🔎 Read the latest #EUIResearch interview with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social on how a tiny lead – 51% vs 49% – can shape collective decisions, from elections to online trends 👉 https://loom.ly/oTkRm90
🗳️💬 DDC AI VALGCHAT NOW LIVE! 🗳️💬
Vi har udviklet AI ValgChat FV26, der hjælper med at skabe overblik over dansk politik under valget.
Prøv den her:
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OBS: Svar er vejledende, og kan være upræcise eller forkerte. Eftertjek alle oplysninger!
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How does social influence shape collective outcomes? When does it lead to lock-in on inferior options?
In our 🚨 new preprint 📝 osf.io/preprints/so... we make three contributions
w/ @alexgelas.bsky.social Alex Jochim @leostnbrk.bsky.social Peter Steiglechner & @pantelispa.bsky.social
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We're launching a new Research on Research seminar series for early career researchers!
A space to share your work, brainstorm in-progress projects, or explore fresh ideas for advancing metascience.
Stay updated or register to present: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A more detailed thread on our recent Science Advances paper. Really proud of this paper and the discipline-bending approach and team. It is the first part of a trilogy that was produced with the support of a Sapere Aude grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Stay tuned for part 2 and 3 ;).
Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate?
New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens.
We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often.
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications!
Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Top conditions, environment & colleagues.
Candidates welcome across places and disciplines.
🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026
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The academic conditions in Denmark are excellent and the salary for postdoctoral researchers is quite competitive. You can also work remotely. Reach out in case you are interested and share this message if you know people who might be!
My group also explores: recommender systems/ranking algorithms, collective/organizational decisions and computational social choice (i.e. voting strategies), crowdsourcing and the wisdom of the crowds and human-AI decision making.
Depending on the skill set, you can work on expanding our theoretical frameworks, designing new online studies on social dynamics, simulating the behavior of decision strategies, and cognitive modelling using data from past experiments.
I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Norrköping campus at sunset
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness.
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
👨🎤COSMOS strikes back🌠! This time in Tokyo 🇯🇵 with a fantastic new program designed to teach computational modeling of social phenomena. As always, it's free to attend & we will offer travel stipends to ensure diverse attendance. For details visit 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/application/ pls share🙏
The call for abstracts of the International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation is now open (www.icssi.org/guidelines, submission link coming soon)!
Submit your abstracts until the 14th of March, and join us in Copenhagen from the 16th to the 18th of June! Repost without qualms!
The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads: Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.
List with summary points: 1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. 2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects. 3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy. 4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes. 5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires. 6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments. 7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches. 8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
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#BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science
New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology.
PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025
For more: scienceofboosting.org
@arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
@annualreviews.bsky.social
#policy #behavioralscience
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In 2015, Astrid Kause, Perke Jacobs, and I had the chance to interview Robin Hogarth. Robin‘s passing earlier this year made it urgent for us to revisit the interview and share it with you: youtu.be/RWYe5jYWPYI. Robin was a giant of the JDM universe, and his thinking will be there with all of us.
Science of Science in Copenhagen, June 2025 #scisci
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Applications for the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26 - Jun 20 2025) are now open.
Brochure and more info: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
Application form (deadline, Dec 15 2024): www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) starter pack
Happy to add you
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📢JOB ALERT: PostDoc opportunities at the DDC!
A broad open call with research opportunities in one of our four core research themes: lnkd.in/eQyjaztN
🗓Application date: Nov. 1
🗓Starting date: flexible
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New paper. We did one of @eikofried.bsky.social’s favorite studies: We looked for the E factor, the general tendency to explore; 11 measures, 7 behavioural tasks and 4 self-reports. The best model suggests the different behavioural measures measure different things: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That was quite a serendipitous get together :). Enjoy the working group!
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Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
DIAS offers an outstanding research-focused environment to grow as an interdisciplinary scholar. Reach out if you need information about the institute and (academic) life in Denmark more broadly!
The Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS) is hiring several tenure-track assistant professors across faculties at SDU. The relevant research areas include large scale behavioural data science, affective computing, human-centered AI and digital humanities (see www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...).
