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Clarissa Silva
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Behavioral scientist/Entrepreneur/brain health/relationships 💕 Creator of Your Happiness Hypothesis Method, C Silva Solutions, and yourejustadumbass.com. CUNY/UofM/Harvard
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My take on AI:

We’re smarter than ever, and yet we’re also experiencing cognitive decline more than ever.

Don’t let AI replace biological intelligence.

Build skills with it, not dependency.

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AI is agreeing with humans on almost everything – are we losing our grip on reality?
It starts with something simple. You ask ChatGPT for advice on a work email, or maybe how to approach a touchy subject with your partner. You get a thoughtful, polite answer – maybe even better than w...
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August 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Even if you fed ChatGPT your entire dating history, it wouldn’t be able to spot your own blind spots or unconscious patterns, because the number one person we lie to is ourselves.

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#relationships #mentalhealth #AI #LLM#behavioralscience #vanityvalidation #love
Trust issues and chatbots: Why we’re turning to AI for relationship advice in 2025
Hey ChatGPT, is my boyfriend gaslighting me? It’s not the sort of question you'd expect to pose to a chatbot, yet increasingly, it’s exactly what people are doing. In 2025, a growing number of us are ...
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May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Boosting has shown better efficacy rates in many interventions. @stefanherzog.bsky.social the thought leader on boosting and behavioral policy shares his insights.

This could be a strategy for the US government! IJS Behavioral science for the win 😉
stefanherzog.bsky.social Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · Jan 23
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#BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology.
PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025

For more: scienceofboosting.org

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The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads: Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches. List with summary points: 1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. 2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects. 3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy. 4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes. 5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires. 6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments. 7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches. 8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Started a starterpack on Human Behavior! Join us to share all of your work on how you use human behavior in your work!

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April 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Why are we as a society so focused on what I call vanity validation? It’s the obsession focused on electronic likes, rather than life. check out the latest TikTok trend that @theindependent @beccamonaghan asked me to chime in on!

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Is the TikTok 'blindness' trend causing more harm than good?
There's a divisive new trend sweeping TikTok in which people are asking: What blindness do I have?
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August 7, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Sleeping together can provide safety, intimacy, and closeness to a relationship, and can resemble the bond experienced in the womb. But, for some a sleep divorce is the answer.

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Cameron Diaz Is Right To Advocate For Sleeping In Separate Bedrooms — But There's A Catch
On a recent podcast, Cameron Diaz made a bold case for couples sleeping in separate bedrooms and how we should normalize it. Here, we speak to therapists on why this could be a positive move for coupl...
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January 9, 2024 at 6:29 PM