ON COMMITMENT DEVICE BUSINESSES AND SOFT CONTRACTS This week, our former home, the Center for the Decision Sciences at Columbia University, has turned us on to this article about a fitness plan that charges you more if you work out less. Yes, it’s a business putting applied behavioral economics to work, not unlike Stickk.com or […]
APPLICATIONS NOW ACCEPTED FOR JUNE 21-28, 2011 SUMMER SCHOOL IN BERLIN Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality Foundations of an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory 21 – 28 June, 2011 Directed by Gerd Gigerenzer Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany It is our pleasure to announce the Summer Institute on […]
BUSINESS SCHOOLS RESPOND TO DEMAND FOR USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Advertising has changed a bit since the early 1960s Today the New York Times / International Herald Tribune ran a piece on teaching social media marketing in business schools entitled Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media. The courses of your Decision […]
MAX PLANCK SUMMER INSTITUTE ON BOUNDED RATIONALITY This week, Decision Science News brings you a summer school and a few spring workshops. The summer school is the one at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, brought to you by Gerd Gigerenzer and Nobel laureate Smith and will feature a lecture by Ariel Rubenstein. Now, those […]
MISPLACED SYMPATHY Decision Science News knows that when faculty from London Business School travel abroad, they are frequently asked “how are things at the London School of Economics?” When the London Business School faculty members say politely that they are at LBS and not LSE, the askers suddenly look sympathetic, as if they’d inquired about […]
GET $7,500,000 TO INVESTIGATE NUDGES IN MEDICINE People who have suffered heart attacks can improve their chances by taking aspirin and other medicines. There is a great deal of research on this, yet, we still don’t see 100% of hospitals prescribing these drugs, and the rate of prescription varies from region to region. In general, […]
DESIGNING FOR BETTER HEALTH Richard Thaler writes The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is sponsoring a contest to come up with ideas for improvements in choice architecture, or “nudges”, that can improve health, broadly defined. You can find a description of it on our nudging blog or at http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/designingforbetterhealth This initiative might be interesting to JDMers […]
THE 2009 SUMMER INSTITUTE IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, JULY 12-31, 2009 Those interested in Political Psychology should read Andrew Gelman’s blog postings, and also consider attending this: Stanford University is very pleased to announce that it will host the 2009 Summer Institute in Political Psychology, continuing an annual tradition that was started by Margaret Hermann at […]
INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT AMONG STUDENTS Columbia University’s Eric Johnson and Elke Weber have created Teachers4Turnout, a Web site / classroom activity to encourage voting among students. Check it out at http://www.teachers4turnout.org. Here’s how they describe it: The upcoming election is important to us, but even more important to our students. Decisions made by those officials […]
LEARN VI AND VIM BY WATCHING AND TYPING ALONG For this week, Decision Science News has created a vi and vim video tutorial. (The tutorial is best viewed in your browser’s full-screen mode, try pressing F11 in Windows). Vim is a free and open source editor. DSN highly recommends vim. This tutorial is for absolute […]
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