Tag: Behavioral

Foster turns his attention to the field of Behavioral Economics that gained a lot of attention in the early 2000’s. However, it is clear Foster is unimpressed. Two psychologists kicked the field off, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Their early work in 1979 covered pros...

Over the course of a year, the average 911 emergency service dispatcher will take over 2,400 phone calls. These calls can range from connecting a resident to medical care for a sprained ankle to dispatching the right support for someone whose life is being threatened or in imminent danger. The varia...

Convoluted Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely adopted for pattern recognition tasks in image analysis. These algorithm captures the features in images using convolution operations with relatively fewer parameters in comparison to total number of operation. Additionally, they can implemented on massiv...

There’s only one problem. It was designed for a “perfectly rational” economic actor. As we know, humans are far from rational, and none of us approach a description of perfectly rational. But what would happen if you had a workplace retirement savings plan designed by two exp...

They’re often behaviors and habits that erode your potential. While some addictions are overt and easy to spot, others are subtle and deep-rooted. These can be even more dangerous, as they often camouflage as normal behaviors. Journaling every day for over five years unearthed ...

Introduction Human behavioral pharmacology is a multidisciplinary field that combines elements of psychology, neuroscience, and pharmacology. The primary goal of human behavioral pharmacology is to understand how different substances can affect the brain and behavior. Pharmaceutical weapons te...