Scott Huettel

@Neurocircuits I read GEB in graduate school... It showed me that deep ideas cross fields (i.e., consilience), and reminded me that fun and whimsy have places in science. I've left a copy face up in a prominent spot on the bookshelf outside my kids' rooms, hoping they pick it up some day.

Excellent advice on effectively conveying your experiences in interviews... When you give examples, present the narrative arc: set up the situation, introduce the tension, describe the action you took, and explain the resolution... insidehighered.com/advice/2021/09…

Only ~55% support mandates. Why? Vaccines are described like seatbelts or motorcycle helmets -- they prevent harm to self -- but we need to reframe them as more like DUI laws, which ~100% support. Vaccines help prevent you from harming others. cnn.com/2021/09/13/pol…

@JMGrohNeuro Great summary and analysis, Jenni! One other potential link in the causal chain: Shooters closed down during Week 3. Who would have thought that eliminating indoor dining and crowded parties at a night club would reduce COVID transmission among students?

Ok, test results: Week 1: 97 +ve Week 2: 95 +ve Week 3: 349 +ve => triggered clampdown on indoor dining Week 4: 105 +ve Comparing week 3 to 2, and week 4 to 3, clamping down on indoor dining reduced our week over week Rt by about twelve fold (from 3.67 to 0.3) 6/

We now have 4 weeks of data since students began returning for the fall semester @duke. A quick summary 1/

I love the description of prospect theory as a "coordination device"!

@utevskya Amanda -- you are (still) awesome! This made my day.

I'm recruiting for two new positions: Postdoctoral Fellow (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19349) and Lab Manager (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19350)! Please forward to folks looking for such positions and/or repost -- these are great opportunities for those interested in decision making & neuroscience.

This is a really important lesson for messaging about COVID risk... We should think not about the existing populations of vaccinated/non-vaccinated, but the delta in risk following vaccination. Some news sources are starting to move in that direction, fortunately.

I really don't understand the algorithms for conference spam emails. I just got one asking me to present on an article from 10 years ago... why would someone write a scraping algorithm that doesn't actually pick recent articles? I feel like trying to help them to fraud better.

@DukePsychNeuro @NeuroscienceNow @DukeTrinity @DukeU @DukeNeuroMajor @DukeBrain @AAMCtoday @Duke_Neurology Congratulations to Len White! You are an inspiration to everyone who cares about neuroscience education. In addition to this recognition for teaching medical students, your service as DUS of our undergraduate neuroscience program has been extraordinary!

Congratulations to faculty member Len White (@NeuroscienceNow), recipient of the 2021 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges! @DukeTrinity @DukeU @DukeNeuroMajor @DukeBrain @AAMCtoday @Duke_Neurology

Yesterday, I announced in class that "office hours will be held over Zoom" and the students started nodding enthusiastically. Unexpected pandemic lesson: Many students really like Zoom office hours -- a low barrier to hop on and ask a question and no traipsing across campus.

Back on campus teaching today... it's been 537 days since I last gave a talk or led a class while wearing shoes.

Remember re vaccination: The goal isn't to change minds, but to change behavior. To holdouts: "Look, you waited until full approval. That shows you're a careful person... and now's the right time to get the vaccine." This is a critical time. arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…

This thread provides wonderful (and laudable) insight into the scientific process, the value of open data, and the importance of (self-)skepticism. @ProfLisaShu deserves kudos for her openness and honesty. My lab will discuss what we can learn from this at our next meeting.

New paper led by @ne_blankenstein and @RosasBrain that tries to understand the (often challenging!) literature on the development of decision making under conditions of economic ambiguity!

Why public libraries are awesome. I wouldn't be surprised if investing in expanded access to libraries would have the highest ROI of any public good.

Glad to share the wonderful book cover with generous quote from Daniel Kahneman. Thanks to many others, and of course inspired by @R_Thaler and @CassSunstein Thanks as well to @riverheadbooks for the design and title help! @penguinrandom on sale Oct. 5th.

Whenever I explained to someone why we need behavioral/decision science, I used examples about investing, gambling, etc. From now on, I think that I'll talk about folks declining the COVID vaccine in favor of an antiparasitic drug given to animals. salon.com/2021/08/09/how…

All tasks, analysis scripts, and data are available via osf.io/623c4/ . 5/5

The results hold for Dictator, Third-Party Punishment, and Trust games -- and are robust to controls for beliefs, personal relatability of the preference statements, etc. 4/N

Vicki Lee's new paper "The hidden cost of humanization: Individuating information reduces prosocial behavior toward in-group members" (w/Rachel Kranton, Piero Conzo, and me) is now out in the Journal of Economic Psychology! 1/N authors.elsevier.com/a/1dXjL_3pkSS6…