Tuesday

21-Feb

Climate change adaptation and mitigation: The role of psychology

Nielsen, K. S., Clayton, S., Stern, P. C., Dietz, T., Capstick, S., & Whitmarsh, L. (2021). How psychology can help limit climate change. The American Psychologist, 76(1), 130–144. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000624

Tuesday

07-Mar

Cognitive and affective mechanisms of sustainable behavior change

Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel, University of Basel

Fakultaetszimmer 00.007 // Zoom

Tuesday

14-Mar

Journal Club: Adaptation Factors

van Valkengoed, A. M., & Steg, L. (2019). Meta-analyses of factors motivating climate change adaptation behaviour. Nature Climate Change, 9(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0371-y

Tuesday

21-Mar

Cookies & R

Tuesday

28-Mar

Journal Club: Mental Health and Well-Being

Mah, A. Y. J., Chapman, D. A., Markowitz, E. M., & Lickel, B. (2020). Coping with climate change: Three insights for research, intervention, and communication to promote adaptive coping to climate change. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 75: 102282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102282 

Tuesday

18-Apr

Sustainability in Practice

Dr. Carina Weingartner, Sustainability Office, University of Basel

Tuesday

25-Apr

Journal Club: Climate Scepticism

Hornsey, M. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(11), 1454–1464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y

Tuesday

02-May

Journal Club: Institutional Design

Hauser, O. P., Rand, D. G., Peysakhovich, A., & Nowak, M. A. (2014). Cooperating with the future. Nature, 511(7508), Article 7508. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13530

Thursday

04-May

Bernoulli Workshop

Friday

05-May

Nature. And us?

CDS and PSBC visit the exhibition "Nature. And us?" at Stapferhaus

Tuesday

09-May

Cookies & R

Yunrui Liu

Tuesday

16-May

Student Presentations

Lorenda Ramaj, Zoé Sandle, Salina Lüdi, Simon Mugume, Eliana de Cesara

Tuesday

23-May

Student Presentations

Antony Berbert de Castro Hüsler, Arbnor Nokaj

Tuesday

30-May

Student Presentations and Wrap Up

Amanda Holzer, Tamara Lutz, Samir Meier, Hanna Stöckli

Tuesday

20-Sep

Science in the Swiss Public: The State of Science Communication and Public Engagement with Science in Switzerland 

Swiss Academies Report

Friday

23-Sep

CDS @ Museum für Kommunikation

Museum für Kommunikation

Tuesday

27-Sep

How to communicate uncertainty? Practical examples of a public scientific institution

Dr. Suzan Fiack, Head of Press and Public Relations, Department Risk Communication, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)

Abstract and background readings

Tuesday

04-Oct

Journal Club

Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2022). Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(6), 514-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.002

Alexandra Bagaïni

Tuesday

11-Oct

Cookies and R with CDS MSc Students

This is a meeting with MSc Students, Yunrui, Edi and Gayoung on R training. CDS members are welcome to join in!

Yunrui Liu

Raphael Edison Most

Gayoung Son

Tuesday

18-Oct

Science communication in times of crises – Connecting science, society and politics

Dr. Mirjam Jenny, Head of Science2Society at the University of Erfurt's Health Communication Lab

Tuesday

25-Oct

Journal Club

Uscinski, J. E., Douglas, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Climate change conspiracy theories. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.328 

Wednesday

26-Oct

10th Bernoulli Lecture 

Prof. Dr. Karen Douglas, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent, UK

Additional information

Tuesday

01-Nov

The use of simulation in risk communication

Dirk Wulff

Tuesday

08-Nov

Journal Club

Franconeri, S.L., Padilla, L.M., Shah, P., Zacks, J.M., & Hullman, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 22(3):110-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211051956 

Tuesday

15-Nov

Journal Club

Hussain, Mata, & Wulff (in prep.). Semantic accounts of risk perception. 

Wednesday

16-Nov

Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception

Creating a Data Story

Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ 

Tuesday

22-Nov

Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception

Group Feedback

Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ 

Tuesday

29-Nov

Cookies and R with CDS MSc Students

This is a meeting with MSc Students, Yunrui, Edi and Gayoung on R training. CDS members are welcome to join in!

