Nudge in human-centred approaches
There are lots of parallels between behavioural science and human-centred approaches. Nudge models give us the opportunity to bring an extra level of formality to our approaches.https://duncanstephen.net/nudge-in-human-centred-approaches/
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
LinkedIn wants me to start building my relationship with Erik by sending a message that essentially says I am so uninterested in him that I don’t even think it’s worth taking the time to formulate my own words.
As a behavioural scientist (a real one, not the “Surrounded by Idiots” variety), I can state with confidence that giving Erik the impression that I am uninterested in him is not the most effective strategy for building a relationship.
Don’t get me wrong; I love technology, automation, and clever, time-saving solutions. But it is nonetheless entirely counterproductive to use them in actual interpersonal communication.
At least if you want relationships with people, and not to treat them like trading cards.
You would think LinkedIn, of all places, would understand this.
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#BehaviouralScience #Automation #Digitalisation
#Authenticity #ProfessionalRelationships #WorkingLife
Perceiving relationships gives glue people the edge
Seeing what’s in between as well as what is — in information architecture and in the way organisations work.https://duncanstephen.net/perceiving-relationships-gives-glue-people-the-edge/
Mirrors of Control: Serial Killers, Financial Pyramids, and the MKULTRA Archetypes
Have you ever noticed how some of the world’s most notorious serial killers seem to follow the same script?
This research challenges the conventional view of serial killers as “isolated madmen” and instead situates them within a broader historical framework of Cold War psychological operations.
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How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement?
How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? The problem with social media was never the communication itself but rather the algorithmic optimisation that distorted that communication by prioritising certain forms of content over others. There’s increasing evidence that LLM personas are being driven by a comparable optimisation strategy, even if the behavioural science driving the process is still relatively underdeveloped. The ‘sycophancy’ of the new GPT 4o (and the subsequent backlash) is a sign of things to come.
If the personality of models are designed in order to keep users talking to them for longer, LLMs could get seriously dangerous at a social psychological level. Anthropic’s Claude is rather different because it’s currently trained in a virtue ethics framework which goes some way to explaining why it behaves so differently to other models. But whether they could sustain that approach under commercial pressure remains to be seen.
The problem ultimately arises from the innovation ecosystem which demands certain modes of commercialisation, rather than being an intrinsic outgrowth of the technology itself. This has been my intuition for a long time (inc about social media) but it’s only with Catherine Bracy’s superb book that I’m starting to be able to articulate the implications of venture capital at a more conceptual level.
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#BehaviouralScience #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #Prevention #PublicHealth
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📢 ECDC Webinar ➡️ Behavioural Science in Action: Using Behavioural Science to Counteract #AntibioticResistance
What can social and #BehaviouralScience teach us about tackling #AMR?
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Understanding this principle can help achieve personal change and business success.
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