So hono(u)red and excited to be speaking at the Third International Behavioural Public Policy Conference at Cambridge University in June, along with the amazing Elke Weber. Special thanks to Mohamed A. El-Erian Adam Oliver; hope to see various friends and heroes there.
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Important efforts!

The Frontiers Award goes to Elke Weber for her research on environmental decision-making and the factors that motivate action against climate change frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/front…

Nice number: j’ai besoin de Duo tous les jours

What Milan Kundera called the “unbearable lightness of being,” and to which I give my negotiation class students an escape by providing them with z-scores for their performance in their assigned role

Matthias Wildemeersch Fernando P. Santos Michael Oppenheimer Elke Weber And thank you to Cara M. Clase, Ph.D. and Princeton School of Public & International Affairs's CPREE for a great write up on the research! cpree.princeton.edu/news/2024/pros…

I recently read a chillingly beautiful essay by Elke Weber ! I plan to practice applied hope for a long time. Why not ?! amacad.org/publication/un…

Choice symposium was such a blast! We had an intensive three days discussion about search, translating between disciplines and learning from each other! Thank you! Maarten Speekenbrink Eric J. Johnson Elke Weber Ana Martinovici Sudeep Bhatia Dan Schley Anocha, Cathy Crystal Tulin Neil!

Not much else worth celebrating these days…

New paper w/Elke Weber: introducing Norm Networks!

Norm perceptions are linked (if one thing is popular, we assume similar things are too) and norm perception updates spread through the network. Check out implications for norms research & interventions:
doi.org/10.3389/frsps.…

Wohl das Stärkste, was ich von deutschen Politikern je gehört habe. Jeder Satz hallt nach. Robert Habeck ist in diesen für Deutschland entscheidenden Tagen der Anker, den das Land braucht. Leben wir „Nie wieder!“ - oder behaupten wir es nur gelegentlich?

Mine is hanging on the chimney as a stocking stuffer if I am a good girl this month!

Wir haben ihn als Steroide inhalierenden Muskelmann ohne Hirn verspottet.
Als er Gouverneur von Kalifornien wurde, haben wir ungläubig gekichert.

Spätestens heute wissen wir: Die Welt wäre besser, wenn Arnold Schwarzenegger US-Präsident werden dürfte.

Our very own STEP PhD student Rachel Young ⁦Rachel Young⁩ ⁦Princeton School of Public & International Affairs⁩ giving a great talk on surprisingly high excess mortality over time caused by tropical cyclones in continental US at NY Federal Reserve Bank

Too beautiful a number not to brag about it. The Germans call it a Schnapszahl, “boozy number”?

(Dark) Defaults for the loss: New paper in PNAS w/ fab Nate Posner Andrey Simonov Kellen Mrkva Defaults increase 'donations' about $40 million. Why 'Dark'? Many people don't know they donate weekly Katy Milkman Cass Sunstein Richard H Thaler Shane Goldmacher doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

If you think that defaults dont' matter read this from Bloomberg Business week, nice piece by Leah Nyle, who asked how defaults work. We learned yesteday they matter $10billion dollars a year to Google and Apple. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Some information on the 3rd International Behavioural Public Policy Conference, to be held in Cambridge next June: ibppc.org Elke Weber and Cass Sunstein to give keynotes. Organised by Lucia Reisch and her team.

The New Berlin Lab of our visiting professors Elke Weber Princeton University & Eric J. Johnson Columbia University is now complete: Lubna Rashid, Arian Trieb and Jonas Ludwig (all TU Berlin) are now doing #research in #sustainable behavioral change. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…