Home Research Research Centers Adaptive Rationality Research Highlights Research Highlights Interested in our recent research results? On this page, our researchers share their most interesting findings. Opening The Stasi Files: Four Reasons for Choosing Deliberate Ignorance Why do so many people choose not to read their Stasi files? more How the brain deals with its own limitations while handling numbers Everyday, people make decisions based on distorted yet smart representations of numbers. more Creating citizen choice architects The key policy goal of self-nudging is to empower people—we call them citizen choice architects—to design their own decision environments and thus to choose if and how they want to nudge themselves. more Boosting decision making Using behavioral sciences to help people make good decisions by and for themselves more How judgments propagate Did you know that judgments can travel from person to person, much like the common cold? more
