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    Schwartzstein, Joshua R.Remove Schwartzstein, Joshua R. →

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    • 12 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

    by Scott Van Voorhis

    Diversifying clinical trials could build trust in new treatments among Black people and their physicians. Research by Joshua Schwartzstein, Marcella Alsan, and colleagues probes the ripple effects of underrepresentation in testing, and offers a call to action for drugmakers.

    • 18 Sep 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Using Models to Persuade

    by Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam

    “Model persuasion” happens when would-be persuaders offer receivers a streamlined way of understanding data they already know, especially when the data is open to interpretation. Using examples from finance, politics, and law, the authors find that truthtellers do not eliminate the impact of misleading persuasion because wrong models may better fit the past than correct models.

    • 11 Jul 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Channeled Attention and Stable Errors

    by Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin, and Joshua Schwartzstein

    As humans we are surprisingly good at neglecting unexpected information that conflicts with what we “know” to be true. This paper develops a framework for predicting when we are more likely to “get a clue” despite this cognitive barrier to discovering our own mistakes.

    • 16 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

    by Rachel Layne

    Even with a world of information at our fingertips, consumers routinely make bad decisions on everything from investments to health coverage. Can science help? Research by Joshua Schwartzstein and Benjamin Handel. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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