Jeff Greene

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McMichael Distinguished Term Professor of Educational Psychology & the Learning Sciences in the School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies the science of learning, digital literacy, self-regulation, & epistemic cognition.

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Proud Papa moment as my son entered his first art exhibition and earned a Merit Award: www.cravenarts.org/2024-boa-nat...

2024 BOA National Juried Exhibitionwww.cravenarts.org The Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition is Craven Arts Council & Gallery's signature exhibit, featuring artists and artwork from across the country, in a variety of mediums, styles, and...

Some pretty darn good hiking with some pretty darn good people.

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Perhaps of interest, from @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. "Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science" by van Rooij et al. (2023–2024, preprint) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Have you wondered about how school segregation (which, yes, is still very much a thing) affects students’ social processes & development? Then check out this American Psychological Association Division 15 podcast series with Dr. Lorraine Blatt, who talks all about it. soundcloud.com/user-8836504...

Lorraine R. Blattsoundcloud.com Lorraine R. Blatt joins host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her Educational Psychologist article,

After a 24hr delay, the CLICK lab's Team Tübingen is preparing to board for Germany!

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A reminder that we always blame the technology or social change we didn't grow up with for corrupting the youth of the day. Some people will also try to make money on it. Here, @holdenthorp.bsky.social , editor at Science, argues science isn't settled on phones www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Long interview I did with Candice Odgers about why Jon Haidt is overstating the extent to which science supports his claims about social media. open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

The muddled science on teens and social mediaopen.substack.com Extensive interviews with Jon Haidt and Candice Odgers

Frontiers | What I didn’t grow up with is dangerous: personal experience with a new technology or societal change reduces the belief that it corrupts youthwww.frontiersin.org IntroductionThroughout history, technological and societal changes consistently receive suspicion. Their influences appear damaging, corrupting, and potentia...

I'm so thrilled to share yet another great article from this Educational Psychology Review Topical Collection on The Past, Present, & Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychologist - by Doug Lombardi, Gale Sinatra, Janelle Bailey, and Lucas Butler! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking - Educational Psychology Reviewlink.springer.com Our technological, information-rich society thrives because of scientific thinking. However, a comprehensive theory of the development of scientific thinking remains elusive. Building on previous theo...

Do you want to learn how to better motivate yourself and others? Then you need Motivation Myth Busters - and that's a fact! What an informative, readable, and excellent book by Wendy Grolnick, Ben Heddy, and Frank Worrell!

This screenshot illustrates how tough it is for GAI to become a useful academic research tool. Elicit, which is trying hard to be the "GAI for academics," only retrieves 2 of the many most important citations for my query, even when filtering for Q1 journals, likely because it lacks access to them.

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📢POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY📢 Come join me Gord Pennycook and @tomcostello.bsky.social as we launch a research program using dialogues with LLMs as a tool to study human psychology and decision-making! Located at MIT or Cornell, and open applicants from all kinds of intellectual backgrounds/training!

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Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about our recent PNAS paper for Scientific American! with @vpmurty.bsky.social @benrottman.bsky.social and Yiwen Zhang www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Best Strategy for Learning May Depend on What You’re Trying to Rememberwww.scientificamerican.com Different approaches can support varied forms of memory

Here's an example of how generative AI can be helpful. This is a halfway-decent start to an article. If I was having a writing block, this might get me moving. But it is no more than a scaffold for real academic writing, & it requires someone with expertise to turn it into a useful introduction.

Expertise is domain-specific.

The idea of “PhD level intelligence” is very funny to me, personally, because I have worked with scientists for 20 years. I know someone who has helped find treatments for diseases we didn’t even think were possible and also struggled to understand how the hot tap of a water cooler worked.

Birthday treats from Monuts Donuts (the G.O.A.T.) are never belated.

Anybody want to come to UNC to be my Chancellor? If you take the job, I promise to keep you stocked with Cackalacky. chancellorsearch.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Lots of good points in here. I particularly resonated with the idea that if Generative AI companies put newspapers and other trusted sources out of business, there will be nothing left to train the models except junk, making GAI useless. www.platformer.news/how-to-stop-...

How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AIwww.platformer.news We can still have the internet we want — but we have to try new business models

This post reinforces something I've been saying: at the moment, AIs are best used by experts, not novices. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/latent-exp...

Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&Dwww.oneusefulthing.org Ideas come from the edges, not the center

Hey look, it's me and @mattbernacki.bsky.social! stories.unc.edu/ask-a-profes...

Ask a Professor: Jeff Greene and Matt Bernacki - Carolina Storiesstories.unc.edu Using data to help students learn effectively

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NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...

Good times, great people at ISLS 2024!

"Social media needs science-based guidelines." Yes, yes it does. Social media companies: Let researchers in, before moral panic leads to a worse outcome for you. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Social media needs science-based guidelines - Nature Reviews Psychologywww.nature.com The debate about the negative impact of social media use is heated. Psychology research must avoid the noise and remain focused on improving adolescent mental health.

So fun to hang out with UNC alums Nikki Lobczowski and Vic Deekens, who are doing such great things in their careers!

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Black adolescent girls experience more frequent rates of referral for discipline in US schools than other groups. Want to hear what this is like for them & what schools can do to correct this injustice? Then check out this APA Division 15 podcast w/Dr. Aisha Griffith: soundcloud.com/user-8836504...

Aisha Griffithsoundcloud.com Dr. Aisha Griffith joins host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her recent Division 15 Practice Brief, entitled

The latest article in our Topical Collection on #theory in #educationalpsychology is published online! Efklides & Schwartz describe how they developed their model of self-regulated learning and how they integrated work on metacognitive experiences into it. doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions - Educational Psychology Reviewdoi.org Efklides and colleagues developed the Metacognitive and Affective model of Self-Regulated Learning (MASRL) to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework of self-regulated learning (SRL). The distin...

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"I think theory is often used synonymously with explanation. I think in psychology, we need a notion of theory that's not just explanatory theory, because part of what we're doing is describing the object." @ufeest.bsky.social #PhilSci #Psychology #MetaSci

This week we talk with @ufeest.bsky.social about how our approach to the objects of study in psychology shape our view of the crisis and the reforms that are presented. #HPS #philsci #metascience #histsci www.buzzsprout.com/2180146/1511...

S3 Ep 11 - Uljana Feest on 'What is Missing in Replication Debates' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Sciencewww.buzzsprout.com Today Carmelina is joined by Professor Uljana Feest, Philosopher of Psychology and Chair for Philosophy of Social Science and Social Philosophy at the Leibniz University of Hannover. In this episode,...

Very interesting talk about how differing views of harm affect the ways we view political issues, and what can be done about this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jv3...

Why We Fight About Morality and Politics | Kurt Gray | TEDxRenowww.youtube.com America is divided on morality and politics, but new science shows we all share the same moral mindset, one focused on protecting the vulnerable. Social psyc...

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The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.

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We're expecting a large set of our public records (ie emails) to be published in the coming days as part of an effort to smear folks working to understand & address online disinformation. We're setting up a site to help provide context. Here's the landing page: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/PRR-...

CIP Public Records FAQfaculty.washington.edu Providing context for public records requests targeting the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.

More on teens and social media: lots of good points in this article. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teenswww.theatlantic.com It may only make things worse.