A reminder of the line up: 10:00–10:15: Welcome and introduction 10:15–11:00: Fiona Scott Morton (Yale) on “Why behavioral economics is critical to successful regulation of digital markets” 11:00–11:45: Philip Newall (Bristol) on “Dark nudges, dark patterns, and sludge in gambling“ 11:45–12:30: Stuart Mills (Leeds) on “Who is the average user in online choice environments?“ 12:30–13:30: Light lunch 13:30–14:15: Jonathan Porter (Ofcom) on “Testing behavioural approaches to improving safety
Inducing honest responses in discrete choice experiments using the choice matching approach The choice matching (CM) approach is a relatively new method that is meant to induce honest responses in any type of discrete choice question. A collection of three empirical papers that apply the CM to discrete choice experiments (DCEs) is presented. Two papers
On the first week of term, we are very excited about the new academic year. Developments on the MSc Behavioural Science We welcomed an enthusiastic group of new students to our MSc Behavioural Science on Monday who bring a diverse wealth of experience with them. This will be the first cohort to profit from our
The Behavioural Science Centre at the University of Stirling is extremely pleased to announce that we will host a one-day workshop on “Behavioural Science and Digital Markets Regulation” on Friday, 20 October 2023. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on behavioural regulatory policy and practitioners from the field (such as CMA, FCA, Ofgem,
On September 14, the Behavioural Science Centre held a reunion to mark a decade of our MSc Behavioural Science. We were delighted to have talks on the day from a range of individuals who have been involved with the program over the years. Founder director of the MSc program, Dr. Michael Daly, kicked off the
From David Hardisty: If you haven’t heard, Francesca Gino is suing the Data Colada researchers (Joe, Uri, and Leif) and Harvard for $25 million USD: https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-facing-fraud-concerns-sues-harvard-and-accusers-25-million The lawsuit claims defamation related to Data Colada’s work detailing evidence of fraud across four papers: http://datacolada.org/109 Personally, I think Data Colada does an incredible service to our field and to
One argument against incentives is that the mere fact of offering a payment might be inferred to signal that the vaccine is unsafe. Two state-of-the-art studies estimate the effect of financial incentives on trust in the vaccines and find none. A limitation of these studies is that trust in the vaccine was already established at
A Harvard professor who researches dishonesty is now on administrative leave following allegations of data fraud. Monetary / career incentives seem to do little to predict faking data. Francesca Gino is another researcher of morality who has had papers retracted because their data was simply made up. The techniques that behavioural scientists used to uncover
Ellsberg is a pioneer of behavioural science and more especially behavioural economics, being one of the first to use experiments to demonstrate deviations from expected utility theory. His legacy in the wider-world stems from his decision to blow the whistle on unofficial US policy in the run up to and during the Vietnam war. Ellsberg
Drishti Khatri, MSc Behavioural Science Embarking on my MSc in Behavioural Science for Management at the esteemed Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling, has been an enlightening experience. Little did I know that this academic journey would present me with an extraordinary opportunity to delve into the profound impact of social media algorithms on human