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Monthly Archive July, 2018

Geisinger seeks Research Director for its Applied Behavioral Insights Team

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CHANCE TO WORK WITH MICHELLE MEYER AND CHRIS CHABRIS Geisinger Health System seeks an outstanding behavioral scientist to serve as Research Director for its newly-launched Applied Behavioral Insights @ Geisinger Team. The ABIG Team was created to apply behavioral science methods to the design, implementation, and evaluation of “nudges”—lightweight behavioral interventions intended to improve outcomes […]

It’s not the heat, it’s the heat index (Celsius edition)

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PERCEIVED TEMPERATURE (CELSIUS EDITION) Click to enlarge (If you would like to see the Fahrenheit version of this post, please go here.) So, we were wondering, what’s this heat index we hear about? We went to the Wikipedia article on it. It is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity to convert a […]

JDM Pre-Conference at SPSP Feb 7, 2019

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE DECEMBER 1 2018 The 14th annual Judgment and Decision Making Pre-Conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting will be held from 8:30am to 4:30pm on February 7th, 2019 in Portland, OR. Registration is now open. The pre-conference will explore both foundational and groundbreaking ideas at the intersection of social […]