#Aaru, an #AIpowered #customerresearch startup, raised a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. The round included a $1 billion valuation, though the blended valuation was lower due to multi-tier valuations. Aaru uses #AIagents to #simulate #humanbehaviour, replacing traditional #marketresearch methods. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-synthetic-research-startup-aaru-raised-a-series-a-at-a-1b-headline-valuation/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#HumanBehaviour
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds – Nature
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds NatureAI chatbots used inaccurate information to change political opinions: Study NBC…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Computerscience #Humanbehaviour #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #Latvia #LV #multidisciplinary #Politics #Science #Society
https://www.newsbeep.com/291075/
Why People Make Fun of Others and How You Can Deal with It
Well, I finally posted something: a piece that reflects on deep time, how to cope with deep disappointment in humanity, and random walks with photons / on the streets.
It's been really hard to juggle everything, but making time for #WorldGrief matters.
Hope you're taking care of your noggins, too.
#Humanism #HumanBehaviour #International #SFF
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/on-random-walks-in-awful-times?triedRedirect=true
Systematic review and meta-analysis of educational approaches to reduce cognitive biases among students
Beyth-Marom, R., Fischhoff, B., Quadrel, M. J. & Furby, L. in Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents (eds Baron,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BehavioralSciences #Decisionmaking #ExperimentalPsychology #General #Humanbehaviour #Latvia #LifeSciences #LV #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityandSocialPsychology
https://www.newsbeep.com/84391/
Studying the aftereffect and changes in sensitivity to physical and mental time references using a time adaptation paradigm
Time bisection task The valid n for the time bisection task analysis was 73 across the three adaptation…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Humanbehaviour #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #Latvia #LV #multidisciplinary #Perception #Science #Subjectivetimeperception #Timeadaptation #Timebisectiontask #Timeproductiontask
https://www.newsbeep.com/65726/
MIT finds people #walking faster and lingering less in #public space 🚶🏻♀️💨🚶🏾💨
#humanbehavior #humanbehaviour #builtenvironment #cities
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/07/31/walking-faster-ai-study-mit-senseable-city-lab/
Stretching the ol’ writing muscle again requires a warm-up round, so for this newsletter, I’ve got a wee story for you about the Scoundrel Saints mythology in Caracas, Venezuela—and what street stories like this can teach us about how myths grow, and the purposes they serve.
Does knowing how things came to be actually matter?
Or just knowing the need any given human myth cycle serves?
#HumanBehaviour #Humanism
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/on-scoundrel-saints-and-in-between
It has not been easy to carve out time to write anything these last few weeks—but also, whenever I do get a chance to step out from my professional role to be present with immediate human need on the streets, I’m reminded of what matters most… even if what I consider to matter most might read as brain damage to others.
May this wee reflection find you all keeping well.
#Humanism #HumanBehaviour #GlobalHumanism #Music
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/a-note-from-someone-damaged-on-living?r=1ii76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Woo! A newsletter before work!
This first piece for the week is a re-do of one I started months ago, on Molly Conger’s excellent podcast on white supremacists and other such extremists (and the harm they do) in the US.
This re-do essay covers a recent episode of Weird Little Guys that does a spectacular job highlighting the selectivity of data sets, and why it’s so important to show your work and name your sources.
My 1st thought was that the 'benefit of the doubt' is (just) a lazy way of thinking (like stereotypes) - but lazy can be good: it lets us get on with things quicker & stops us wasting time on stuff that isn't rewarding. Unless they're actively evil, trying to harm you or another, where's the value in evaluating/ assessing people or their motives when you could be using the same energy in more personally rewarding ways, like listening to music or planning a party etc... But it could also reflect a generational attitude/ approach & be part of why older people (who grew up in less complex times) can be more vulnerable to cons & scams. 😕
Then I thought of times I've been told to give 'the benefit of the doubt' - usually by those who are determined not to give it to me... 😐
So I see that it can be a double-edged sword & like most things to do with people, more complicated than it looks on the surface. It's certainly provoked an interesting discussion! I enjoyed reading this thread - thank you for kicking it off! 🙂
"Recent Paradigms of Human Mate Selection: A Brain–Behavior Perspective"
Link: https://mdpi.com/2673-9976/42/1/3
#humanbehaviour #mateselection #matechoice #confusion #humanmatechoice #humanmateselection #partnerselection #partnerchoice
Here's a podcast that I have listened to twice now, originally released in April 2022, that provides interesting insight into the personalities that are drawn to authoritarianism.
#authoritarian #authoritarianism
#humanbehaviour #socialscience
#curiosity
I rediscovered something I wrote in my blog about 1½ years ago. It’s something that doesn’t get old and needs constant reminding.
— How Come We Always Assume the Worst in Others? —
Most people are pretty decent, says Dutch historian Rutger Bregman¹, author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2017) and ‘Humankind’ (2020).
🧵 1/2
In an eight-minute video² he explains quite plausbily how doomscrolling, using social media, watching and reading the news changes our perception of humankind. We only see all the bad things happening, which makes us quite susceptible to being persuaded of human vileness. On the other hand, if you believe in the goodness of humanity, so often you are dismissed as this naïve person who doesn’t have a realistic view of the world.
But Bregman, after researching the matter, comes to the conclusion that humans are not as evil and raw as they are made out to be. An example: One of the astonishing discoveries from the second World War is that only 15 to 25 per cent of the American soldiers actually fired their guns. They had to be trained and brainwashed to be able to be more ‘effective’ during the Vietnam War.
Another valid point he’s making is that science is the only self-correcting system that we have that sort of criticises itself and then develops and becomes better […] ⬇️
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_Bregman
² https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TXN7QGGNSWk&local=true
#Sociology #Psychology #Perception #SocialMedia #News #DoomScrolling #HumanBehaviour #HumanNature
Manosphere and individualism are the products of neoliberalism, which promotes competition, inequality and violence. Read more https://theconversation.com/hyper-individualistic-and-focused-on-worth-the-manosphere-is-a-product-of-neoliberalism-254339
#manosphere #individualism #wellnessindustry #neoliberalism #liberalism #violence #loneliness #capitalism #competition #meritocracy #bad #menissues #violenceagainstwomen #inequality #equality #socioeconomics #politics #humans #neoliberal #liberal #individualistic #violentmen #respect #dignity #society #societalissues #societal #humanbehaviour
Just a wee one to start us off this week. Don’t let the title of this recently acclaimed four-part miniseries mislead you: Adolescence isn’t just about the volatile mess of a teen’s mind, and its potentially ruinous consequences. It’s a snapshot of a sort of behaviour that can and does exist at any age—including among many adults who unfortunately shape large swaths of our world.
#TV #MediaLiteracy #Politics #HumanBehaviour #Humanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-teenagers-in-the-room-with-us?r=1ii76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
📢 "Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries" - new article in #Nature Human Behaviour. Authors among others: Helen Fischer and Markus Huff (IWM). Link to the open access article: ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5
#trust #scientists #society #psychology #humanbehaviour @markus_huff
Child abuse is part of age-old cycle pattern that underlies tragedy of terrorism and neoconservative response to terrorism: anti-pattern is education. #CausalityCrisis #HumanBehaviour #CollectiveUnconscious #SharedFacts #TimeBinding #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning
Katharine Hayhoe is always worth listening to. This brief article on the myth of neutrality of scientists is a good example of why I think so.
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