The Behavioral Design Podcast · Samuel Salzer and Aline Holzwarth

2023 in Review – Season 3 Finale 🌟

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Sam Altman’s warning: large language models may get good at persuasion before AGI.

1. The Behavioral Design Podcast season 3 finale centers on gratitude and behavioral science. 2. Aline Holsworth hosts with Samuel Salzer, and they frame the episode as a year-end review. 3. The episode asks what gratitude research, behavioral science, and their own year have to say about well-being. 4. Aline describes a daily dinner practice where her family says “our gratefuls.” 5. She contrasts broad gratitude items like “my health” and “my family” with smaller details like “the way that the sun looked.” 6. Samuel connects gratitude to reframing exercise as “I get to go on a run.” 7. They discuss a Nature and Human Behavior meta-analysis by Dunnigan, Folk, and Elizabeth Dunn. 8. That review compared gratitude, enhancing sociability, exercise, mindfulness, meditation, and nature exposure. 9. Aline says the paper found limited high-quality evidence overall but placed gratitude near the top. 10. She notes the review looked at pre-registered studies and whether they were sufficiently powered. 11. The hosts discuss a preregistration paper in Nature and Human Behavior. 12. Aline cites a replication rate of about 50 percent in general and 86 percent for preregistered studies in that paper. 13. Samuel says the replication crisis has made him more careful about relying on small studies. 14. They argue that fields improve when they assess data integrity and study methods. 15. The episode then shifts to behavioral science and AI. 16. Aline mentions Behavior Bites, a new community and newsletter for behavioral science and AI. 17. Samuel describes experimenting with specialized GPTs for behavioral coaching and AI-supported literature reviews. 18. They highlight resources on women in behavioral science, fraud and whistleblowing, choice overload, and the science of context. 19. The tone is reflective, personal, and conversational, with long back-and-forth exchanges rather than formal segments. 20. Listeners who like gratitude research, behavioral science, and year-end retrospectives will get the most from this episode.

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