Dan Goldstein

In @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Team Scientists @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social, @dggoldst.bsky.social & @dilipsoman.bsky.social and Susan Michie argue that improving how we study nudges—through better design, collaboration, and open science—can help us learn when and where they’re most effective.

Older voters, whether working or drawing down their nest egg, would care about this.

So either these effects of tariffs won't happen or, if they do, older voters will move towards the center

So tariffs
i) decrease your net worth through stock market declines
ii) decrease your purchasing power through price increases
iii) increase your retirement age because of i and ii

I will not take your survey for a chance at a gift card but if you give me a gift card I will take your survey with some probability

Would be funny if you guys picked up the melodramatic facial expressions and over the top body language of telenovelas

I think that they are already pretty good at English in the UK

I lived in Germany and got fairly proficient at German by buying old American movies that were dubbed into German for a few bucks at the bargain bin at my local video store. Because I knew the movies extremely well in English, the dubbing taught me thousands of useful phrases w/o a dictionary.

European countries that subtitle rather than dub English-language TV content have better English skills. This paper argues the effect is causal and large: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

cc @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social

Generalizability of choice architecture interventions - Nature Reviews Psychology Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

New paper just dropped:

Szaszi, Barnabas, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dilip Soman, Susan Michie. (2025). Generalizability of Choice Architecture Interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology.

Thanks to @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social for doing the lion's share!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ok!

Like you can read machine language code?

DMs open!

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This is a terrible outcome.

In my research, I've shown the subscription cancellation problem is big

The click-to-cancel rule was poised to make meaningful progress on this problem

Now we're back to the sludge

The result will be less competition, higher prices, and lower quality.

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @theeconomistevents.bsky.social this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

I literally turned off the auto upgrade function (on AA) because this kept happening with my kid. We were just as happy in coach with extended legroom.

I thought that in statistics you can only be 1 / (1+e^-x) official

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move slow and fix things

Fantastic that this will be in Montreal! Congrats to our colleague Su Lin Blodgett!

I, and I imagine you, very much appreciate the sandpaper grit numbering system: Roughly number of particles per square inch

It's even worse because gauge is inversely related to diameter

Spanish Class Appropriate Joke

Juan: Do bears get tired?
Pilar: They get oso tired

11yo daughter: What's a talk show?

Me: One of those TV shows where someone at a desk interviews a guest sitting next to them

11yo: So like a visual podcast?

Bold prediction!

To put that into perspective that's more than half the size of California

Is Python going to become vastly more popular than R for statistics and data science? Has it already?