Yunrui Liu

Raphael Edison Most

Gayoung Son

Tuesday

06-Dec

Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception

Group Feedback and Reflection

Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ 

Tuesday

13-Dec

Tuesday

20-Dec

Tuesday

22-Feb

SEMESTER START

Machine Learning in the Psychological and Behavioral Sciences: Introduction

Hofman, J.M., Watts, D.J., Athey, S. et al. Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science. Nature 595, 181–188 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03659-0 

Literature (available on ADAM)

Tuesday

01-Mar

Machine Learning in the Psychological and Behavioral Sciences: Ethics and Fairness

Lo Piano, S. Ethical principles in machine learning and artificial intelligence: cases from the field and possible ways forward. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7, 9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0501-9

Mitchell, S., Potash, E., Barocas, S., D’Amour, A., & Lum, K. (2021). Algorithmic Fairness: Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 8(1), 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-042720-125902

Literature (available on ADAM)

Tuesday

01-Mar

Movie Night

In Silico https://insilicofilm.com 

Tuesday

14-16 Mar

Workshop

Cognitive and Decision Sciences meets Cognition and Consumer Behavior Lab 

Tuesday

22-Mar

Planning Session 

Discussion of workshop outcomes and discussion of additional readings for the semester 

Tuesday

29-Mar

Big Data in Psychology 

Adjerid, I., & Kelley, K. (2018). Big data in psychology: A framework for research advancement. American Psychologist, 73(7), 899.

Literature (available on ADAM)

Wednesday

30-Mar

Movie Night

AlphaGo: the Movie AlphaGo

Tuesday

05-Apr

Developmental Process of Stapferhaus Exhibitions

Presentation on how exhibitions at Stapferhaus like "Geschlecht. Jetzt entdecken." are developed.

Monday

11-Apr

CDS visits the Natural History Museum

Discussion on the design and development of the exhibition „Erde am Limit” in the Natural History Museum.

Tuesday

19-Apr

Brown Bag - Project Presentation

SWOW and MYSWOW

Tuesday

26-Apr

Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry

Dwyer, D. B., Falkai, P., & Koutsouleris, N. (2018). Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 14(1), 91–118. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-045037 

Literature (available on ADAM)

Tuesday

03-May

Using machine learning on video and audio recordings of psychotherapy sessions

Tuesday

10-May

CDS Lunch

Tuesday

17-May

Visual performance evaluation of ML algorithms

Tuesday

24-May

Paper Discussion: Personality Map

Tuesday

31-May

Student Presentations and Wrap-up

Tuesday

07-June

Brown Bag - Superdot

Teaching session on visualizing complexity, at the intersection of design, journalism, communication and data science.

Tuesday

28-June

Planing Session and Practice Talk

1) Plan next semester (HS22) on ‘Outreach & Science Communication’

2) Practice conference talk from Alexandra

21-Sep-21

SEMESTER START

Talk & Discussion  

"Diversity in Science: Challenges and Opportunities"

Background: Monitoring Equal Opportunities Report

Patricia Zweifel

University of Basel

28-Sep-21

Talk & Discussion

"Sustainable Development Goals: Reducing Inequalities"

Background: Sustainable Development Goals

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Hirsu, L., Quezada-Reyes, Z., & Hashemi, L. (2020). Moving SDG5 forward: Women’s public engagement activities in higher education. Higher Education, 81, 51–67. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00597-0

Franziska Kastner

University of Basel

28-Sep-21

Movie Night: Picture a Scientist

Picture a scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. 

Machine Learning with R

https://therbootcamp.github.io/AML_2021AMLD/

Markus Steiner, FHNW

Dirk Wulff, University of Basel

05-Oct-21

Talk & Discussion

"A tale of gender politics at the SNSF - data analysis for evidence-based research policy-making"

Background: SNSF Data Story 

Rachel Heyard

SNSF

Julius Mattern

SNSF

12-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Background and Preparation 

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Odic, D., & Wojcik, E. H. (2020). The publication gender gap in psychology. American Psychologist, 75(1), 92–103. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000480

14-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Data Analysis

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

19-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Preparation for Reporting

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

20-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas"- Reporting

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

26-Oct-21

Hackathon "Diversity @ Unibas" - Presentation and Discussion of Results 

https://cdsbasel.github.io/Diversity_hackathon/

02-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Journal Club

Literature (available on ADAM)

• van Dijk, H., van Engen, M. L., & van Knippenberg, D. (2012). Defying conventional wisdom: A meta-analytical examination of the differences between demographic and job-related diversity relationships with performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119(1), 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.003

• Eagly, A. H. (2016). When passionate advocates meet research on diversity, does the honest broker stand a chance. Journal of Social Issues, 72(1), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12163

04-Nov-21

CDS visits the Exhibition "Gender and Sex"

https://stapferhaus.ch/geschlecht/ 

05/06-Nov-21

SDG Hackathon "Visualizing Swiss Sustainability Research"

https://www.sdghackathon.io 

09-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Demographically diverse crowds are typically not much wiser than homogeneous crowds

