Some new #behavioralscience work out today via @CFPB. What kinds of rules do people use to save, and how are these rules related to savings outcomes? We partnered with Qapital and Common Cents Lab to find out. consumerfinance.gov/data-research/…

New work out today via Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on inflation, bank account balances, and markers of financial distress among historically underserved consumers in the South. #inflation #finance #banking lnkd.in/eTERArvc

Hi #aps23dc! Are you interested in the Psychology of information, or in working in applied settings like government, industry, and health? Come to our panel tomorrow at 9:00am: we will take questions about life in applied settings and how to conduct more policy-relevant research.

We are visualizing our data all wrong. Typically, academic graphs show statistical confidence intervals or standard errors. This paper shows that everyone from doctors to tenured faculty misread these graphs, assuming effects are larger. Show variability! jakehofman.com/pdfs/illusion-…

Excited to announce a new paper in PNAS today! An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Joint w/ great coauthors Sam Zhang is logged off, Patrick Heck, Michelle N. Meyer, Christopher Chabris & Dan Goldstein

😔 #DataViz typically depicts *either* statistical uncertainty *or* data variability. Alas, medical, data science, and faculty experts reliably misunderstood them. 🙂 Visualizing *both* reliably improved experts’ accuracy! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… #dataViz #metascience #quant

My newest paper, titled "Do People Desire Optimism During a Novel Global Crisis?" was recently accepted in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 🎉🎉 Preprint here: psyarxiv.com/pbnjf This work was done with University of Iowa JDSC Lab, coauthors: Jeremy Strueder Inky park Paul Windschitl

My team is hiring! If you're passionate about household finance and want to want to use your behavioral science, economics, and data skills to improve financial outcomes for families, this is a great place for you. vanguardjobs.com/job/19226069/i…

🚨Submit your consumer finance papers for the 7th @CFPB research conference 🚨 Deadline: Friday, December 22, 2023 Conference: May 2024 How to submit: consumerfinance.gov/data-research/…

‼️ At Geisinger we have several open positions for empirical researchers at the intersection of behavioral science & health: • Predoctoral fellow (starting ASAP) • Postdoctoral fellow (ASAP) • Faculty, open rank (flexible) Ads & application info: tinyurl.com/BehSciJobs

My new study just came out in nature! The paper introduces "Option C Thinking". This approach is an experimental enhancement that produces the type of policy-based evidence that the science of scaling demands from the beginning. You can download for free here:

How well do people know their own social abilities? Patrick Heck, Matt Brown, and I ran two studies (N=927) that each showed a surprising pattern: a negative relationship between people's self-rated skill and actual performance for social ability. People who rated their social skills

Amusing finding: The people who rated themselves the highest in terms of social skills had the lowest social intelligence scores.

Congrats to Joachim Krueger, Dave Freestone, and David J. Grüning on this target article, out today in Psych Inquiry. This paper started when I was still in graduate school and has been a colossal intellectual challenge, as was reviewing the commentaries! 🧠🎊 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In Newsday, Banking while Black: Study that includes Nassau County finds disparities in small business lending A secret-shopper study conducted by @CFPB found “significant disparities” in the way Black borrowers were treated vs. white peers newsday.com/business/small…

Sanna Tenhunen Susan Kuivalainen Olivia S. Mitchell In the final highlight from this issue, Patrick Heck, Ratcliffe and Tibbitts investigate how different versions of the Financial Well-Being scale (5-scale and 10-scale) can impact FWB scores. 🔗cup.org/3Qc0ORW #JnlFLW #FinLit