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@ratgenome is excited to announce the new #Behavioral & #Substance Use Disorder Portal—your resource for data and tools on #behavior, #addiction, & more.
Explore: https://rgd.mcw.edu/rgdweb/portal/home.jsp?p=16
Learn more: https://rgd.mcw.edu/wg/behavior_portal_new/

The Naked Truth
About Academic Integrity
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17370766
https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/166442019
HELIOX:
WHERE EVIDENCE MEETS EMPATHY
June 23, 2025• (S4 E62) • 15:29

Thanks for listening today!

#education #academicintegrity #psychology #philosophy #cheating #students #ethics #deepthoughts #France #research #behavioral #socialexperiment #universities #examcheating #technologyandcheating #story #fiction #trending #viral #podcast

#cognitive #neural #linguistic #behavioral #educational #LLM #learning

Ironically, upon the paper's release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online.
Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple Al traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to "only read this table below," thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.
She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail:
Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but Al summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. "We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that," she says, laughing.

"LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential #cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at #neural, #linguistic, and #behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term #educational implications of #LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in #learning."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Neurological archaeology: your smile response to this baby video reveals behavioral contagion in action.

During recent disruptions, researchers documented how algorithmic feeds transmitted functional tics between strangers.

Same mechanisms that create accidental neural changes could enable intentional wellbeing cultivation.

What patterns are you unconsciously absorbing from your digital ecosystem?

Click here for article: https://richardbukowski.substack.com/p/neural-choreography

#neuroscience #behavioral #futures

Learning to #Cope Like a #Coyote

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tipping-sacred-cows/202505/learning-to-cope-like-a-coyote

Key points:

- When facing #environmental change, the opportunism of the coyote beats the apex #predator behavior of the #wolf.
- #Coyotes teach us that #behavioral #flexibility is more valuable than specialization in uncertain times.
- #Mesopredators think like both #hunter and #hunted, preparing them for a world without rules.
- The most innovative #species thrive at the edges of e#cosystems.

Behavioral firewalls are quietly taking over as the digital sentinels of modern cybersecurity architecture. Unlike traditional firewalls that act like bouncers blocking known threats at the gate, behavioral firewalls operate more like surveillance analysts — tracking, interpreting, and...

https://medium.com/@mrsno1special/behavioral-firewalls-and-psychological-profiling-are-we-coding-paranoia-into-cybersecurity-79e5b96c3301

# #behavioral #firewalls #quietly #taking #digital

Handling Heartbreak: 13 Ways People #Cope

New research shows the #emotional and #behavioral responses to #breakingup.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/romantically-attached/202502/handling-heartbreak-13-ways-people-cope

From 03 Feb: Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help - Study provides evidence that our relatives have a “theory... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/bonobos-know-when-youre-clueless/ #behavioral-science #biology #cooperation #neuroscience #science #theory-of-mind

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#Zoomposium interview with Prof. Dr. #Holger #Lyre": Conscious #structures or structures for #consciousness?"

A Zoomposium interview with Prof. Dr. Holger Lyre, renowned German philosopher of #science and professor of #theoretical #philosophy at the University of Magdeburg, where he has also been a member of the Center for #Behavioral #Brain #Sciences (CBBS) since 2010.

More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/05/03/strukturen-fuer-das-bewusstsein/

or: https://youtu.be/Q8KummjugNw

#Zoomposium interview with Prof. Dr. #Holger #Lyre": Conscious #structures or structures for #consciousness?"

@waltwooton @futurebird

One big and very recent development is the #ergodiciity theory in #economics. It throws things like the entire #behavioral economics to the bin and shows how rational the people actually are, confirmed experimentally. All of the taken out of the butt utility functions disappear. It's very satisfying to read.

The foundational paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0

But again, it's #microeconomy, way less political area. I'm personally most familiar with the market microstructure field. If you wanted something not very political, try those keywords. It's most connected to the mathematical decision theory, the PvE version of game theory, which is PvP.

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

via @eff

#RTB #Publicitat #Behavioral

Some parts of #behavioral #neuroscience probably need reinterpretation. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adq6510

Online #Behavioral #Ads Fuel the #Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
#privacy #advertising

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

Online #Behavioral #Ads Fuel the #Surveillance Industry—Here’s How | Electronic Frontier Foundation
#privacy #security #advertising

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

Great thread regarding #cognitive, #emotional, #personality, and #behavioral changes due to prior #Covid infection. Includes good set of links to primary #medical sources, #scientific and related media sources. Also links to related Covid threads

https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/113724051974234583

#Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the #Workplace

A case study on technologies for #behavioral #monitoring and profiling using motion sensors and wireless networking infrastructure inside offices and other facilities" https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/publications/indoortracking #surveillance #employees

Zander Perelman, #PhD student at the
(@)UniversityofIl
studying the #behavioral #ecology of Eastern Massasaugas and Pygmy #Rattlesnakes, expounds on his #academic journey and his co authored IOB paper on #cottonmouths