Literature (available on ADAM)

• De Oliveira, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2018). Demographically diverse crowds are typically not much wiser than homogeneous crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(9), 2066-2071. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717632115

16-Nov-21

Brown Bag - The diversity-innovation paradox in science

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Hofstra, B., Kulkarni, V. V., Galvez, S. M. N., He, B., Jurafsky, D., & McFarland, D. A. (2020). The diversity–innovation paradox in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(17), 9284-9291. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117

23-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Nielsen, M. W., Bloch, C. W., & Schiebinger, L. (2018). Making gender diversity work for scientific discovery and innovation. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(10), 726-734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0433-1 

30-Nov-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

Tamara Lotz, Salary or Sustainability? 

Sophia Prix & Nina Frings, Increasing knowledge about carbon numeracy

07-Dec-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

Manuel Aubert, Predicting life outcomes based on risk preference

Fiona Groeflin & Maja Kohler, Science communication

14-Dec-21

Brown Bag - Student Presentations

Svea Maeder, What is a Data Story?

Din Burazorovic, Fact boxes in finance and medicine: How affect influences comprehension of icon arrays and tables

19-Jan-21

Brown Bag - Use caution when applying behavioral science to policy

Literature (available on ADAM)

• IJzerman, H., Lewis, N.A., Przybylski, A.K. et al. Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy. Nat Hum Behav 4, 1092–1094 (2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00990-w

Brown Bag - Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable 

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Meehl, P. E. (1990). Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories are Often Uninterpretable. Psychological Reports, 66(1), 195-244. doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1990.66.1.195

Markus Steiner

Brown Bag - How to translate a verbal theory into a formal model

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Smaldino, P. E. (2020, May 26). How to translate a verbal theory into a formal model. https:/ /doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000425

Brown Bag - Student engagement

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Schneider, M., & Preckel, F. (2017). Variables associated with achievement in higher education: A systematic review of meta-analyses. Psychological bulletin, 143(6), 565. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000098
• Zepke, N., & Leach, L. (2010). Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action. Active Learning in Higher Education, 11(3), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787410379680

Workshop - R workshop for reproducible research 

Lisa Reiber

Max Planck Institut for Human Development

Workshop - R workshop for reproducible research 

Lisa Reiber

Max Planck Institut for Human Development

Workshop - Data Visualisation for Social Good in R tidyverse 

Brown Bag - The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Niv, Y. (2020). The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain. 

Talk -  Psychology for Social Good

"Psychology for Sustainability: the Sustainable Development Goals" 

Franziska Kastner

University of Basel

Brown Bag - Psychology for Social Good

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Kazdin, A. E. (2009). Psychological science’s contributions to a sustainable environment: Extending our reach to a grand challenge of society. American Psychologist, 65(5),339.

Talk - Psychology for Social Good

"Scientist's perception of the relationship between good science and professional air travel"

Agnes Kreil

ETH Zurich

Brown Bag - Psychology for Social Good

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Spencer, L. M., Schooley, M. W., Anderson, L. A., Kochtitzky, C. S., DeGroff, A. S., Devlin, H. M., & Mercer, S. L. (2013). Seeking best practices: A conceptual Framework for planning and improving evidence-based practices. Preventing Chronic Disease, 10.
• Michie, S., Van Stralen, M. M., & West, R. (2011). The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions. Implementation Science, 6(1), 1-12.

CDS Hackathon Preparation - Sustainable Development Goals: SDG Keywords

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Sachs, J. D., Schmidt-Traub, G., Mazzucato, M., Messner, D., Nakicenovic, N., & Rockström, J. (2019). Six transformations to achieve the sustainable development goals. Nature Sustainability, 2(9), 805-814.
• Report: The Power of Data to Advance the SDGs. Mapping research to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, Elsevier

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

CDS Hackathon Preparation - Sustainable Development Goals: Data Analysis Plan

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

CDS Hackathon Preparation - Introduction to R Markdown

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

CDS Hackathon 1 - Research on Sustainability at the University of Basel

https://cdsbasel.github.io/SDG_hackathon/

Hackathon Preparation - Sustainable Development Goals: Data Visualisation

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Brown Bag - Psychology for Social Good

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Nisa, C. F., Bélanger, J. J., Schumpe, B. M., & Faller, D. G. (2019). Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials testing behavioural interventions to promote household action on climate change. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1-13.
• Hummel, D., & Maedche, A. (2019). How effective is nudging? A quantitative review on the effect sizes and limits of empirical nudging studies. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 80, 47-58.
• Hulkkonen, M., Mielonen, T., & Prisle, N. L. (2020). The atmospheric impacts of initiatives advancing shifts towards low-emission mobility: A scoping review. Science of the Total Environment, 713, 136133.
• DellaVigna, S., & Linos, E. (2020). Rcts to scale: Comprehensive evidence from two nudge units (No. w27594). National Bureau of Economic Research.

