Joshua Becker

Joshua Becker

@joshuabecker.bsky.social

Associate Professor focused on #collectiveintelligence and #negotiation at UCL School of Management // previously Kellogg School of Mgmt, Annenberg Penn School of Comm, Community Mediation, AmeriCorps // only following identifiable people

610 Followers 377 Following 248 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 weeks ago

What do you think is the opposite of stoicism?

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3 weeks ago

unfortunately i see it used all the time

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3 weeks ago

but cf. many papers in practice, e.g. those by Clegg et al.

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3 weeks ago
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Literally the word means "compare" but according to Wikipedia that type of use would be non-standard. Traditionally if you want to refer to something similar, you would say "see also".

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3 weeks ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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3 weeks ago

PSA -----
(1) "extant" means "surviving" so when you say "extant literature" you're implying some literature has been lost.
(2) "cf." or "confer" means "see in contrast" not "see as example" so you're implying that the citation gives different argument than the present text.

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8 months ago
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8 months ago

ChatGPT nailed it: "your concern is not anti-psychology. It’s pro-science."

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9 months ago

yes i HAVE wondered this!!!

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9 months ago

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻

Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

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9 months ago
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IF ONLY

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9 months ago

i'm afraid there's nothing i can do 😢 one of only two comments (from 80 students) on my negotiation class evaluation: “The only bad thing of the course was the low attendance”

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9 months ago

I've discovered an unexpected benefit of the MESO (multiple equivalent simultaneous offers) in landlord negotiations, when they tried to give us a contract that didn't reflect our agreement: "...which was your choice, not ours."

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10 months ago

I have a credit dispute with my coauthor. Each of us denies coming up with Equation 1, and thinks the other person did it.

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10 months ago

wow that is a seriously nostalgic website. i remember when CSS didn't exist.

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10 months ago

hmm are you predicting my future? we haven't done the proceedings yet....

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10 months ago

EasyChair is ....... not so easy.

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10 months ago

using the AI to add the progress bar to the script using the AI to do the literature review.

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10 months ago
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Social Physics and Collective Intelligence "Social Physics" and Collective Intelligence Additional Resources Coursera Course on Network Dynamics of Social Behavior: https://gb.coursera.org/learn/networkdynamics Methodology At their most...

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10 months ago

on the importance of theory

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10 months ago

On the usefulness of AI+CI research results in a fast-changing landscape: "If we root ourselves more to first principles of collective intelligence rather than focusing on current capabilities of LLMs, we’re future proofing our perspective"
- Jason Burton, just a moment ago

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10 months ago

and yes, the two laggards are indeed harming my career prospects.

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10 months ago

i suspect these numbers vary by field norms and ambition: with those values, all my papers would be published in PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Management Science, or Academy of Management Journal.

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10 months ago

so even 5 max would assume that all my papers are published in top-tier journals. that's true, but only because the struggling papers haven't been published yet as they are still working through the system =P

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10 months ago

sure yeah you can normalize, change the numbers, whatever but---i suspect we require a large number of reviews for each paper published, on average.

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10 months ago

i'm going to go through all the top-tier journals before i give up and go to a 2nd tier journal.

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10 months ago

If I submit my paper to 5 journals before it gets published, and each journal requires 3 reviewers, thats 15 reviewers per paper. Is everybody completing as many reviews as they require from others? Or are some people carrying the lions share of the burden?

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10 months ago

Negotiating with my landlord for lease renewal. Offered them a MESO. Targeted their interests. Gestured at rights. Keeping power in my pocket. Thanks, negotiation theory!!

Coming soon: the response.

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11 months ago

I guess in this case, I honestly find it hard to tell the difference between cruelty, stupidity, and an extremely radical anti-globalist agenda.

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11 months ago

If intention is at all relevant to cruelty it's kind of irrelevant whether it's a good strategy, vs whether the perpetrator thinks its a good strategy. Unless cruelty is in the eye of the beholder and not the perp, I suppose. In which case I suppose it's entirely up to you, and I have no opinion.

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