Traditional choices are tempting! In an online test, when asked to quickly pick the creative use of an object from two options (e.g. using a spoon to dig or eat), people hover toward the traditional one first. Read more, by Moritz Reis, Ingo Zettler & co: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely were off the mark again.

Within this paper, we applied an action-dynamics approach to study dark creativity. Thereby, we found a bias toward conventional instead of original ideas. This bias, however, was independent of the valence of the more creative alternative: doi.org/10.1016/j.paid…

Humans prefer traditional over creative ideas even if creative ones are highly familiar. Yet, this anti-creativity bias is reduced for own compared to others’ ideas, likely because of higher confidence in the feasibility of self-generated options. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#ArtificialIntelligence bears huge potential for #medicine. But are we ready to accept AI as a legit source of medical information? Check out my latest preprint, which addresses this crucial question: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

In two preregistered studies involving 2,280 participants using simulated clinical scenarios, advice labelled as involving AI was evaluated as significantly less reliable and less empathetic compared to “human”-labelled advice Moritz Reis Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg nature.com/articles/s4159…