CDS Hackathon 2 - Research on Sustainability at the University of Basel

https://cdsbasel.github.io/SDG_hackathon/

Hackathon Preparation - Reporting and Presentation

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Talk - Overview of Research on SDG at a Higher-Education Institution

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

• Manuel Aubert: Do individual differences in risk taking predict life outcomes? An analysis plan
• Fiona Groeflin: How to communicate uncertainty
• Maja Kohler: Communicating experts
• Tamara Lotz: Employer Branding and Corporate Social Responsibility

Brown Bag - Student Presentations 

• Din Burazorovic & Svea Maeder: Data visualization
• Nina Frings & Sophia Prix: Flying less

Brown Bag - Student Presentations and Wrap-up

Tuesday 

17-Aug

Brown Bag - Discussing the upcoming semester / Feedback about CDS R  Training Website

The link to the website will be sent by email.

Tuesday

31-Aug

CDS visits the Exhibition "Earth at its limits"

https://www.erdeamlimit.ch

Tuesday

07-Sep

Brown Bag - Striving toward translation: strategies for reliable fMRI measurement

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Elliott, M. L., Knodt, A. R., & Hariri, A. R. (2021). Striving toward translation: strategies for reliable fMRI measurement. Trends in cognitive sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.05.008

Tuesday 

14-Sep

Brown Bag - Using large-scale experiments and machine learning to discover theories of human decision-making.

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Peterson, J.C., Bourgin, D.D., Agrawal, M., Reichman, D., & Griffiths, T. (2021). Using large-scale experiments and machine learning to discover theories of human decision-making. Science, 372, 1209 - 1214. DOI: 10.1126/science.abe2629

Brown Bag -  Welcome to the Fall 2020 term!

Brown Bag - Algorithmic Jingle Jungle

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Grieder, S., & Steiner, M. D. (2020, September 1). Algorithmic Jingle Jungle: A Comparison of Implementations of Principal Axis Factoring and Promax Rotation in R and SPSS.

Silvia Grieder

Markus Steiner

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Fox, P., & Hendler, J. (2011). Changing the equation on scientific data visualization. Science, 331(6018), 705-708.
• Harold, J., Lorenzoni, I., Shipley, T. F., & Coventry, K. R. (2016). Cognitive and psychological science insights to improve climate change data visualization. Nature Climate Change, 6(12), 1080-1089.

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Spiegelhalter, D., Pearson, M., & Short, I. (2011). Visualizing uncertainty about the future. science, 333(6048), 1393-1400.

Brown Bag - Journal Club: Data Visualization

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Behrisch, M., Blumenschein, M., Kim, N. W., El-Assady, M., Fuchs, J., Seebacher, D., ... & Keim, D. A. (2018). Quality Metrics for Information Visualization. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 625-662).

Brown Bag -  An intro to version control with git 

Preparation:

• URL: https://git-scm.com/
• macOS / Linux: git is already pre-installed
• Windows user: Consider downloading and installing it from the URL above

Brown Bag - Pre-registration. Understanding Financial Risk Perception: A Description vs. Experience Comparison

Literature (available on ADAM)

Hackathon - Construct Validity

Brown Bag - "Flying Less" Data Visualization Prep Session  

Ggplot Training

Brown Bag - "Flying Less" Data Visualization Prep Session 

Hackathon - "Flying Less"

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Brown Bag - The Semantic Representation of Risk

Literature (available on ADAM)

• Wulff, D. & Mata, R. (2020). The semantic representation of risk. Basel: University of Basel.

Dirk Wulff

Rui Mata

Brown Bag - Temporal Stability of Risk Preferences: Insights from Longitudinal Panel Data 

Alexandra Bagaïni

Yun Rui Liu

Brown Bag - Student presentations

Data visualisation (Manuel Aubert, Din Burazorovic, Svea Maeder, Reto Ritter)

Brown Bag - Student presentations

Flying less (Nina Frings, Tamara Lotz, Sophia Prix)

Evidence & Risk (Fiona Groeflin, Maja Kohler, Jacqueline Koll)

Brown Bag - Student presentations & Wrap-up

Predictors of intra-individual variability in sports risk-taking (Anna Cajochen)

Wortwoertlich translated, literally. Or the role of abstractness and frequency in word meaning alignment across languages (Nieves Schwab)