Jeff Greene
@jeffgreene.bsky.social
Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/jeffgreene
“If we don’t change course, many people’s closest confidant may soon be a computer. We need to wake up to the stakes and insist on reform before human connection is reshaped beyond recognition.”
Yes, and we need to reform the systems making people vulnerable to these threats.
Yes, and we need to reform the systems making people vulnerable to these threats.
We're All in a Throuple With A.L.
‘We’re All Polyamorous Now. It’s You, Me and the A.I.’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
“If we don’t change course, many people’s closest confidant may soon be a computer. We need to wake up to the stakes and insist on reform before human connection is reshaped beyond recognition.”
Yes, and we need to reform the systems making people vulnerable to these threats.
Yes, and we need to reform the systems making people vulnerable to these threats.
"...beliefs in the value and utility of the behavior in attaining their goals, may be those most important to consider when developing and evaluating interventions purposed to change people’s beliefs and behavior."
Want to change behavior? Target beliefs people can enunciate and reflect upon.
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Want to change behavior? Target beliefs people can enunciate and reflect upon.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"...beliefs in the value and utility of the behavior in attaining their goals, may be those most important to consider when developing and evaluating interventions purposed to change people’s beliefs and behavior."
Want to change behavior? Target beliefs people can enunciate and reflect upon.
(2/2)
Want to change behavior? Target beliefs people can enunciate and reflect upon.
(2/2)
"Although this evidence should not be taken as a definitive indication that attitudes “cause” behaviors, it signals the potential that people’s considered evaluations around future participation in a behavior, such as..." (1/2)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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February 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"Although this evidence should not be taken as a definitive indication that attitudes “cause” behaviors, it signals the potential that people’s considered evaluations around future participation in a behavior, such as..." (1/2)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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Evidence that talking to people with differing viewpoints leads to depolarization and positive experiences.
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Evidence that talking to people with differing viewpoints leads to depolarization and positive experiences.
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"...common ground, to reduce attitude polarization, and to paint a more complete picture of the landscape of a contentious issue." (2/3)
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"...common ground, to reduce attitude polarization, and to paint a more complete picture of the landscape of a contentious issue." (2/3)
"...evaluating an issue from different psychological points of view, instead presuming their difference of opinion reflects a more fundamental disagreement than it does. Civil conversations are thus surprisingly likely to reveal..." (2/3)
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"...evaluating an issue from different psychological points of view, instead presuming their difference of opinion reflects a more fundamental disagreement than it does. Civil conversations are thus surprisingly likely to reveal..." (2/3)
Evidence that talking to people with differing viewpoints leads to depolarization and positive experiences.
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Evidence that talking to people with differing viewpoints leads to depolarization and positive experiences.
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"Our research suggests that people with opposing attitudes often fail to appreciate that they are..."
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/3)
doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
"Congress also put forth explicit spending requirements for the Institute of Education Sciences—a central education data collection and research agency that was gutted by the mass layoffs last spring."
How Congress’s Budget Could Hamper Trump ED Agenda
Democratic lawmakers pushed for several guardrails in an attempt to restrict how the White House doles out federal funds.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM
"Congress also put forth explicit spending requirements for the Institute of Education Sciences—a central education data collection and research agency that was gutted by the mass layoffs last spring."
Expert-in-the-loop research. This is the way.
We have published the second short video of our series on hybrid collective intelligence. This time, @nikoz.bsky.social from @mpib-berlin.bsky.social presents how combining human expertise with AI insights can lead to better diagnostic accuracy in the medical domain.
youtu.be/Xz8wBkDzjjQ
youtu.be/Xz8wBkDzjjQ
Human-AI collectives produce the most accurate differential diagnoses
YouTube video by HACID Project
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Expert-in-the-loop research. This is the way.
Sigh. Good examples of the dangers of “doing your own research” without any intellectual humility. This seems relevant: bsky.app/profile/pewr...
Nearly all Americans (94%) – including similar shares of both political parties – say it is at least somewhat important for people to “do their own research” to check the accuracy of the news they get.
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Sigh. Good examples of the dangers of “doing your own research” without any intellectual humility. This seems relevant: bsky.app/profile/pewr...
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As an educational psychology and learning scientist, often I get asked who should or should not be using #GenAI and for what. In this post, based on research in expertise and learning, I provide a simple matrix for making those decisions. I know... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Who Should Use GenAI and for What?
