Jared Peterson
@jaredpeterson.bsky.social
Cognitive science | Naturalistic Decision Making | behavior change | jtpeterson.substack.com
I don't post everything I write on BlueSky, but I think this piece may resonate with a few of you. It is for those interested in the backstory of the debate, why it matters, and whether it is even a scientific question to ask whether people are rational.
Are people rational? And is that even a meaningful question?
Or why I think expertise is the better way to understand normative decision-making
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Rational Choice Theory has been a short-cut to nowhere for the field. We need to re-think the ‘drosophila of decision science’ jtpeterson.substack.com/p/the-drosop...
The Drosophila of Decision Science
A response to 'Choose Wisely' by Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei
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Got a nice honorable mention from Experimental History🐐
New article on context and the psychological paradigm, arguing that the boundaries we have put around "psychology" are in the wrong place. What we have dismissed as context is actually content. jtpeterson.substack.com/p/rethinking...
Rethinking the Edges of the Mind – Part I
What is context? Why is it so hard to study? Can we redraw the boundaries of psychology so that context becomes content?
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The behaviors, problems, and outcomes that impact your customers most usually don't happen inside your product. Listen to @jaredpeterson.bsky.social describe how #UX and #prodmgmt often neglect what happens outside the product. www.productcoalition.com/p/behavioura...
Behavioural Science and Strategy Alignment
In this episode of the Product Coalition podcast, Jay Stansell interviews Jared Peterson, a behavioral scientist and co-founder of Nuance Behavior.
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To those interested in the science of decision-making, here is a primer on the main schools of thought, the personalities behind them, and some resources for learning more. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Many Schools of the Great Rationality Debate
A war of acronyms and personalities
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Has anyone done a comprehensive analysis of factors that people think are, or think should be, ethically relevant when doing triage? eg likelihood of survival is relevant, some think "woman and children first", most think race is irrelevant, etc.
Cognitive Turn people. Are any of you reading about Naturalistic Decision Making? Started reading *A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice* and thought, "this is just a math-y version of Dataframe Theory of Sensemaking, and Recognition Primed Decision-Making.
Newly published follow-up article to the #BehavioralScience framework tier list series I've been doing the past few months. Curious to hear your thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/jtpeters...
Cool to see lots of ppl getting excited about “Science Goodreads”! (x.com/sanjehorah/s...) Why it doesn’t exist yet is an interesting rabbit hole I went down a few years ago (which also resulted in me joining the @asterainstitute.bsky.social Open Science fellowship) >
Kahneman would resist so long as he can't see it because wysiati Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake Freud would be torn, but Id would win Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
paolo@paolopalma.bsky.social · 2y agoname a famous psychologist who would resist the One Ring
Only someone as uninterested in the ring as Bombadil could resist the One Ring and throw it in Mount Doom. But such a person would never care enough to try. Basically, no one with main character energy could ever fulfill the quest. Which is why it falls to the unlikeliest of creatures; hobbits 1/
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/
We did interviews with multiple people who refused to turn their camera on, responded with a delay, and even asked us to put the questions in the chat. Super obvious they were using an LLM. But it shocked us. They thought they could get away with pretending to be a medic during a live interview!
Sylvia Perry@sylviapperry.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re collecting open-ended data on Prolific, and it has become clear to me that people are using chatGPT to answer the questions. This is so depressing. Like, is it really worth the time to copy and paste questions and answers instead of just…telling us what you think?
Over the past couple months I have been doing a tier list of #BehavioralScience frameworks. It generated lots of really great discussion with many disagreements. Here is an updated and centralized resource for all the rankings. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ranking Behavioral Science Frameworks
A tier list of various behavior change frameworks that are popular in the field of Behavioral Science.
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This is a really useful heuristic that I also use. For many academics, everything is a nail to be hit by their particular hammer. And if you criticize the hammer, the same defensive mechanisms are always present
Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 2y agoAll this is to say, the moment I can guess what someone’s response is to any form of criticism without the peculiarities of the criticism itself I kinda discount what it is they’re selling.
Does anyone have suggestions for feeds to follow that haven't been overtaken by politics? I came here to discuss research and philosophy, not for political platitudes and rage posting
I just got the kids down for naptime so I wanted to take a second to point out two key problems (and a few areas of agreement) I see with this morning’s @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytimes.com article about effective altruism: 🧵 bsky.app/profile/nyt...
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Effective altruism, the recent trend in philanthropy, has been to look for the most bang for your buck. Maybe you don’t have to, Emma Goldberg argues. https://nyti.ms/41GHinN
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This is a hard question because the way we (I?) think about BehEcon has changed so much System 1/2 don't exist, but it's a useful distinction. Biases aren't as systematic as we thought, and don't imply irrationality, but nevertheless represent true deviations from economic models 1/
Gavin Jackson@gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2y agoWhich bits of behavioural economics have best stood the test of time?
Three formal arguments for why there cannot be a finite set of cognitive biases. The lack of a finite set of biases is one reason I believe Heuristics and Biases cannot survive long term as a prescriptive paradigm. A paradigm of deviations must eventually collapse under its own weight.
Read that new Gigerenzer paper and really enjoyed it. Mostly agree with everything. The Cold War context was interesting and new to me. But at some point it would be really nice if someone actually surveyed HB and FF researchers about what they actually believe
Very curious how others feel about the idea that trailing elipses are a dark pattern.
Emily Liu@emilyliu.me · 2y agothis context is important and missing from a lot of articles that cover bluesky / threads - bluesky: $0 marketing spend - threads: injects posts directly into instagram feeds with dark patterns (like trailing `...` instead of the full post) that incentivize users to download the app
What percentage of published social psychology research do you believe reflects a true and justified insight? By 'true,' I mean findings that accurately capture some aspect of human nature. By 'justified,' I mean studies that are well-designed and methodologically sound. (Ignore Gettier)
New article on the misleading labels of Behavioral Science. In it I critique five labels that made the field popular; nudge, behavior change, empirically tested solutions, bias, irrationality. All misleading or narrowing in their own way www.nuancebehavior.com/work/the-mis...
The Misleading Labels of Behavioral Science – Five Concepts to Better Understand
The Misleading Labels of Behavioral Science – Five Concepts to Better Understand. This article includes five important (but unpopular) opinions concerning five core concepts—not to discredit Behavior...
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It's taken many years, but chemistry is finally beginning to catch up with cutting-edge advances from psychological science.
This is a good schelling point to rally around. And I'll add "reshare 1 thing" to the list
Nathan@handle.invalid · 2y agoIf you want this platform to succeed, my advice would be to post 1 thing and reply to 2 things. I like aliveness, and content and interaction feel alive.
List of Psychology Starter Packs on FB. Feel free to share with your FB friends, and yell if you want me to add your pack to the list. www.facebook.com/share/p/15JC...
Fun visual illusion! The rectangle on the left is bigger, but years of seeing this kind of stuff has broken vision scientists' brains into saying they are actually the same.
