Jason Collins blog

Books I read in 2025

The study that just won’t die: disfluency edition

More options, more action: contradicting a classic finding

Pulling apart a classic nudge story: the loft insulation trial

Is there an AI workslop problem?

Is following AI advice “anchoring bias”?

A week of links

Why I don’t trust most human-AI interaction experimental research

Economists’ Genetic Blindspot: The Data We’re Not Collecting

A critical behavioural economics and behavioural science reading list

Books I read in 2024

Human-AI collaboration: is it better when the human is asleep at the wheel?

What we learn when we test everything

The human benchmark is typically unimpressive

A comment on the manifesto for behavioural science

Subject notes on behavioural economics

The illusion of evidence-based nudges

Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record

Using generative AI as an academic - July 2024 edition

The psychological and genes’ eye view of ergodicity economics

Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education: A Review

The preregistration halo

A bunch of links

Books I read in 2023

Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were LARGELY CORRECT, if you ignore those that were not

Do students learn less from experts?