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Understanding decisions to make them better. Research centre at the University of Leeds, UK. Visit our centre website at cdr.leeds.ac.uk

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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Steering consumers' food choices towards plant-based meals can reduce our environmental impact. In this context, #CDR Arianna Buratto presented her article on nudging at restaurants, at the 2nd Scottish Behavioural Sciences Conference at Uni of Glasgow. Read the article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
CDR’s Josh Weller @joshweller.bsky.social delivered the prestigious Khodadad Lecture at UC Med School, exploring how dispositional greed links to personality disorders, gambling, and well-being. 🧠💰 #Psychology #Greed #MentalHealth #AcademicTalks
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Regret is the prototypical decision-related emotion. It can influence choices and help people correct mistakes. Prof. Marcel Zeelenberg will argue it also constitutes a basic emotion, meaning that it is innate, universal, consequential and functional. Hear about it Monday 28 July shorturl.at/tqG21
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Covid19 showed us how susceptible to disruption our food chain is. #CDRLeeds Romain Crastes and Gulbanu Kaptan (@gulbanukaptan.bsky.social) have published a new review paper in the Journal of Rural Studies exploring short and long term approaches to make the food chain more resilient. ISSN 0743-0167
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#CDRLeeds 's Simon Baal @svanbaal.bsky.social and colleagues have received an AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant (afsg.org) to improve use of the Problem Gambling Severity Index. They'll attempt identifying different problematic gambling profiles using the score and natural language processing tools.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Investors seem to enjoy reviewing successful past investments, while not paying enough attention to unsuccessful ones. A new paper by #CDRLeeds Edika Quispe-Torreblanca and colleagues shows how the joy of reviewing appealing information may interfere with acquiring new one. doi.org/10.1093/rest...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Massive congratulation to #CDRLeeds Richard Hodgett, for making it to Poets&Quants's 2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, along with Professors from other top schools including MIT, Harvard, INSEAD, LBS and Wharton. Read all about it: shorturl.at/aB8Bi
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2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Richard Hodgett, Leeds University Business School
Over the last decade, Poets&Quants has honored more than 500 up-and-coming star MBA professors from the world’s top business schools.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Would you like to share your research on climate risk communication and hear from leading researchers in the area? Join the Workshop on the Psychology of Climate Risk Communication at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on 8 Sept 2025. Submit your abstract by 15 June! sites.google.com/view/psychcr...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Manufacturing still accounts for 20% of global CO2 emissions. David Palma & Richard Hodgett find that a lack of (i) standardisation, (ii) economic incentives, and (iii) an holistic approach, prevent more sustainable practises in the chemical manufacturing industry. Read at doi.org/10.3390/su17...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Ecological and economic crises increasingly affect the resilience of food supply chains. But who should act? A new paper by #CDRLeeds Gülbanu Kaptan, Romain Crastes and colleagues highlights power dynamics within the fresh produce supply chain and clarifies governance. doi.org/10.1002/bse....
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Would you like to extract and exploit textual data from the internet? No matter whether you want to analyse product reviews, or political opinions, #CDRLeeds 4-day workshop Webtext2Insight will teach you how to do it. 9-12 June 2025 in Leeds. More info and registration: shorturl.at/JCiKT
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
In a world where extreme weather events are ever more common, effective communication strategies are needed to get people to act and prevent in the face of weather warnings. ataylor43.bsky.social reports on her Lloyd’s project to understand weather risk perception and preparedness. loom.ly/kd8EfgM
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Despite free and wide availability, demand for #HIV prevention remains weak in low-income, high-risk settings. @mmglz.bsky.social will present an intervention that managed to increased take-up of pre-exposure prophylaxis in East Zimbabwe. Hear about it Wed. 7 May, 1pm UK. Register shorturl.at/F0CIB
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#MCDA is a collection of techniques used to support #decisionMaking, but it can often struggle with robustness and temporal effects. Prof. Sara Ben Amor will discuss how to overcome these using two new approaches: MUPOM and UTASTAR-T. Join us Wed. 30 April 2025 2pm UK. Register at: shorturl.at/0YKaV
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Most British people eat too much #saturatedFat. #CDRLeeds David Palma and colleagues studied the effect of dietary advice, personalised shopping advice, and taxation, on reducing saturated fat in shopping baskets, using RCT data. Taxing + advice was most effective. doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
