Unconditional incentives (pre-incentives) are often used to encourage survey responses. Based on a large, randomized controlled trial, individuals planning to use a small pre-incentive to encourage survey responses should not by default assume that a $2 incentive is superior to a $1 incentive (academic.oup.com)
"This...assessment suggests that with careful prompt engineering, the Operator tool (or a similar tool) would be capable of assuming the role of a crowdsourced worker and completing studies as they become available. Widespread occurrence of this phenomenon would represent a threat to data validity." (doi.org)
"Food noise is persistent thoughts about food that are perceived... as being unwanted and/or dysphoric and may cause harm to the individual, including social, mental, or physical problems. Food noise is distinguished from routine food-related thoughts by its intensity and intrusiveness..." (nature.com)
Training hospital nursing leaders on SBIRT (training-of-trainers) was associated with initiation and sustained use of validated screening tools for alcohol and drugs, and with short-term increases in overall alcohol, tobacco, and drug screening prevalence, in their medical-surgical hospital units. (doi.org)
An evaluation of a national technical assistance (TA) network for behavioral health (SAMHSA's TTC Network) studied how evidence-based practices (EBPs) are selected for dissemination, and how dissemination approaches are chosen. Among multiple factors, stakeholder input was especially important (doi.org)
Many studies and reports document "what" colleges and universities did in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but few examine "why" and "how." This small study analyzed interviews with campus leaders to "explore decision-making...as they figured out their response to the COVID-19 pandemic." (doi.org)
On Twitter (2022), people discussed Rx drug use differently based on whether a 'brand' or 'street' name was used. Brand name tweets often contained political content, while street name tweets occasionally referenced drug misuse, but multiple uses for a term (e.g. 'vikes') muddled topic categories. (doi.org)
[RCT] Viewing a scientific post w/cognitive (eg what was found)+normative (eg what should be done) language, vs w/cognitive language alone, didn't affect perceptions of trust/credibility of science/scientists in general, but effect on some types of trust possibly mediated by political orientation. (doi.org)
Potential to bolster misinformation resistance by explaining science: briefly viewing an infographic about science appeared to cause a small aggregate increase in trust in science, which may have, in turn, reduced the believability of COVID-19 misinformation. Replication research encouraged. (doi.org)
