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🏝️I'm beachside in #Cyprus presenting #research about how #AI chats, #visualAids, and other scalable communication tools can improve #health and reduce #drugResistance or #AMR. I'll post below about the other #EHPS2026 sessions I catch. Kudos to the @ehps.bsky.social for allowing remote presenters!

What predicts being more or less intent to seek lung #cancer screening? Andriana Theodoropoulou (below) shared insights about eligible adults with #EHPS2026 from a new paper: doi.org/10.1093/abm/... 🔓 💬 In addition to standard #surveyMethods, they coded thought lists to enable multiple regression.

What about colorectal #cancer screening? Dr. Marcella Bianchi shared results from #Campania, which has outstandingly low #adherence. At least three psychological profiles emerged from non-adherers (photo 2). Follow Dr. Bianchi and the broader #MIRIADE project: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Back to our session on #Health #Communication and #AntibioticStewardship: First, @schneali.bsky.social shared results from a new #openAccess paper. 🫣 When providers could *choose* to ignore diagnostically relevant info, many did...and also prescribed more #antibiotics? WILLFUL ignorance? 👇Thread

What else drives overprescription of #antibiotics? @kevinroche.bsky.social asked Irish GPs. As in many nations, the doctors blamed time pressure, patient expectations, and diagnostic uncertainty. But they also proposed a few solutions! You can follow Kevin at www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevi...

Then @miroslavsirota.bsky.social shared cross-cultural "terminology effects" on correct answering to questions about #antibiotics. "Infection" was more potent than "Resistance". "drug-" or "antibiotic-resistant INFECTIONS" often caused more benefit than "anti-microbial/biotic RESISTANCE" #MedEd

And @robertboehm.bsky.social closed with reflections on - the multi-factorial, multi-party nature of health problems like #antibiotic resistance. - a growing need for our #research to refine policies, practices, and norms. Interested? Join @abc-network.bsky.social: www.a-bc.network/involved.html

David Haag et al found #AI generated behavior change techniques were rated better than those from #healthcare professionals (doi.org/10.1145/3706...). So will such #LLMs perform even better if they generate THEORY-concordant recommendations? A small experiment didn't detect an advantage of theory.

How can we help people take opportunities for #exercise "snacks"? Enter the "Active Waiting" app: activewaiting.at Now, what if the app gave users #AI tailored recommendations based on a photo of their environment? Faith Young reported that this helped in certain cases — and experts preferred it!

The US CDC changed its website's claims about #Autism and #Vaccines on November 19 2025. A high-powered experiment found the change caused differences in the perceived #risk and uncertainty about vaccination, trust in CDC, and reliance on #logicalFallacies (but not vaccination intention). 👇 Thread

Maybe it's unsurprising that #trust in institutions like the #CDC is decreasing in the #USA, but what about other countries? Well @gerrymolloy.bsky.social and colleagues found a similar trend in #Ireland (Figure 1 via Kevin below) and #Canada. #publicHealth #Science #medSky #SciComm #EHPS2026 #edu

Poolside coffee + fruit breaks are the way! Thanks for choosing this venue for #EHPS2026, @ehpsconference.bsky.social!

What about #measurement problems? A handout, presentation, debate, and discussion gave us lots to think about re: #Wicked Problems with #psychology scales Thx T. Cornelius, @matherion.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy, @mayabraun.bsky.social, @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social, schenk.bsky.social, and M. Johnston

Then we had a keynote about the history and future directions of #mHealth from from @profjanewalsh.bsky.social. Promising results #remoteMeasurement in remote areas. But not all interventions are panaceas! A "digital clinician" that seemed more knowledgable was also less satisfying or trustworthy?

How can underutilized tools advance #HealthPsychology? For example, can #AI enhance theory-driven #interview coding? Sumit Mehra et al's attempt found that when #LLM codes deviated from humans' they were usually MEANINGFUL or even ADDITIVE! And most remaining AI codes were identical to humans'!

What if #AI starts the analysis and humans review? Paulina Bondaronek shared 1) Machine Assisted Topic Analysis (MATA): doi.org/10.64898/202... 2) GRACE evaluation framework: doi.org/10.2196/prep... Dr. Bondaronek seemed unimpressed. Does the #preprints formally compare human and machine outputs?

*Correction: DO the preprints...? (Apologies for other typos I've missed.) Onward!

What is the #healthy = #sustainable heuristic? Article: doi.org/10.1111/aphw... 🔓 At #EHPS2026, @katharinaeichin.bsky.social shared an(other?) experiment where people inferred foods' eco-friendliness from its #NutriScore — less so #EcoScore to healthiness. Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🔓

Should #AI still be benchmarked against humans? Alex Gillespie’s #EHPS2026 keynote shared years of #research making sense of patient complaints with #LLMs. One upshot: models often reveal what humans *miss* — not all human #alignment is good! Follow on gScholar: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

Should #health #psychology researchers embrace #LargeLanguageModels for #qualitativeAnalysis? The EQUAL folks organized a debate at #EHPS2026 to review evidence, arguments, objections, etc. for/against both sides.

👏🤓 (The pro-#AI position lost ground, but sustained the majority.) ehps.net/equal/