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This past year at The Hunting Dynasty, our blog has been a journey through the surprising landscape of human behaviour.
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Dive into our blog archives – you might find the near-costless lever that unlocks your next big win.
#BehaviouralScience #HumanBehaviour

Read--> The 18 Most Influential Behavioral Economics Books (2025).
These 18 books (there’s a 6a and 6b on there which is why the last number is 17!) offer a comprehensive introduction to the field of #behavioraleconomics...

www.thehuntingdynasty.com/2025/02/the-...

image of blog page titled 'Beyond readability scores: unlocking true comprehension in communication'

BLOG, 5 min read: Our aim shouldn’t be merely to make text *appear* simple but to ensure it’s *truly* comprehensible (as comprehension is the real goal) --> 'Beyond readability scores: unlocking true comprehension in communication'

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Last chance to apply for a #PhD position supevised by my colleague Bruno Lanz. Highly recommended! www.unine.ch/seco/wp-cont...
#econsky

This update by Jason Collins of his “Critical behavioural economics and behavioural science reading list” is well worth perusing for papers, articles, blogs and comments, and books on a multitude of topics in the field that you might have missed. 👏
https://buff.ly/418tdNI

Study by Collisson et al identifies what specific behaviours trigger "the ick"—sudden aversion towards a romantic partner—and how traits like disgust sensitivity, narcissism and perfectionism relate to experiencing it: https://buff.ly/42L83b9

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Free Speech Some distinctions to keep in mind

Cass Sunstein on free speech and the three kinds of restrictions it faces: viewpoint-based, content-based, and content-neutral #BehaviouralScience

Choice Architecture

What does Choice Architecture tell us? Everything communicates – words, images, spaces (real or virtual), timing. To the point where there is *no* choice to neutrally communicate --> find out more, inc. your AI copy and paste text thehuntingdynasty.com/2025/02/choi...

Research by Olschewski et al suggests, when choosing between risky options, we are sensitive to opportunity costs, but not to prior information about potential rewards—using less evidence (and hence less time/effort) as time elapsed regardless: https://buff.ly/4135Pl1

A call for precision in the study of behaviour and decision - Nature Human Behaviour By definition, behavioural and decision scientists study behaviour and decision — but they rarely define these concepts, which results in divergent interpretations across studies. Researchers should g...

🆕 A call for precision in the study of behaviour and decision

Behavioural & decision scientists should provide precise definitions of 'behaviour' & 'decision' for more effective & ethical interventions, argue @krpd.bsky.social, @bfasolo.bsky.social & Luc Schneider 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Despite instructions to the contrary (and against legal doctrine requiring an objective standard based solely on actions), jurors consistently incorporate defendants’ mental state when judging negligence, particularly awareness of risks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723…

Coalitions are everywhere Introduction to the psychology and game theory of coalitions

Coalitional psychology and game theory are rarely discussed together. In this post, I combine an introduction to both topics for anyone interested in understanding how we navigate the complex web of social interactions.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/coalitions...

Deliberately harm one person to save multiple others? The trolley problem is a simple dilemma, but our motivations are way more complex, a real-life version reveals.
There’s more to it than utilitarian or deontological moral calculus, writes Dries Bostyn: https://buff.ly/3QcAx6d

Behavioural Science AI Prompt Catalysts

Some choice Behavioural Science AI Prompt Catalysts to grab here! --> Generating text with particular characteristics, updating text with behavioural tactics, Pre mortems, and valid test approaches, too.
#AI #AIprompts
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MORGAN STANLEY: “.. How many of you reading this report have seen a robot today? Like an actual robot moving autonomously ..?” [Jonas]

A New Way to Test AI for Sentience: Make It Confront Pain A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare

Previous studies of AI sentience have used the dubious methodology of self-reporting to buttress their claims. The studies described here employ the equally dubious framework of behaviorism. It's a topic worth pondering.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

User Behavior Analysis using Gen-AI | Security Copilot and Entra Cyber security incidents often require entity analysis to understand blast radius, to investigate deeper, to take containment actions, to…

User Behavior Analysis using Gen-AI | Security Copilot and Entra medium.com/@shrutiai...

#CopilotforSecurity #SecurityCopilot #Cybersecurity #MicrosoftSecurity #Security #GenerativeAI

18 Personality Tests described and reviewed

Have you ever taken a personality test and been surprised by the results? Or maybe you’ve aced every Myers-Briggs test and swear by its accuracy...

What you need is a review – here's one! --> '18 Personality Tests described and reviewed' thehuntingdynasty.com/2025/01/18-p...

There's three of them here as a trial www.thehuntingdynasty.com/category/cop... under a category heading – go see, what do you think?

Trying an interesting thing with blogs - adding prompt code as 'Copy & Paste this into your preferred AI', to generate solutions based on the principles in the blog.
Try this one --> "🔍The 4 Secrets of Testing: Valid, Reliable, Norm, Fair" thehuntingdynasty.com/2025/01/the-...
#AI #Behavior

Your key holiday 2024/2025 break blogs are here:

1. Gifting (for the last min people amongst us!)
2. Having a good break (also with a classic clip from Withnail And I :))
3. New Year's resolutions
4. Wellness ongoing

Everything you need! -->
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Very interesting and accessible take on probability worth a read!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revisiting Stereotype Threat A Reckoning for Social Psychology

Stereotype threat: a once-dominant idea in social psychology that shaped how we think about identity and performance. But what happens when the evidence crumbles? A deep dive into the failed replications, the myths, and what it all means. Read my latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

Craving a break? We all are. But there are some surprising secrets: the magic might not lie solely in the escape itself. Find out about anticipation, peak-end, fresh starts... in our 4 min read 'How to have a good break! We all need it' www.thehuntingdynasty.com/2024/12/how-...

Short blog on 'How to choose the perfect gift in 3 easy steps'

How to choose the perfect gift in 3 easy steps!
1. Decide upon a single, well-thought through gift
2. Give something that’s practical and usable for the recipient
3. Consider arranging an experience or event
Read more -->
www.thehuntingdynasty.com/2019/12/how-...

Blog post: A fun one! – 5mins reading on the STRANGE origins of Michelin Guide, Mr Kipling cakes, and a Ploughman’s lunch – and how to use that for ANY organisation --> www.thehuntingdynasty.com/2024/10/amaz...

The metaphors of artificial intelligence A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".

The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.

Hope you will check it out!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....