A randomized controlled trial by Team Scientist Eugenia South and collaborators tested whether street cleaning reduces gun violence in Philadelphia.
Cleanups reduced visible litter, but did not significantly reduce gun violence or serious crime.
https://bit.ly/4nNMgbm
Learn more about Tatiana Homonoff, an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Service at NYU Wagner and Team Scientist whose research applies behavioral economics to public policy challenges in poverty, taxation, and consumer finance.
Visit her website: https://bit.ly/4dL8eIy
When does punishing free riders help groups cooperate, and when does it backfire?
A Science Magazine paper by Team Scientists @dgrand.bsky.social, Duncan Watts, Abdullah Almaatouq & co-author suggests the answer depends heavily on context.
https://bit.ly/4uqUZm0
A new article by Team Scientists Hengchen Dai, Silvia Saccardo, Kevin Volpp & collaborators synthesizes research on improving health outcomes by redesigning patient & clinician decision environments.
https://bit.ly/4tTHbQ7
A new @nature.com paper co-led by Team Scientist @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social had 457 researchers reanalyze 100 social and behavioral science studies. Most reanalyses reached the original conclusion — but reanalysts fully agreed with each other on only 34% of studies.
https://bit.ly/4fABu5X
A new @pnas.org paper by Co-Director @angeladuckworth.bsky.social, team Scientists Dr. Robert Cialdini & Christophe Van den Bulte, and collaborators finds that across 126,000 conversations, persuasion principles increased LLM compliance with objectionable requests.
https://bit.ly/4uqTk00
Team Scientist podcast roundup:
Greg Walton on Hidden Brain: www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/do-y...
Abby Sussman on Speaking of Psychology www.apa.org/news/podcast...
@rthaler.bsky.social on Choiceology www.schwab.com/learn/story/...
Despite decades of research, the conditions under which punishment promotes cooperation remain unclear. Through an integrative experiment varying 14 design parameters of public goods games across 360 experimental conditions (147,618 decisions from 7100 ...
Learn more about Paschal Sheeran, a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill and Team Scientist whose research explores how people translate intentions into action and what helps them achieve health behavior change.
Visit his website: https://psheeran.web.unc.edu/
A megastudy by Team Scientist Jan G. Voelkel and collaborators tested 12 brief digital mental health programs in 7,505 adults with depression. Nearly all improved how people felt immediately, and 2 significantly reduced depression a month later.
https://go.nature.com/4bV10AJ
In a @jamanetworkopen.com commentary, Team Scientist Mitesh Patel and Joshua Liao argue that health systems should align patient outreach with how people actually communicate today—mobile and asynchronous.
https://bit.ly/4dAPlXl
