Tom Stafford

@tomstafford

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Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Joined January 2008
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    1 Jul 2015

    For argument's sake: evidence that reason can change minds my essays on the power of argument, OUT NOW as an ebook!

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Today: first on-campus meeting in 19th months. I was surprised by how much more effective and much warmer than online it felt (although this could just be the elation at leaving my attic-study talking)

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  3. Sep 7

    “I hate twitter, it's like a state surveillance agency staffed by gullible volunteers” --Stewart Lee

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  4. Sep 7

    Wake up and choose nuance

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    Sep 6

    One of the more intriguing psychological experiments is the Wason task: it illustrates a deep conflict between intuition and logic. & colleagues use it in new research on group deliberation, and it’s fascinating stuff:

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  6. Sep 3

    Thread from lead author on this here

    If you ask someone out for coffee, which would you rather hear? Sure! or ... sure. The answer is the same, but their *response time* tells you something about how much they like you. Our paper in Cognition formalizes and tests this idea. 1/6
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  7. Sep 3

    (related) A rational model of people’s inferences about others’ preferences based on response times from and others... Their model does Bayesian inference of preferences from RTs (assuming an inverted DDM decision model)

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  8. Sep 3

    the speed with which people reject a price changes depending on how good/bad they think it is -> sellers can read this ->there's an incentive to strategically adjust your response time "These results provide the first insight into the possible use of RT as a strategic variable"

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  9. Sep 3

    Decision Times Reveal Private Information in Strategic Settings: Evidence from Bargaining Experiments via

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    This is my paper, below. The idea of the paper is there is a certain value in being the active creators of goods (as when you put together IKEA furniture) rather than being the passive recipients of goods, and this applies to epistemic goods like true belief.

    The IKEA Effect & The Production of Epistemic Goods new preprint from , which - very flatteringly - uses a newsletter of mine to jump off into an exploration of the distinctive epistemic value of producing, rather than just receiving, knowledge
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    Sep 2

    This is super-interesting and encouraging (and further evidence for the view that reasoning is a social institution, not a private trick, which I expressed most recently here: )

    Reasonable People #24 a lens on the magic of deliberation
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  12. Sep 2

    Original newsletter

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  13. Sep 2

    The IKEA Effect & The Production of Epistemic Goods new preprint from , which - very flatteringly - uses a newsletter of mine to jump off into an exploration of the distinctive epistemic value of producing, rather than just receiving, knowledge

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  14. Sep 2

    *endless screaming*

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  16. Sep 2

    Reasonable People #24 a lens on the magic of deliberation

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    Sep 1

    I might be biased but I frickin love this paper! The dialogues are so fun and addictive to read. Nice one and

    Newsletter! A lens on the magic of deliberation let me tell you why I'm so excited about the work has done, with myself and
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    Sep 1

    Tom has written a brilliant newsletter describing our research on group deliberation. Check it out!

    Newsletter! A lens on the magic of deliberation let me tell you why I'm so excited about the work has done, with myself and
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  19. Sep 1

    Newsletter! A lens on the magic of deliberation let me tell you why I'm so excited about the work has done, with myself and

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    Sep 1

    Want a whistle-stop summary of how we ended up hurtling towards industrial action over ? Here's a brief summary. 1/

    URGENT USS PENSIONS NEWS: Today voted to push ahead with its plans to cut thousands of pounds from the retirement benefits of university staff in the USS pension scheme 1/
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    Sep 1

    Currently seeking recommendations for the series in 2022! Can you think of any great travel books that deserve to be back in print? What classic journeys shed light on our own times? What voices haven't been heard? Please DM me any suggestions, no matter how obscure.

    Delighted to receive copies of the series with these brilliant covers. All such extraordinary books, with new (and old) introductions by some great writers.
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