Generative AI zoomers say we should use GenAI for everything, and GenAI doomers say we shouldn’t use it for anything. Most of us are in the middle of these two extremes.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
As an educational psychology and learning scientist, often I get asked who should or should not be using #GenAI and for what. In this post, based on research in expertise and learning, I provide a simple matrix for making those decisions. I know... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Great new issue of Educational Psychologist just dropped! Wonderful articles on adaptive teaching experience, motivation theory (why do the same theories continue to dominate?), and a new model of goal revision! Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/c... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
February 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Great new issue of Educational Psychologist just dropped! Wonderful articles on adaptive teaching experience, motivation theory (why do the same theories continue to dominate?), and a new model of goal revision! Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/c... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
This thread relates well to philosophical/psychological work I've done with @aworsnip.bsky.social @kurtjgray.bsky.social and others on deference to experts: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authority or autonomy? Philosophical and psychological perspectives on deference to experts
Several decades of work in both philosophy and psychology acutely highlights our limitations as individual inquirers. One way to recognize these limitations is to defer to experts: roughly, to form...
www.tandfonline.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This thread relates well to philosophical/psychological work I've done with @aworsnip.bsky.social @kurtjgray.bsky.social and others on deference to experts: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Jeff Greene
Nearly all Americans (94%) – including similar shares of both political parties – say it is at least somewhat important for people to “do their own research” to check the accuracy of the news they get.
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Nearly all Americans (94%) – including similar shares of both political parties – say it is at least somewhat important for people to “do their own research” to check the accuracy of the news they get.
... for some people, when it comes to GenAI, the answer to who and for what are "no one" and "nothing." But for folks who are thinking about using GenAI, or being told to, I wanted to provide a simple guide for decision-making. (2/2)
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
... for some people, when it comes to GenAI, the answer to who and for what are "no one" and "nothing." But for folks who are thinking about using GenAI, or being told to, I wanted to provide a simple guide for decision-making. (2/2)
As an educational psychology and learning scientist, often I get asked who should or should not be using #GenAI and for what. In this post, based on research in expertise and learning, I provide a simple matrix for making those decisions. I know... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Who Should Use GenAI and for What?
Generative AI zoomers say we should use GenAI for everything, and GenAI doomers say we shouldn’t use it for anything. Most of us are in the middle of these two extremes.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
As an educational psychology and learning scientist, often I get asked who should or should not be using #GenAI and for what. In this post, based on research in expertise and learning, I provide a simple matrix for making those decisions. I know... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Great question. Sounds like a system problem to me.
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Great question. Sounds like a system problem to me.
This is a joke, right? Historians?!?!?
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
This is a joke, right? Historians?!?!?
"Intellectually humbler people seem to be more curious and better liked as leaders, and tend to make more thorough, well informed decisions. Intellectually humbler people also seem to be more open to cooperating with those whose views differ from their own." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility - Nature Reviews Psychology
Intellectual humility involves acknowledging the limitations of one’s knowledge and that one’s beliefs might be incorrect. In this Review, Porter and colleagues synthesize concepts of intellectual…
www.nature.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
"Intellectually humbler people seem to be more curious and better liked as leaders, and tend to make more thorough, well informed decisions. Intellectually humbler people also seem to be more open to cooperating with those whose views differ from their own." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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From the paper: "Overall, broad claims of generalized learning gains resulting from AI/LLMs appear premature; the current evidence is insufficient to support robust policy or practice recommendations."
Universities (including mine), take note.
Universities (including mine), take note.
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
From the paper: "Overall, broad claims of generalized learning gains resulting from AI/LLMs appear premature; the current evidence is insufficient to support robust policy or practice recommendations."
Universities (including mine), take note.
Universities (including mine), take note.
Reposted by Jeff Greene
Civil conversations reduce attitude polarization more than people anticipate.
People with opposing attitudes toward cats and dogs, cancel culture, and Joe Biden underestimated how much their own and others’ attitudes would depolarize in spoken conversations.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
People with opposing attitudes toward cats and dogs, cancel culture, and Joe Biden underestimated how much their own and others’ attitudes would depolarize in spoken conversations.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
February 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Civil conversations reduce attitude polarization more than people anticipate.
People with opposing attitudes toward cats and dogs, cancel culture, and Joe Biden underestimated how much their own and others’ attitudes would depolarize in spoken conversations.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
People with opposing attitudes toward cats and dogs, cancel culture, and Joe Biden underestimated how much their own and others’ attitudes would depolarize in spoken conversations.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
"...there is a sort of learned helplessness even among critics that assumes reasoning in these things is completely uninspectable. That is not true, not by a long shot. And if that’s what we’re teaching our students we are doing them a grave disservice."
Caption Files and Attribution Reversal in LLMs
Another win for the "fancy search result" framework
mikecaulfield.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
"...there is a sort of learned helplessness even among critics that assumes reasoning in these things is completely uninspectable. That is not true, not by a long shot. And if that’s what we’re teaching our students we are doing them a grave disservice."
Ha! Totally. But the AI hype machine has seemed ignorant of this ongoing truth. :)
February 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Ha! Totally. But the AI hype machine has seemed ignorant of this ongoing truth. :)