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
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