With autocorrect and auto-generated email responses, algorithms offer plenty of assistance to help people express themselves. But new research from the University of Georgia shows people who rely on computer algorithms for assistance with language-related, creative tasks didn’t improve their performance and were more likely to trust low-quality advice. Aaron Schecter, an assistant professor inWith autocorrect and auto-generated email responses, algorithms offer plenty of assistance to help people express themselves. But new research from the University of Georgia shows people who rely on computer algorithms for assistance with language-related, creative tasks didn’t improve their performance and were more likely to trust low-quality advice. Aaron Schecter, an assistant professor in » The FINANCIAL News Education
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New Study Shows Peer Pressure Could Help Teens Make Safer Choices
Peer pressure, a powerful influence in the lives of students, has rather negative connotations in society, which includes the influence of peers on juvenile delinquency and the use of alcohol or cigarettes. According to a new study, affiliated with UNIST, observing social peers making safe choices may lead some teens to make healthy decisions than they would otherwise.
Professor Dongil Chung from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with neuroscientists from Virginia Tech in the United States, has examined the influential power of safe teenagers among peers in a new neuroeconomics study. Using quantitative model-based analyses, they identified behavioral and neural evidence that observing others’ safe choices increases the subjective value and selection of safe options for substance-naïve relative to substance-exposed adolescents.
Nina Lauharatanahirun uses engineering tools to understand biological mechanisms underlying psychological phenomena, such as decision making
Nina Lauharatanahirun, assistant professor, is the first joint hire between the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State.
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Multidisciplinary researcher bridges Penn State departments as first joint hire
Ashley J. WennersHerron
January 27, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Nina Lauharatanahirun joined Penn State’s College of Engineering and College of Health and Human Development on Jan. 1 as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and biobehavioral health. She is the first joint hire for the departments, bridging precision engineering with neuroscience and psychology to study risky decision-making in individuals, with a focus on adolescents, and in teams.