Behavioural Science Uncovered
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Social Media and Job Market Success with Yan Chen
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Yan Chen about her working paper "Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter," coauthored with J...
The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income with Eva Vivalt
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the study "The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income" with one of its authors, Eva Vivalt. Join us as Eva takes us b...
Lying and Memory Lapses with Marie-Claire Villeval
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Marie-Claire Villeval about her paper, "Unethical Amnesia Responds More to Instrumental Than to Hedonic Motives," co-au...
Designing Information Provision Experiments with Chris Roth
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Chris Roth from the University of Cologne about his paper "Designing Information Provision Experiments". In this paper, ...
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work with Lise Vesterlund
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Lise Vesterlund about her book “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work”, co-authored with Linda Babc...
Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue? with Matt Lowe
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Matt Lowe about his randomised controlled trial, "Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue?", co-authored with Deivis Angeli. The...
The Curious Culture of Economic Theory with Ran Spiegler
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Ran Spiegler about his book "The Curious Culture of Economic Theory". The book is a collection of essays about how the p...
Team incentives and escape rooms with Simeon Schudy
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Simeon Schudy about his working paper "The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks", co-authored with...
Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility with Marta Serra-Garcia
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Marta Serra-Garcia Marta Serra-Garcia about her American Economic Review paper "Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibil...
Cash Transfers & Psychotherapy with Johannes Haushofer
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Johannes Haushofer about his paper “The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psycholo...
Social Learning with Ben Golub
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Ben Golub about his paper “Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning” co-authored with Arun Chandrasekhar an...
Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms with Shengwu Li
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Shengwu Li about his paper Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms . In this paper Shengwu introduces the notion of an "obvio...
Self Persuasion with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi about their paper Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International De...
Economic Behaviour and Genetic Makeup with Pietro Biroli
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Pietro Biroli from the University of Bologna about his paper ”Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance In...
How to Change with Katy Milkman
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Katy Milkman from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania about some of the research that led to the producti...
Lapse-Based Insurance with Daniel Gottlieb
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Daniel Gottlieb from LSE about his paper Lapse-Based Insurance . In this paper Daniel studies why customers lapse on their ...
Case-Based Decision Theory and Maxmin EU with Non-Unique Prior with Itzhak Gilboa
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Itzhak Gilboa, professor of Economics at the HEC Paris and Tel-Aviv University, and holder of the AXA Chair in Decision ...
Incentivised Elicitation of Private Information with Aurélien Baillon
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Aurélien Baillon from Erasmus University Rotterdam about his papers Bayesian Markets to Elicit Private Information and S...
The Dynamics of Discrimination with Aislinn Bohren and Alex Imas
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a power couple joining us. We talk with Aislinn Bohren from the University of Pennsylvania and Alex Imas from the Chicago Bo...
How Incentives Can Change What We Believe with Sandro Ambuehl
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, which forms part of a series on ethics in behavioural science research, we talk with Sandro Ambuehl from the University of Zürich ab...
Awareness Raising Interventions and Meat Consumption with Josh Tasoff
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Josh Tasoff from the Claremont Graduate University. We discuss two of his papers that study if awareness raising intervent...
Associative Memory and Belief Formation with Florian Zimmermann
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Florian Zimmermann, from the briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality and the University of Bonn about his paper “Ass...
Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride with Robert Metcalfe
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Robert Metcalfe from Boston University about his paper “Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride,” which he...
Equilibrium in the Jungle with Ariel Rubinstein
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Ariel Rubinstein from NYU and Tel Aviv University, to discuss his paper “Equilibrium in the Jungle,” which appe...
Civic Honesty Around the Globe with Michel Maréchal
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Michel Maréchal from the University of Zurich to discuss his 2019 Science paper “Civic Honesty Around the Globe”...
Regressive Sin Taxes with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax with Dmitry Taubinsky
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Dmitry Taubinsky from the University of California Berkeley about his paper “Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application t...
Preferences for Truth-telling with Johannes Abeler and Daniele Nosenzo
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Johannes Abeler from the University of Oxford and Daniele Nosenzo from Aarhus University (formerly, the University of No...
Conducting Field Experiments in Education with Sally Sadoff and Andy Brownback
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Sally Sadoff from the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, and Andy Brownback from the University of Arkansas, ab...
Replication Markets with Anna Dreber
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Anna Dreber from the Stockholm School of Economics about her work on replication markets. In this project, Anna and her co...
Debate participation and electoral outcomes with Horacio Larreguy
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Horacio Larreguy from the Harvard Kennedy School about his paper “Who Debates, Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on...
Dynamic Inconsistency in Food Choice with Anya Samek
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Anya Samek from the University of Southern California about her paper “Dynamic Inconsistency in Food Choice: Experim...
Medieval universities and market expansion with Noam Yuchtman
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Noam Yuchtman from the London School of Economics about his paper “Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the ...
Testing Bayesian Updating with Ned Augenblick
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Ned Augenblick from the University of Berkeley Haas School of Business about his paper with Matthew Rabin entitled “B...
Identifying Social Norms with Roberto Weber
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Roberto Weber from the University of Zurich about his paper “Identifying social norms using coordination games: why do...
Fairness across the World with Bertil Tungodden
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Bertil Tungodden from the Norwegian School of Economics about his project entitled “Fairness across the world” in wh...
Misperceived Social Norms with Leonardo Bursztyn
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Leonardo Bursztyn from the University of Chicago about his paper “Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Partic...
Sleep Quality and Productivity with Heather Schofield
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Heather Schofield from the University of Pennsylvania about her paper “Sleepless in Chennai: The Economic and Health ...
Protests as Strategic Games with Noam Yuchtman
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Noam Yuchtman from the London School of Economics about his paper “Protests as strategic games: experimental evidence...