CDS Brown Bag HS23
Large Language Models for Behavioral Science

Wulff & Mata (2023)
Automated jingle–jangle detection: Using embeddings to tackle taxonomic incommensurability

Hussain, Mata, & Wulff (2023)
Novel embeddings improve the prediction of risk perception

Bagaïni et al. (2023)
Comparing the Temporal Stability and Convergent Validity of Risk Preference Measures: A Meta- Analytic Approach

Mata & Nagel (2023)
On an unknown early version of Daniel Bernoulli’s Specimen Theoriae Novae de mensura sortis

Bagaïni et al. (2023, JGPS)
Aging and economic preferences: cumulative meta-analyses of age differences in risk, time, social, and effort preferences

Wulff, Meier, & Mata (2023)
Using novel data and ensemble models to improve automated labeling of Sustainable Development Goals

Tisdall & Mata (2023, CABN)
Age differences in the neural basis of decision-making under uncertainty

CDS Risk Hackathon
Check out the report of our Risk Hackathon!

What happens in your brain during financial decision making?
SNF-Sinergia Project: The Foundations of Successful Financial Decision Making

Applied Decision Science:
Providing public and business sectors with data-driven solutions

Cognitive and Decision Sciences
Meet the Team

Cognitive and Decision Sciences

The Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences (CDS) investigates how people of all ages make decisions. Our goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying decision making to ultimately help individuals and organizations make better, informed choices.

Our Mission: To understand and improve human decision-making through the use and development of evidence-based practices

What we do

Research

Events

Teaching

BSc Project

Applied Decision Science

MSc Project

Activities and Networks

SED

Social, Economic, and Decision Psychology

Learn about events, publications, and ongoing research concerning social, economic, and decision psychology.

Interdisciplinary Networks

Bernoulli Network for the Behavioral Sciences

The Bernoulli Network for the Behavioral Sciences is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel, with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the behavioral sciences.

Interdisciplinary Networks

Responsible Digital Society

The network focuses on the digital transformation and its social, ethical, legal, economic, psychological, and political consequences through scientific exchange on artificial intelligence, data-driven research. The network seeks to strengthen the critical interdisciplinary dialogue on these topics inside and outside the University of Basel.

Interdisciplinary Networks

Sustainable Future

The network serves to coordinate and strengthen interdisciplinary research in the field of sustainability at the University of Basel across the boundaries of departments and faculties. All participants in the network focus on the joint development of large projects and initiatives in the three thematic focus areas Energy and Climate, GeoBio-Diversity, and Sustainable Digital World.

The R Bootcamp for Professionals and Academics

Data Analytics Courses

Learn R from data scientists who have jointly spent over 25 years doing data science with R for both research and industry. Our goal is to help you learn the skills needed to discover and communicate insights from data and join the data revolution.

LinkedIn Group

AlumniPsychologie Basel

AlumniPsychologie aims to connect and support alumni of the Faculty of Psychology by facilitating social and professional exchange. If you are interested in psychology-related talks, networking events, and staying in touch with the Faculty of Psychology and the University of Basel, please join the AlumniPsychologie group on LinkedIn.

Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences
Missionsstrasse 64A | 4055 Basel

Administration: Laura Wiles
Phone: +41 61 207 04 40
Office hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs 08:30-14:30 / Fri 08:30-11:30

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