NEW! @caltech will now require SAT in undergraduate admissions for 2024-25 cycle (90+% of 2023 students took it anyway).
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AK’s Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics Papers site is wonderful! Thanks for this public good

Just a reminder that I run another account Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics Papers where I share links to recent decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics papers - in case that can be useful to someone. it's currently over 600+ papers over the last year and a half

Alex Krumer Colin Camerer Richard H Thaler Shengwu Li Stefano DellaVigna Florian Ederer Daniele Paserman 🇮🇱 Lionel Page Justin Wolfers Konstantin Sonin Devin Pope Simon Kuper Congrats Colin! I still remember the hot hand phenomenon from your amazing PhD class in my first term as a PhD student. ;)

He said “put a man into…” four times in 28 seconds.
Will also point out possible origin of “Peekaboo” as a ridiculous slur on Trish James.
(Hint ask Reddit)

Has no bearing on the case or his bullying reality, unlike “Little” Rubio or “Crooked Hillary”

'The cognitive load...' induced by Jokic sorcery

It was a thrill to award #Startup funding to 15 amazing finalists in this great Caltech Business Plan Competition yesterday..

So excited to see the fantastic #entrepreneurial energy and ingenuity from 15 teams of both graduate and undergraduate students!

Mina: “in 4th grade I got permission to bring in a bloomin’ onion cutting device, an onion, and a deep fryer to make an Outback-style bloomin’ onion for the class”

Timonium races was an applied statistics, economics and psychology course. Tuition cost was….flexible

“In Colin Camerer’s hometown, there was a race track called Timonium Fairgrounds Maryland State Fair, hosting a one-month horse racing event, which he used to attend with his father.”

Superb thread, a great example of psychology twitter, from a rising star.

Very good point

notice which occupation has an entire culture dedicated to the idea that they face a uniquely dangerous work environment that isn't even on the list

A nice collection of thoughts by some of the many people who got to know Danny Kahneman over the years.

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons behavioralscientist.org/remembering-da… via Behavioral Scientist

I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).

During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.

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Thanks to the amazing Natalie Adona for spending the morning discussing election administration and technology with the Caltech students in my elections & campaigns class. We learned a lot about election administration in County of Nevada, CA and California! Students learn so much from…

Sports Economics Review is happy to award its 2024 Simon Rottenberg award to Colin Camerer from Caltech for his significant contributions to economics by means of using sports data.
Below is the official announcement of the award.
Colin Camerer

Black Women photographed by Annie Leibovitz vs various Black photographers🧵

Kthxbye to Annie Leibovitz. She is an obstacle blocking deserving photographers from rising up.
how do you mess up Zendaya?

This BTS video of Zendaya being photographed by Annie Leibovitz just goes to show it’s not bad lighting, it’s a choice she makes editing in post to make black women look terrible