Congratulations to Dr. Berivan Ece in our group for winning best poster at @NUFeinbergMed Havey Global Health Day for her work on "Training and Capacity Building in Patient Centered Outcomes for HIV Care in Tanzania"! @NUFeinbergMSS
Congrats to @EmilyHHo, PhD for being selected by the NIH ECHO Program Office as 1 of 12 investigators to receive funding through ECHO Opportunities and Innovation Fund (OIF)! Her project will validate remote neurocognitive assessments for children 3 using the V3 NIH Toolbox App!
"This is a book, and an issue, that should not be deliberately ignored." In The American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 135, Iss. 3), @EmilyHHo George Loewenstein, @NickJChater review "Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know" (@mitpress 2020). scholarlypublishingcollectiv…
PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I am on the job market this year! My personal website with CV is: dennievandolder.com.
As it's not the best time to be on the market, a thread on who I am and why your department should invite me for a skype-out and not miss the opportunity to hire me!
🚨Working paper alert!🚨
"Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds"
We find that 10 laypeople rating just headlines match performance of professional fact-checkers researching full articles- using set of URLs flagged by internal FB algorithm
psyarxiv.com/9qdza/
"Professor Ho defend your research!" 😁 Interview about information avoidance with @tom_stackpole in @HarvardBiz, out online now and in print for the September issue
We widely prefer to remain ignorant about information that would benefit us when it’s painful—and sometimes when it’s pleasurable scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam
Discovered this wonderful podcast when the hosts of @ParsingScience - Ryan Watkins @gwtweets and Doug Leigh @pepperdine invited me on to talk about a recent Management Science paper ...
Episode 76 out now! @EmilyHHo from @MSSatNU discusses her research into why some people choose to remain ignorant of information that - while unpleasant - could help them make better informed decisions in the future.
Article @ parsing.science/e.hoparsing.science/e76
Listen in link above for the inside story on how scale development actually happens, predictive validity, and how I tricked friends and family into taking my scale. Thanks again to @ParsingScience for hosting!
Article on upcoming guest @EmilyHHo's questionnaire measuring people's tendencies to remain ignorant of information that - while unpleasant - may help make better informed decisions in the future.
Take the quiz yourself here: cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo…futurity.org/avoiding-the-tr…
Do you want to know *everything* you could find out about yourself—eg genetic predisposition or what others really think of you? No, neither do I. @EmilyHHo et al developed a scale to measure information preferences, and it’s pretty cool: buff.ly/2XEXZ1E HT @davidhagmann
🍾New paper on "Measuring Information Preferences" with George Loewenstein & @EmilyHHo now out in Management Science.🎉We develop & validate a psychological scale and learn something about information, risk & time preferences along the way. 1/6 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/1…
In our paper "Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes", we show that men and women's willingness to compete depends on the gender of their opponent. Women avoid competing against men, and men exploit this in strategic interactions. Download link: bit.ly/2Ss4Dpb
Not believing in climate science is not based on facts, but "on wholesale rejection of what they perceive to be the only solutions - such as a carbon tax-and the fact that they believe those solutions pose a greater threat to their identity, their privilege and their well-being"
My answer to Why haven’t the horrendous bushfires in Australia which have now claimed lives and hundreds of houses caused people to believe in climate change? quora.com/Why-haven-t-the-ho…
Going against conventional wisdom, a recent @NatureClimate paper shows discussing full extent of scientific uncertainty may misfire on public.
W/ David Budescu, I wrote accompanying @NatureNews commentary discussing #scicomm challenges in #climatechangebit.ly/37MKZKd
#Climatechange is vague, contains multidimensional uncertainties that covary and interact with each other... easy for public to confuse 'irreducible uncertainty' w/ scientific disagreement
nature.com/articles/s41558-0…