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Bjørn Sætrevik
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Professor of general psychology at the #UniversityOfBergen. My research is mostly centered around applied #DecisionMaking. I'm a lapsed #ClinicalPsychologist […]

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#Fensterfriday
A photograph of a narrow with a steep staircase going up. On both sides are white wooden buildings with coloured window frames.
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Jeg så denne tapet fast til Torgallmenningen, om noen skulle føle seg kallet.
#foundobject
Et fotografi av en liten lapp festet til belegningsstein med store tapebiter. På lappen er det et bilde av Gollum, og en oppfordring til å tulleringe til en påstått kollega.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I just added this to my email signature.

#no2ai #noai #no_ai #aislop #academicchatter
A screenshot showing the following text, with first and last sentence in bold: If you consider using LLM (or «AI») to respond to this email, please reconsider. Our casual LLM use have catastrophic impacts on environment, intellectual property, economic and political power structures, our cognitive skills and our shared humanity. Instead just send me the prompt you would have given the LLM.
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#silentsunday
A photograph looking down on a cityscape on a fjord in early afternoon winter lighting. In the foreground is an elevated viewpoint with various tourists and four oversized candle decorations, out of which two are lit.
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I'm in the auditorium waiting for a #uibai seminar on the legal aspects of (open) AI. For some reason the large screen projector is showing episodes of #Pingu?
Photograph of a cheerful claymation penguin.
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Yesterday I attended the excellent PhD defense of Simen Bø, supervised by Hallgeir Sjåstad. I in turn supervised Hallgeir's master thesis. I think that (almost) makes me a PhD grandfather. #academicchatter #phddefense
A photograph of Simen Bø standing in front of a screen showing the title of his PhD: "Mental time travelers".
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Same view as the replied to toot, six months later. #fensterfreitag #snowscape #Coffeeshop #seasons #cafeopera
A photograph taken through a first floor coffee shop window, showing the view of a small park covered in snow on an overcast day. The six panels of the window, some window sill plants and the back of a sofa are visible on the foreground.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ganske kult å oppgi rappernavnet når du intervjues av #dagsrevyen. #Norsktut
Skjermbilde av at Dagsrevyen intervjuet en som heter "Max Flo".
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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We decided to do today's PhD supervision as a walk-and-talk on a hike up to #skansen. From there I continued on my own up to the #Fløyen summit, and on to #skomakerdiket. I had a hot chocolate from the restaurant in the sun while answering some emails […]

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A photograph of Bergen harbor and Nordnes as seen from Skansen. A photograph of a forest scene with a light layer of snow. Two people in bright coloured jackets are walking on a path between two large spruce trees. A photograph of a bench on a snowy ground, with the city of Bergen seen in the background. This is about two thirds of the way up Fløyen. A photograph of a mount Ulriken as seen from a snowy Fløyen. There is a bench in the right foreground. A small cabin can be barely seen in the left middle distance.
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Det er greit å lære seg litt enkel URL-disiplin. Om du for eksempel er forskningsleder i digital innovasjon som skal skrive en kronikk om at store språkmodeller slett ikke er til hinder for kunnskapsproduksjon, er det dumt om lenken i kronikken viser at du […]

