#BehavioralScience is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 20 people shared 60 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is down 56% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 15 with 8 posts.

Posts with #BehavioralScience

Kim Hằng Nguyễn

@kimhangnguyen.com

over 1 year ago

Do you remember when you first started taking photos? I don’t. But I’m lucky to have a hint. I found this photo years ago, and it feels like a glimpse into how I saw myself as a kid. Maybe it’s time for a little intro? #photography #behavioralscience #childhood #art #psychology #streetphotography

A toddler seems to hold a camera and take photo in the afternoon

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Stefan Herzog

@stefanherzog.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇

The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads:

Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.

List with summary points:

1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice.
2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects.
3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy.
4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes.
5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires.
6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments.
7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches.
8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.

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Kim Hằng Nguyễn

@kimhangnguyen.com

over 1 year ago

Hiking down to Ooh Aah Point. Grand Canyon. From behavioral science research, awe makes us feel less rushed, more generous toward others, and less focused on ourselves. #behavioralscience #research #photography #landscapephotography #scape #grandcanyon

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Wilhelm Hofmann

@wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

📢 New commentary out today in Nature Human Behaviour! We argue that behavior change interventions often suffer from a one-sided success focus. But failures may reveal structural barriers people face. 🔗 rdcu.be/ex8hR #BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy

Comment: Rethinking behavior change interventions in policymaking

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen

@kristiansn89.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍 Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇 #ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability

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Xiaosi Gu

@xiaosigu.bsky.social

4 months ago

Excited to share our new paper proposing a new computational model accounting for the dynamic interaction btw drug #craving and #decision-making, led by Kaustubh Kulkarni, MD/PhD rdcu.be/fab6B #AddictionScience #Neuroscience #ComputationalPsychiatry #BehavioralScience

www.nature.com

A computational mechanism linking momentary craving and decision-making in alcohol drinkers and cannabis users - Nature Mental Health

This study investigated the computational mechanisms linking momentary craving and decision-making in people with moderate to high addiction risk levels for alcohol or cannabis use, uncovering differe...

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Rémi Thériault

@remi-theriault.com

almost 2 years ago

For too long, #behavioralscience has drawn insights from a narrow pool, leaving out voices from the Global South. I'm super excited to reveal the Missing Majority Dashboard, which @psforscher.bsky.social and I developed to shine light on this critical gap and track representation in key journals.

Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social

Introducing the Missing Majority dashboard, an automatically updating resource that tracks the global representation of behavioral science first authors over time. remi-theriault.com/dashboards/m... Wanna know how your favorite journal performs? Check it out 😁 Let us know what you think!

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Stefano Gandolfi 甘昊然

@ste0.bsky.social

8 months ago

Yesterday I earned my PhD in Health Science, Technology, and Management at Scuola Sant’Anna. My dissertation explored vaccine hesitancy, clinical guidelines, health innovation, and digital health through the lens of applied behavioral science. 🧪🛟 #PhD #BehavioralScience #HealthScience

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Kim Hằng Nguyễn

@kimhangnguyen.com

over 1 year ago

I've always been fascinated by the ritual implications of holidays like St. Patrick's Day. Simply wearing green serves as a community connector that span cultures and generations. #StreetPhotography #behavioralscience #culture #StPatrick’sDay #photography #candid #behsci #blueskyphotographers

A Shamrock Sign with Happy St Patrick’s Day on a windows car. There is a dad with his daughter on his shoulder and other people hanging around on the background.

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Anthropology.net

@anthropology.net

9 months ago

New comparative research suggests kissing evolved in the great apes and likely occurred in Neanderthals. What seems like a cultural habit may be an ancient primate social tool. #Anthropology #Primatology #HumanEvolution #BehavioralScience www.anthropology.net/p/th….

www.anthropology.net

The Ape Kiss: What a New Comparative Study Reveals About the Ancient Roots of Mouth-to-Mouth Affection

A sweeping look at how kissing emerged in large apes, why Homo neanderthalensis probably kissed too, and what primate behavior can teach us about the evolution of intimacy.

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Kristian Roed Nielsen

@roednielsen.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

📢We are looking for a new #PhD colleague📚📢 Open call for a 3-year PhD on the #green #transition and #sustainability at the #CBS Sustainability Center. #behavioralscience applications are very welcome! @drtanusreejain.bsky.social | @katharinehayhoe.com | @jakereynolds.bsky.social

www.cbs.dk

PhD scholarship in Green Transition and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant PhD scholarship in Green Transition and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication. The expected start date...

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TheBehaviourForum.org

@thebehaviourforum.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

📣 Open call to neuroscience, ethology & behavioral societies! 📣 Add www.TheBehaviourForum.org to newsletters, PhD schools, and resource lists. Let’s boost collaboration! Share widely with your networks & organizations. 🌐 🧪🧠📈🐭🐾 #Neuroscience #BehavioralScience #OpenScience #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology