Social Psychologist, Risk Researcher, Scientist @MIT_AgeLab, Co-founder @risikolabor

Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2009
Proud and excited with @evalermer and Bernhard Streicher that our book is published! Thanks to all the contributors, it was a pleasure to work with you! @risikolabor springer.com/us/book/9783319… #riskanalysis #behavioralscience #behavioraleconomics #psychology #risk #decisionmaking
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The Coronavirus as an Example for the Psychology of Risk: It Hits all the Hot Buttons of Human Judgment nytimes.com/2020/02/13/world… via @NYTimes
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What’s next for psychology’s embattled field of social priming? Semantic priming is well established, but social priming studies often fail to replicate. #replicationcrisis nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Make it relevant and make it easy to change behavior and fight climate change #OptToAct @outsidemagazine outsideonline.com/2405865/ho…
Replying to @JanCrusius
@JanCrusius an I will give an I-Mind writing workshop @ZPID in Trier next month. If you‘re interested to learn writing for a layaudience, mail us or ZPID! @InMindMagazin
Writing & Communicating with the General Public: an @InMindMagazin Workshop @ZPID in Trier. Oct. 25, 2019, 10 am-5 pm. Register now. Places are limited. Details: leibniz-psychology.org/en/ne… @OGenschow @JanCrusius @prof_bosnjak @hansijzerman #openscience @TrierUni @Saar_Uni @uni_lu
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Martina Raue retweeted
The most insidious social science theories are those that are disproven, but stick because they seem true. We see these in business: we've known since the 1950s that group brainstorming is worse for new ideas than working alone, but people like it, so they think it is better! 1/4
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Worth taking a look at Behavioral Scientist's Summer Reading Picks for 2019 behavioralscientist.org/summ… via @behscientist
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Out now: The Behavioral Economics Guide 2019 (intro by Uri Gneezy, editorial by Nina Mažar). Free at behavioraleconomics.com/the-… #beguide2019 @NinaMazar @UriGneezy
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"Ihr müsst die erste Person sein, die die soziale Norm durchbricht", sagt Zimbardo. "Seid keine bystander, seid upstander." ZEIT ONLINE über klassische sozialpsychologische Experimente die jeder kennen sollte um das Richtige zu tun! zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2019/03/… via @zeitonline
Inside the MIT AgeLab With the Oldest Old via @StriaNews strianews.com/inside-the-mit…
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon. (image credit @floragraham) #EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
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Risk analysis releases special issue on the social science of automated driving eurekalert.org/e/90X3 via @EurekAlert Thanks to all the authors who contributed to this Special Issue and to my editorial team @MIT_AgeLab @josephcoughlin