@msilverstein18

Ph.D. candidate and Behavioral Decision Scientist at the University of Oregon

Joined September 2019
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Special Focus recognizing the outsized influence on memory research of Sarah DuBrow doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02246

Introduction to the Special Focus: Remembering Sarah DuBrow

This Special Focus of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to the research legacy of Dr. Sarah DuBrow. Sarah Dubrow passed away in February 2022 at the young age of 35 years, only 4...

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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm30 Apr 2024
Job alert! @uoregon @UOsojc The Center for Science Communication Research is seeking a new Program Manager. Apply now! We will start looking at applications May 4. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/jo…
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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm6 Dec 2023
Interested in #numeracy? @msilverstein18 writes about development of our 3 new numeracy scales, now out at JDM. Find links to text versions and Qualtrics code here too, caidelab.com/post/developing… @shootsreinhard @PBjalkebring @maxwellcely @UOPsych @UOsojc

Developing and Validating the Numeric Understanding Measures (NUMs)

How numerate are you? See if you can answer the following question: • If 50 people in a town of 100,000 people catch a virus, what percent of the town has the virus? ______% of the town (answer at...

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Lindsay Rait@LindsayRait10 Oct 2023
I am excited to share my first first-author paper in collaboration with @sarahdubrow and @vpmurty! 1/3 link.springer.com/article/10…

Contextual familiarity rescues the cost of switching

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - Changes in context influence the way we form and structure memories. Yet, little is known about how qualitatively different types of context switches shape...

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Dan Schley@DanSchley7 Oct 2023
The anchoring effect has been one of the most far-reaching phenomena across the behavior sciences with a history spanning 50 years. Have you every been curious what we have learned over these decades? Take a look at our new preprint: psyarxiv.com/teq7k/
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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm23 Aug 2023
So proud of @msilverstein18 for giving a fantastic talk today on affective motivated reasoning. His very first at a major conference and he hit it out of the park! #spudm2023 @UOPsych @uoregon
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New paper with @ellenpetersjdm, @PBjalkebring, and @shootsreinhard now online at Judgment and Decision Making. We created and validated new, short measures of numeracy—the ability to understand and use numeric information. doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2023.17

The numeric understanding measures: Developing and validating adaptive and nonadaptive numeracy...

The numeric understanding measures: Developing and validating adaptive and nonadaptive numeracy scales - Volume 18

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Medical Decision Making@MedDecMak23 Feb 2023
Negative emotions toward breast cancer drive women’s treatment decisions for double mastectomy over similarly effective, lower-risk interventions. @msilverstein18 @claranlee @ldscherer @AndreaLMerrill @ellenpetersjdm bit.ly/3xam5Cs

Operating on Anxiety: Negative Affect toward Breast Cancer and Choosing Contralateral Prophylactic...

Background Rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM)—removal of the healthy breast following breast cancer diagnosis—have increased, particularly amo...

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Medical Decision Making@MedDecMak11 Oct 2022
Negative emotions toward breast cancer drive women’s treatment decisions for double mastectomy over similarly effective, lower-risk interventions. @msilverstein18, @claranlee, @ldscherer, @AndreaLMerrill, @ellenpetersjdm bit.ly/3xam5Cs

Operating on Anxiety: Negative Affect toward Breast Cancer and Choosing Contralateral Prophylactic...

Background Rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM)—removal of the healthy breast following breast cancer diagnosis—have increased, particularly amo...

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Lindsay Rait@LindsayRait13 Sep 2022
Very excited to share my first preprint of graduate school! "Contextual familiarity rescues the cost of switching" w/ the amazing @vpmurty and @sarahdubrow psyarxiv.com/7sfh4/
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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm6 Sep 2022
Great contribution to science on emotion-driven choosing in breast cancer treatment. Led by @msilverstein18, it's his very first first-authored publication!! @UOPsych @uoregon
Andrea Merrill, MD FACS@AndreaLMerrill6 Sep 2022
Our paper is out on how emotions affect surgical decision making in breast cancer with @claranlee @ellenpetersjdm @msilverstein18 doi.org/10.1177/0272989X2211…
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nice paper by @ellenpetersjdm about the power of numeric self-efficacy. many medical decisions and behaviors require persistence to be successful over time. #MDMTwitter journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Numeracy and the Motivational Mind: The Power of Numeric Self-efficacy - Ellen Peters, Brittany...

Background Objective numeracy appears to support better medical decisions and health outcomes. The more numerate generally understand and use numbers more and m...

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UOPsych@UOPsych13 May 2022
With his recent Bower Award, @PaulatDR has joined Marie Curie, Orville Wright, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein as a Franklin Institute Award laureate. Read more about the award and his incredible work here: psychology.uoregon.edu/news-…
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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm21 Apr 2022
Ed Yong speaking @UOsojc @uoregon "Instead of asking "What's my risk?" I've tried to ask "What's my contribution to everyone's risk?""
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SarCrespi@boron11024 Feb 2022
New @ScienceMagazine Podcast: Finland puts the finishing touches on the world’s first high-level permanent nuclear repository w/ @inspiringsci, and why being good at math might make you both happy and sad @PBjalkebring science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
photograph of a digging machine inside a giant cave. Credit: Tapani Karjanlahti/TVO

ALT photograph of a digging machine inside a giant cave. Credit: Tapani Karjanlahti/TVO

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Blair Shevlin@BlairShevlin1 Feb 2022
Excited to share that my research with @KrajbichLab, @stephsmithphd and Jan Hausfeld (not on Twitter) was published in PNAS paper today! Tweet-thread soon to come, but for now here's a summary article at ZME Science zmescience.com/science/news-…

People are surprisingly good at making fast, accurate, high-stakes decisions

It's the opposite of what researchers were expecting.

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John Clithero@clitheroj27 Dec 2021
"Eugene is a hotbed of research in decision making and science communication, and that's largely because of Paul Slovic” #JDM registerguard.com/story/news…

Decision making researcher, UO professor awarded prestigious Bower Award

A Eugene-based researcher who for six decades has studied how and why people make the choices they do will be next year's recipient.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavel25 Dec 2021
The rise and fall of rationality After the year 1850, the use of words associated with fact-based (vs. emotional) arguments rose steadily in books and the @nytimes But the pattern reversed in the 1980s, and emotion-based arguments accelerated around 2007. pnas.org/content/118/51/e210…
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Ellen Peters@ellenpetersjdm6 Dec 2021
Excited to see CAIDe lab's own Eliza Lawrence and her story and #SciComm research featured! @shootsreinhard @PBjalkebring @davidmmarkowitz @msilverstein18 @raleigh_goodwin @hayley_svensson @mtusler and our other amazing lab members! @UOsojc @uoregon around.uoregon.edu/what-will…

SOJC: What Will Your Story Be? - Science Communication

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Pär Bjälkebring@PBjalkebring25 Nov 2021
New paper out exploring the connection between numeracy, income and life satisfaction. People high in numeracy gain more life satisfaction from income and have a higher income satiation point for life satisfaction. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Money matters (especially if you are good at math): Numeracy, verbal intelligence, education, and...

Objective numeracy, the ability to understand and use mathematical concepts, has been related to superior decisions and life outcomes. Unknown is whether it relates to greater satisfaction in life....

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