Prof. of Creativity and Creative Thinking at @SheridanCollege
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“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” (M. McLuhan, 1962, The Gutenberg Galaxy, p. 36)
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🚨New WP🚨
Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!
Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u8…
If you are at @CollisionHQ, come say hi!
We are #SheridanProud to have Dr. Nathaniel Barr, Professor of Creativity and Creative Thinking, represent Sheridan at the 2023 Collision Conference. He will share his expertise and insights on the panel titled "AI and Creativity: What's left for humans?”
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It's turning out that "people who ‘think outside the box’ are better at assessing misinformation and bullshit". Insight problem-solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @BarrNathaniel @joeydunsmoor #fakenews
Speaking next week at the Torrance Festival of Ideas, a free virtual event. Look forward to talking about how we offload thinking to tech (for better & worse), how 4th IR is shaping the skills that matter, and how we can build the future with the mind in mind
Offered my thoughts in this collection- given the anthropogenic roots of our most dire challenges, behavioral science has critical role. It is important to advocate for scientific approaches to policy, not simply apply specific insights from past research.
Special Collection: Examining the Intersection of Behavioral Science and Advocacy
To what extent should they engage in advocacy or activism on social and political issues? Should they be impartial investigators, active advocates, something in between?
behavioralscientist.org/spec…
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In a recent #Take5 Sheridan researchers @BarrNathaniel and Michael McNamara explain the causes and dangers of COVID-19 misinformation, the strategies to suppress it and more: j.mp/3v4sATx #SheridanResearch @NewsSheridan @NSERC_CRSNG @MediaSmarts @BEworks
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In this year’s Choice Architecture Report @BarrNathaniel discusses the pitfalls of being a species deemed ‘too smart to fail’ & calls for leaders to place behavioral sciences front and center
Read more at hubs.ly/H0HSFBy0
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As 2020 draws to a close, we look back at when @behscientist asked to imagine what the next decade of behavioral science would hold. Many leading behavioral scientists weighed in on this special section, such as @BEworks @KellyBEworks & @BarrNathaniel
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Happy to report that I received a @sheridancollege People Award for creativity today- thanks to all of my students, collaborators, and research partners.
Info on our new project to design, test, and disseminate creative interventions aimed at combating the spread of COVID-19 #misinformation online.
@SheridanCollege collab with @BEworks, @MediaSmarts, @GordPennycook, @Paul_Seli and @DG_Rand.
#behavioralscience #CheckThenShare
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Happy to share that we got an NSERC grant ($360k/3yrs) for our proposal, “Community Ideas Factory: Behavioural Insights Unit” to help non-profits through a fusion of behavioural science & art/design. @sheridancollege in partnership with @BEworks
j.mp/2XwrvF2
Also thanks to @GordPennycook @Paul_Seli @DG_Rand @Paul_Seli @Roger_Beaty @JonathanSchool6 @BallLinden for agreeing to be listed as our Extended Academic Network on this application
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Today is the @UN's #WorldCreativityAndInnovationDay.
In the face of global challenges, the world needs #creativity.
#Science helps us enable this.
Read @BarrNathaniel's essay hubs.ly/H0pKdbV0
Download our full report hubs.ly/H0pKKnF0
#WCID #Science #Creativity
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In @businessinsider: "5 ways managers can adapt to the work-from-home-force now, because it'll be here for a while"
by our own @danariely @BarrNathaniel @NickMHobson @KellyBEworks
Read, share, and see comments for our free webinar on #WorkingFromHome!
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Companies may invest in wellness & mental health- but behavioural science shows us a key thing is missing.
See what @KellyBEworks @BarrNathaniel and @NickMHobson believe it is & what companies can do:
thriveglobal.com/stories/wan…
@PepsiCo @Google @Starbucks @Facebook @Uber @lyft
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Want to make your brand psychologically capturing? Try using the power of ritual. (by @NickMHobson, @BarrNathaniel, and @KellyBEworks) businessinsider.com/make-bra…
In this effort to imagine the future of behavioral science, I argue that “humanity needs a creative, technologically advanced behavioral science” to rise to the challenges of this era behavioralscientist.org/imag… via @behscientist