Dr. Alex Swan

@swanpsych.com

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Assoc Prof. Cog psy, films, & biases. ❤️ memes & gifs. Dad. Krav blue belt. Host of CinemaPsych Podcast. YouTuber. Posts are mine. He/him https://linktr.ee/alexbswan

Meme of Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story, with the former’s arm outstared and the latter with a worried look on his face. Buzz seems to be saying with the text on the image “confirmation bias everywhere”
An arm on a white paper towel background showing a fresh tattoo of the green guy from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, who is a green sphere, sticking out his tongue, with a hat, camera, and suitcase with a towel sticking out of it.
A digitally illustrated, semi-realistic portrait of a smiling male professor standing on a leafy college campus in autumn. He has light skin, short brown hair, and a full beard, and wears a light blue button-up shirt. He holds a coffee cup in one hand and a backpack strap in the other. Floating around him are icons representing psychology (a brain with network nodes), media (a film reel, a YouTube play button, and a microphone), and data (a rising bar graph). The background features golden trees, falling leaves, and a red-brick academic building, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.
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A group of college students in a library, visibly sleep-deprived. Their eyes are red and droopy, with dark circles under them. Some students struggle to keep their eyes open, while others have dozed off on their textbooks. One student stares blankly at a laptop screen, while another grips a coffee cup with shaking hands. Their desks are cluttered with books, notes, and empty energy drink cans. The dim lighting in the library enhances the atmosphere of exhaustion and inability to concentrate.
Screenshot of research article with the following text: The Science of Teaching and Learning Corner Generative Al in Higher Education: Uncertain Students, Ambiguous Use Cases, and Mercenary Perspectives SOCIETY& THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY Teaching of Psychology I-10 © The Author(s) 2024 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00986283241305398 journals.sagepub.com/home/top § Sage Brian W. Stone ID Abstract Background: Students in higher education are using generative artificial intelligence (Al) despite mixed messages and contradictory policies. Objective: This study helps answer outstanding questions about many aspects of Al in higher education: familiarity, usage, perceptions of peers, ethical/social views, and Al grading. Method: I surveyed 733 undergraduates. Results: Students reported mixed levels of experience with Al and tended toward nervousness over excitement. Most reported professors addressing Al but not integrating it. While 41% of students had used Al in ways explicitly banned, many more students (59%) reported ambiguous use cases. Students overestimated peer cheating, and this predicted their own cheating, as did general experience with and excitement about Al. Meanwhile, 11% of students reported false accusations, with first-generation students possibly at a higher rate. Pragmatic views about career and inequality may be affecting behaviors. Men consistently reported more involvement with Al than women. Conclusion: Future research should focus on the hybrid collaboration of humans and Al and how Al might be leveraged to support and scaffold genuine learning. Teaching Implications: Al will be relevant to many future careers, and students increasingly want it to be part of their education. Academic integrity will be a continuing challenge, and students need transparency. Keywords technology artificial intelligence, generative Al, academic integrity, false accusations, detection, bias, ethics, inequality, workforce, educ…
Screenshot of a YouTube comment that has the following text: Lecture 12: Discrimination & Reducing Prejudice || PSY 203: Social Psychology @patrickcelleri8934 • 17 hours ago (edited) Sometimes on the unbearably woke end of things - expected from the beta-male, ally persona.
Screenshot image with the following text: The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine, Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen. Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be. Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." Three? Oh me . . . I guess it’s not as perfect As I thought it would be.
“Figure 1-A from the National Center for Education Statistics showing average scores on PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) for literacy and numeracy among U.S. adults aged 16 to 65 in the years 2012/14, 2017, and 2023. The literacy section presents a bar chart: • 2012/14: 272 (marked with an asterisk indicating significance), • 2017: 271 (asterisked), • 2023: 258. The numeracy section presents another bar chart: • 2012/14: 257 (asterisked), • 2017: 255 (asterisked), • 2023: 249. Each bar is labeled with its corresponding scale score on a range from 0 to 500.”
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A screenshot of a YouTube comment that says the following: “Dr. Swan, l'm an American grad-student in Europe (struggling in statistics at the moment) and this series of lectures along with the one you did 4 years ago have been a GODSEND. If you ever look at yourself in the mirror and wonder if it's worth to sacrifice so much of your precious time to do these videos, just close your eyes and remember all of us who are able to fulfill our rites of passage in life thanks to your tutelage. We can't thank you enough..”
Two panel image of Homer and Marge from The Simpsons. In The top panel, Marge says “c’mon Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon.” In the bottom panel, Homer grumbles his reply, “that’s not how I remember it.”
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"I BELIEVE IN EVIDENCE. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be." - Isaac Asimov
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A Reddit thread where a claim is made about the MBTI personality test that is basically saying the assessment is astrology for business folks. The comments then report my paper’s summary of why this is the case.
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Family Guy meme where Meg says “you guys always act like you’re better than me” and she is labeled with Personal Opinion while her family is sitting the living room with extremely formal attire, with Chris labeled with Peer Review, Alois labeled with Verifiable Truths and Peter is labeled with Empirical Evidence