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Et skjermbilde fra en kronikk i Khrono, som viser at lenken til en OECD-rapport om fordelene med store språkmodeller har opphav i en ChatGPT-prompt.
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Spotted this anti #twitter / #x_com #streetart on a stroll through #Bergen.
A photograph of pastup street art on a light grey wall. The art shows a newspaper being torn apart by three blue birds that represent the Twitter logo. The newspaper has headings "More guns" and "Tax the rich".
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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#fensterfreitag
A photograph of a narrow alley with wooden houses on the left side and a tree shedding orange and red leaves on the right side.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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#footpathfriday
A photograph of a footpath going along a steep hill, with sunlight passing through the foliage. The path is partially paved with flagstones and covered with autumn leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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There are also contradictions between the first report from the study, and how the study is later represented by the authors.
The full scope and variety of the misrepresentations and misconduct of the researchers needed the unsealed archives of Festinger to emerge; the full story could not be written until now. But the reputation of When Prophecy Fails should not even have survived its first decade. The text of When Prophecy Fails is filled with strained interpretations of events to make their theory of low to high proselytization work. The contradictions between When Prophecy Fails and a Theory of Cognitive Dissonance show Festinger, at least, was guilty of misrepresentation in one of the two books. And contemporaneous interviews with or news articles about Dorothy Martin and the Laugheads showed that Martin recanted her beliefs and they all abandoned any efforts at proselytization. Just as Martin, Bertha, and the others were eager to accept ‘Brother Henry’ as an authentic messenger of the space brothers, many academics were eager to accept FRS as authentic chroniclers of a strange, laughable sect and its silly prophetess.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In 'Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”' published this week, Kelly draws on recently unsealed archival materials to argue that the foundational study for #cognitivedissonance was intentionally misrepresented by its authors.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jhbs.70043
ABSTRACT In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now-canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting—evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Riecken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had “precipitated” the climactic events of the study. When Prophecy Fails is not the first famous psychological study or account of the mid-20th century to fall to archival research. The popular understanding of the Kitty Genovese murder (Manning et al. 2007), the Milgram obedience experiment (Perry et al. 2020), the Rosenhan experiment (Cahalan 2019), the Little Albert experiment (Harris 1979), and the Stanford Prison Experiment (Le Texier 2019) have all been challenged. The problem is not with qualitative research; we rely on historians and journalists to understand the world, and the replication crisis within psychology shows that quantitative research is not immune to error, bias or manipulation. We would likely understand more about the world if more scholars, psychologists, and journalists were embedded in niche communities like cults. The real failure lies in mistaking vivid narratives for accuracy, and confident, theatrical performances for reliable observation. The braggadocio that FRS or Zimbardo or Milgram, that they could reshape our psychological understanding with a singular, dramatic experiment should never have been accepted. Had anyone sent a postcard to Dorothy Martin, Charles or Lilian Laughead, or their daughter, the FRS account could have collapsed decades ago.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Along the brook in Munkebotn there were some great #mosstodon views.
A photograph of a log fallen across a small brook, all overgrown with moss. A photograph of a mossy fallen tree. A long exposure photograph of a mossy small stone bridge going over a small brook.
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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In a study published in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology today, we tested the amplitude and range of 22 Norwegian probability phrases. Our preregistered categorizations of the phrases as high/low and broad/narrow were supported by N = 537 online participants. (2/3)
A violin plot showing typical interpretations of probability phrases that were a priori expected to have a "narrow" interpretation range. A violin plot showing typical interpretations of probability phrases that were a priori expected to have a "broad" interpretation range.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We use verbal phrases to refer to the probability of a phrase. "High risk" is more than "Will never happen", but how much higher? Also, phrases like "Highly probably" refer to a narrower range than "Presumably". A number of studies have categorized how such […]

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A violin plot showing typical interpretations of probability phrases that were a priori expected to be "high". A violin plot showing typical interpretations of probability phrases that were a priori expected to be "low".
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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#silentsunday
A photograph of a headland with green and orange fall trees and small cabins protruding into a fjord. The other side of the fjord with mountains and a glacier can be seen in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I took the most direct route back down to the city, following the steep #stoltzekleiven stairs straight down to #skuteviken.
A photograph of Nordnes seen from Stoltzekleiven. A photograph looking down towards the wooden staircase parts of Stolzekleiven. A photograph of a switchback turn on the Fjellveien path. A photograph of a narrow Skuteviken alley, looking towards the fjord. among small wooden buildings on a cobbled street.
November 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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After the meeting, I headed up #munkebotn, through the valley and up to #sandvikspilen, with views of the city and the fjord.
A photograph of the Munkbotsvatnet lake, showing pine trees on a hill reflecting in the still water. A photograph taken from a the Sandviken mountain showing Sandviken in the foreground, Bergen and Nordnes in the center, and the Damsgård and Lyderhorn mountains in the background. A birds-eye photograph and down into the suburbian buildings of Sandviken. A birds-eye photograph of the Munkeskjæret residential area built on reclaimed fjord area.
November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Friday two weeks ago was the first bright, crisp winter day. I had a mid-day meeting at the business school on the other side of #Bergen. I #hiked there along the #fjellveien path.
A photograph of some of the villas sitting above Fjellveien, bathed in autumn sun surrounded by seasonal trees. A photograph of the wooded Fjellveien path. A photograph of the city center of Bergen seen from Fjellveien. A photograph of the Norden are of Bergen seen from Fjellveien, framed by trees.
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I had a full day seminar, with this glorious view out the window. #fensterfreitag
A photograph taken through a four panel ballroom window, showing a cemetery with fall foliage trees bathed in low sen.
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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When it got too cold to sit still, I went for a walk up to #skansen, #Bergen.
A photograph taken down a steep alleyway on a sunny day. There are a jumble of smaller tile roofed buildings, a church spire centrally in the picture, a fjord and a city harbor with boats and ships of various sizes. A photograph of a hill with pine trees and leafy trees in fall colors, reflected in a shallow pool.
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Today was just warm enough that I could work in the park across the pond from the faculty for a few hours.
A photograph taken form a park bench on a gravel path, looking across a small artificial lake, some trees in fall foliage and a cityscape in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM