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New paper out exploring the connection between numeracy, income and life satisfaction. People high in numeracy gain more life satisfaction from income and have a higher income satiation point for life satisfaction. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Excited to see CAIDe lab's own Eliza Lawrence and her story and #SciComm research featured! shootsreinhard Pär Bjälkebring Dave Markowitz Michael Silverstein Raleigh Goodwin Hayley Svensson Martin Tusler and our other amazing lab members! UO Journalism & Comm University of Oregon around.uoregon.edu/what-will-your…

The rise and fall of rationality After the year 1850, the use of words associated with fact-based (vs. emotional) arguments rose steadily in books and the The New York Times But the pattern reversed in the 1980s, and emotion-based arguments accelerated around 2007. pnas.org/content/118/51…

"Eugene is a hotbed of research in decision making and science communication, and that's largely because of Paul Slovic” #JDM registerguard.com/story/news/202…

Excited to share that my research with KrajbichLab, Steph Smith and Jan Hausfeld (not on Twitter) was published in PNAS paper today! Tweet-thread soon to come, but for now here's a summary article at ZME Science zmescience.com/science/news-s…

New Science Magazine Podcast: Finland puts the finishing touches on the world’s first high-level permanent nuclear repository w/ @inspiringsci, and why being good at math might make you both happy and sad Pär Bjälkebring science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ed Yong speaking UO Journalism & Comm University of Oregon "Instead of asking "What's my risk?" I've tried to ask "What's my contribution to everyone's risk?""

With his recent Bower Award, Paul Slovic has joined Marie Curie, Orville Wright, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein as a Franklin Institute Award laureate. Read more about the award and his incredible work here: psychology.uoregon.edu/news-faculty-a…

nice paper by Ellen Peters about the power of numeric self-efficacy. many medical decisions and behaviors require persistence to be successful over time. #MDMTwitter journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Great contribution to science on emotion-driven choosing in breast cancer treatment. Led by Michael Silverstein, it's his very first first-authored publication!! UOPsych University of Oregon

Very excited to share my first preprint of graduate school! "Contextual familiarity rescues the cost of switching" w/ the amazing Vishnu Murty and Sarah DuBrow psyarxiv.com/7sfh4/

Negative emotions toward breast cancer drive women’s treatment decisions for double mastectomy over similarly effective, lower-risk interventions. Michael Silverstein, Clara Lee, @ldscherer, Andrea Merrill, MD FACS, Ellen Peters bit.ly/3xam5Cs

Negative emotions toward breast cancer drive women’s treatment decisions for double mastectomy over similarly effective, lower-risk interventions. Michael Silverstein Clara Lee @ldscherer Andrea Merrill, MD FACS Ellen Peters bit.ly/3xam5Cs

New paper with Ellen Peters, Pär Bjälkebring, and shootsreinhard now online at Judgment and Decision Making. We created and validated new, short measures of numeracy—the ability to understand and use numeric information. doi.org/10.1017/jdm.20…

So proud of Michael Silverstein for giving a fantastic talk today on affective motivated reasoning. His very first at a major conference and he hit it out of the park! #spudm2023 UOPsych University of Oregon

The anchoring effect has been one of the most far-reaching phenomena across the behavior sciences with a history spanning 50 years. Have you every been curious what we have learned over these decades? Take a look at our new preprint: psyarxiv.com/teq7k/

I am excited to share my first first-author paper in collaboration with Sarah DuBrow and Vishnu Murty! 1/3 link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Interested in #numeracy? Michael Silverstein writes about development of our 3 new numeracy scales, now out at JDM. Find links to text versions and Qualtrics code here too, caidelab.com/post/developin… shootsreinhard Pär Bjälkebring Maxwell Ely UOPsych UO Journalism & Comm

Job alert! University of Oregon UO Journalism & Comm The Center for Science Communication Research is seeking a new Program Manager. Apply now! We will start looking at applications May 4. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/5337…

Special Focus recognizing the outsized influence on memory research of Sarah DuBrow doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…