Skip to main content

Home/ Bobcat Research Institute 2025/ Group items tagged psychology

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Sean Nash

Study traces an infectious language epidemic | ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • Rho's work is grounded in a social science framework called Fuzzy Trace Theory that was pioneered by Valerie Reyna, a Cornell University professor of psychology and a collaborator on this Virginia Tech project. Reyna has shown that individuals learn and recall information better when it is expressed in a cause and effect relationship, and not just as rote information. This holds true even if the information is inaccurate or the implied connection is weak. Reyna calls this cause-and-effect construction a "gist."
    • Sean Nash
       
      Fuzzy Trace Theory looks interesting for this, and perhaps many other reasons. I want to learn more about this myself, and I'm wondering if this theory could be put to work in other potential behavioral science projects. What do you think?
joshkirkland

Study shows that opportunity costs influence when people leave social interactions - 1 views

  •  
    I like this sort of research. Do you think a game like this is either build-able or perhaps even getting access to the one they used? Is it open source? Can you track down this paper? I'm wondering about tying it to depression, etc. That might drift into territory they might not approve at this age (especially since all participants have paperwork they have to sign off on, and any participants under 18 have to have the paperwork signed off by a parent. I wonder if you might dig into introversion/extroversion and whether that might have an impact on similar things. Seems like it might.
  •  
    This also makes me think of the UCSD juncos... and how they forage longer in stressful environments due to decreased corticosterone levels....... and how that is a key characteristic allowing them to survive in a human-built environment.
Sean Nash

Picture this: Snapping photos of our food could be good for us - 0 views

  • Research reveals taking pictures of food isn't just content for our social media feeds, but could be the key to improving people's diets
    • Sean Nash
       
      I just have a gut feeling that, over time, if you knew you were going to photograph every meal, you would tend to eat less, eat more colorful things, and eat more varied things... so that it would make a better photograph. Each of those elements might just lead to healthier meals over time. Very interesting. It is sort of like imposing a metacognitive approach to food selection.
1 - 3 of 3
Showing 20 items per page