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ICYMI: Why We Should Crowdsource AI Ethics (and How to Do So Responsibly)
We asked three million people how self-driving cars should resolve moral dilemmas. Was that a good idea?
An earthquake in Lisbon launched the âHumanitarian Big Bangââwhen recovery and aid went from being a local problem to a global one. Hereâs how đ
In 1755, an earthquake in Lisbon changed the way we think about our place in the world and our obligation to others suffering, even in countries far away.
This yearâs election poses voting hurdles for even the most experienced and loyal voters. But if we learn from other voting newbiesâstudentsâwe have the chance to overcome the electoral challenges brought about by the pandemic. #vote2020
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles.
As humanitarian aid shuttles around the world in response to coronavirus and other disasters, we don't think twice that this is the way it is. But it was in 1755 that an earthquake in Lisbon changed forever the way we think about humanityâs place in the world and our obligation to others suffering in distant lands.
In 1755, an earthquake in Lisbon changed the way we think about our place in the world and our obligation to others suffering, even in countries far away.
If we fail to fully appreciate the consequences of the changed context of voting this year, participation in this yearâs election could suffer a heavy blow...unless we learn from student voters. #VoteReady
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles.
âFor decades, people throughout Europe and the New World walked around with the âLisbon Questionâ on their lips: If horrors like Lisbon can happen, what kind of world are we living in? And how should we live in it?â
In 1755, an earthquake in Lisbon changed the way we think about our place in the world and our obligation to others suffering, even in countries far away.
For student voters, voting (even during normal times) can feel new, unfamiliar, and potentially even scary. That makes them the ideal group to learn from for how to prompt voter turnout during a pandemicâwhen voting feels new and scary to all of us.
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles.
"The Problem with Love Is Deciding Whoâs Doing the Dishes" by @p_a_marino for @aeonmag, plus more or what we're reading this week: https://buff.ly/2FQfHqw
From the archives: The Need for Nuance in the Tech Use Debate: A Conversation with Amy Orben https://buff.ly/3mCVLdf
What do we know now and how can we learn more about how social media impacts our relationships and day-to-day lives?
If you've watched "The Social Dilemma" recently, you may be interested in our special issue on the intersection of technology and behavior: Connected State of Mind
Over the next three weeks, weâll bring you an in-depth look at our relationship with technology, with an eye for how we use our smartphones and social media.
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles so that everyone who can cast a vote actually does so.
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles.
Weâre All New Voters Now đŹ
By Tom Tasche
This election year will bring unexpected hurdles for even the most experienced voters. Learning from student voters can help address these obstacles.
We might take it for granted that when a disaster strikes a country, international aid will play a major role in the recovery. But this hasnât always been a given. In this excerpt from his new book, Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough recounts the disasterâan earthquake in Lisbonâthat kickstarted the trend of international humanitarian aid.
In 1755, an earthquake in Lisbon changed the way we think about our place in the world and our obligation to others suffering, even in countries far away.
âFor governments and business managers,â writes Tobias Baer, âexpunging algorithmic bias becomes a circular problem. The only data they have to develop algorithms is shaped by the very bias they are fighting.â
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
âBehavioral insights projects could draw on human-centered design more in three main ways,â write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman.
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
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From the archives: The Psychology of Search Engines â a graphic history examining how technology changes what we know and what we *think* we know.
By psychologist Danny Oppenheimer and artist Grady Klein https://buff.ly/2mV1tNI
Don't write it down, you'll forget! Don't use Google, you'll forget! Psychologist Danny Oppenheimer and artist Grady Klein present an illustrated story on the psychology of search engines.
The behavioral insights approach to design has often been top-down. A priority moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms of behavioral change, write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman. One promising way of doing so is to adapt principles from human centered design.
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
How Algorithms Can Fight Bias Instead of Entrench It
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
The Future of Behavioral Insights Demands Human-Centered Design â By Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
Applied behavioral science has been at times too top-down, write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman. As the field develops, it must continue to incorporate new ways of understanding people and behavior change, they argue.
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
âThe behavioral insights approach to design has often been quite top-down: principles of behavior have been used to embed certain ways of acting into the local environment or context. Designing from principles in this way can be successful (see the iPod), but it has also been criticized for not paying enough attention to users.â Hereâs how to change that đ
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
Human centered design can help drive the future of behavioral insights, write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman. Hereâs how đ
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle deep-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
How can we build algorithms that correct for biased data and that live up to the promise of equitable decision-making?
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
âBehavioral insights projects could draw on human-centered design more in three main ways,â write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman.
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
âFor governments and business managers,â writes Tobias Baer, âexpunging algorithmic bias becomes a circular problem. The only data they have to develop algorithms is shaped by the very bias they are fighting.â
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
âHuman-centered design can go a long way toward engaging behavioral insights with human agency more deeply,â write Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman, âmoving it further away from a mechanistic worldview, and opening up new frontiers.â
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
âWe think a priority is for the behavioral insights approach to incorporate new thinking on more reflexive, more dynamic and nuanced forms of change. One promising way of doing so is to adapt principles from human centered design.â â Michael Hallsworth & Elspeth Kirkman
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
Algorithms are efficient, effective, and often less expensive than human decision-makers. But that can come with a costâalgorithms can perpetuate deep-seated societal biases, like racial and gender biases. Tobias Baer makes the case that it algorithms can help fight both kinds of bias.
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
In their new book, Michael Hallsworth and Elspeth Kirkman take stock of the last ten years of applied behavioral science and imagine where it could go. In this excerpt, they make the case for more human centered design in the behavioral insights approach.
The behavioral approach to design has often been top-down, but moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms.
The upside of algorithms is that they can help remove the cognitive biases that plague human decision-makers. The downside is that they can further entrench societal biases. Tobias Baer argues that doesnât have to be the case. Algorithms can be agents of change against bias.
The algorithms we implement could become tools to help tackle even deeper-seated societal biases, such as notorious racial and gender biases.
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The Behavioral Scientist is a non-profit digital magazine. Our mission is to make the valuable insights gathered from behavioral science accessible and useful to society. We publish commentaries and conversations on current events, culture, and research. Each week, we send our email edition, featur...
From the archives: The Psychology of Search Engines â a graphic history examining how technology changes what we know and what we *think* we know.
By psychologist Danny Oppenheimer and artist Grady Klein https://buff.ly/2mV1tNI
Don't write it down, you'll forget! Don't use Google, you'll forget! Psychologist Danny Oppenheimer and artist Grady Klein present an illustrated story on the psychology of search engines.
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