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Ever wonder what virtue-signalling is?
Or what motivates victim-signalling?
Or what the rewards of “virtuous-victim signalling” are?
The answer that “virtuous-victim signalling” is the resource transfer strategy people high on ... See more
the Alfred Effect
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
If you need many people to take action, you’ll want to count
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Mental Availability effect
Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook
our brains are not designed to reward generosity as reliably as they punish meanness.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
that cooperation in repeated public goods games can be increased if players are allowed to punish noncooperators at their own expense.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition



🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI?
Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls https://t.co/90LOjF7dVC
Impulsivity, says Bosley, is a common diagnostic indicator of people’s vulnerability to fraud.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“fundamental attribution error.”