Pantelis P. Analytis

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
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Ph.D. and postdoc positions in Data Science for epidemic preparedness at the NERDS research group The NERDS (NEtwoRks, Data, and Society) team at the IT University of Copenhagen welcomes applications from aspiring PhD students and postdocs in the areas of Da

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.

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👨‍🎤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🙏

Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Berlin 2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are delighted to announce that the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality will once again take place from June 17 to 25, 2025, at the Max Planck Institute for Human D…

Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality, Berlin, 2025

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Call for Abstracts — International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation

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

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YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Human Development Talking about decisions with Robin Hogarth

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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Testing the convergent validity, domain generality, and temporal stability of selected measures of people’s tendency to explore - Nature Communications Exploratory behaviours involve a trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Here the authors investigate exploration behaviour across different domains and whether tendency to explore is stable o...

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...).

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A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour?

See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2...

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🚨3-year postdoc position🚨

Work with us at the MPI for Human Development on NLP projects at the intersection of psychology, AI, and scientometrics involving LLMs and the large-scale analysis of publication records.

Only a few more days to apply.

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Over the last 3 days, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Athens, Greece, bringing together 12 external researchers from Europe and the USA. 🌍 Summary: Outstanding presentations, engaging discussions, delicious food, sunny weather, and a splendid view of the Acropolis. 🤩🎉

We (@zpid.bsky.social) are hiring 3 assistant profs (GER Jun-Prof) with tenure track and reduced teaching load in
-Science Acceptance,
-Psychological Metascience, and
-Big Data in Psychology
An attractive startup package is available. Questions? Feel free to contact me!
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The talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now.

sites.google.com/view/causali...

Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.
Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf...
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16).
Happy to hear from you!