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Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-12)
The aggregation of many lay judgments generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds,” has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making and financial forecasting. ...
Mining Reasons For And Against Vaccination From Unstructured Data Using Nichesourcing and AI Data Augmentation
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-28)
We present Reasons For and Against Vaccination (RFAV), a dataset for predicting reasons for and against vaccination, and scientific authorities used to justify them, annotated through nichesourcing and augmented using GPT4 ...
Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
Trabajar las funciones ejecutivas a través de un software lúdico en educación infantil
(REIFOP (Revista Electrónica Internuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado), e-ISSN: 1575-0965, 2024-08-09)
En esta investigación se analizó el impacto de Mate Marote, un software lúdico
especialmente diseñado para estimular las funciones ejecutivas, sobre distintas habilidades
cognitivas en la etapa de educación infantil. Se ...
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
(Science Advance (ISSN 2375-2548), 2024-02-07)
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 ...
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
(Nature ISSN 1476-4687 (online), 2023)
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence ...
The globalizability of temporal discounting
(Nature Human Behaviour, 2022)
Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of ...
The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects
(Journal of Open Psychology DataUbiquity Press, 2022)
People’s estimates are biased toward previously considered numbers (anchoring).
We have aggregated all available data from anchoring studies that included at
least two anchors into one large dataset. Data were standardized ...
The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known
as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking
news, ...