New paper published, entitled "Taxing fat versus behavioural interventions: Multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MDCEV) models and the PCSHOP randomised trial of shopping behaviour"
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Irene Mussio (@irenemussio.bsky.social), from #CDRLeeds, has been awarded a small research grant from The #BritishAcademy for her project "Collaborative Solutions to Water Shortages in the Mekong River Delta", in partnership with Dr. Kiet Nguyen from University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There are still two more seminars to go in our Spring #CDRLeeds seminar series! We will be hearing about #DecisionSupport, #Healthcare and #Risk from our speakers. Join us on-campus or via Zoom. More details in: cdr.leeds.ac.uk/events/cdr-s...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you very much to Shirley Zhang for presenting at our #CDRLeeds Spring Seminar Series, discussing the effect of #powerDistance, one Hofstede's cultural dimension, on the amount of trust people put on #AI systems.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Avoidable visits to #Emergency at #Hospitals reduce the quality of service for everyone. But reducing them requires patients recognising their visits as avoidable. #CDRLeeds Romain Crastes dit Sourd and colleagues found that low trust on GPs trigger more visits. #HealthPolicy doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The harm caused by #gambling is not only mounting debts, but frayed relationships, sleepless nights, and the quiet despair. #CDRLeeds 's @svanbaal.bsky.social write about these in a new blog post (accesible here: shorturl.at/A16pv), based on his (and colleagues) new paper doi.org/10.1037/adb0...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#GlobalWarming has made #climateCommunication a critical aspect of #sustainability. But how has #riskPerception and #preparedness around the world changed? #CDRLeeds Andrea Taylor (@ataylor43.bsky.social) will be discussing this in a SRI seminar on Wed 19 March 4pm GMT. shorturl.at/FSFzL
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#CDRLeeds and the Yorkshire & Humber Group of @theorsociety.bsky.social (YHORG) are happy to invite you to our first joint seminar, where Garry Fothergill and Francisco Saldanha will discuss the challenges and opportunities of Operations Research in industry and academia. Join us: shorturl.at/SFW0u
Hybrid seminar: Navigating challenges and opportunities in operations research. Wednesday 19 March 2025, from 2pm to 3pm. Liberty Building room 1.11, University of Leeds. Or join through zoom at https://shorturl.at/SFW0u
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Despite progress in #women 's social an economic status, they experience worse #mentalHealth, greater negative affects, and lower #wellbeing than men. Edika Quispe, from #CDRLeeds, and colleagues, explore potential explanations in a new publication in #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Reducing #foodWaste is critical for a more #sustainable food supply chain, but that requires consumers buying imperfect produce, e.g. a misshaped fruit. Lisa Eckmann, will show how depicting loose single bananas as "sad" increases their chance of being purchased. 12 Mar. Register: shorturl.at/cmMH5
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between SR Mailing Ltd industry and #CDRLeeds members Barbara Summers, Peizhi Shi, Xingjie Wei and Alan Choicharoon has been approved by #UKRI. The project seeks to incorporate #AI and #LLM technologies in the company operations to maximise sustainability.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congrats to #CDRLeeds @joshweller.bsky.social 🎉, for being elected as President Elect of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). He will become president of the association in 2027. EADM organises the biennial SPUDM conference and co-runs the journal Judgment and Decision Making.
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
#Sustainable #transport is a challenge across cities worldwide, but implementing new policies is expensive and risky. Yu Wang from @envleeds.bsky.social will discuss how using #VR can help simulate these changes and study travellers response in our next #CDRLeeds seminar. Sign up: shorturl.at/7VBwB
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#Climate related events are expected to increase in severity in time, making warnings systems ever more critical. #CDRLeeds Andrea Taylor, along with colleagues, published a summary of 10 topics needing more research to make impact-based forecast and warning more efficient doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
When making a risky #decision, do you rely on an external measure of #risk, your own #experience, or a combination of both? Dr. Konstantinidis, will discuss how and when these data sources are combined, preferred, and used. Join us in the next spring #CDRLeeds seminar Wed 19 Feb shorturl.at/Z775C
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Risk assessment in public health often lacks community input when defining acceptable risk targets. Researchers, including CDR's @irenemussio.bsky.social, developed a method to account for individual #risk #preferences in medical -and potentially other- decisions. read more: doi.org/10.1080/1545...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Struggling with #decisionMaking? Try the new decision.help decision support tool currently being developed by a team of researchers in #CDRLeeds. The tool will be introduced in the first CDR Seminar of this season, we'd love to hear your feedback! Attend Wed 12 Feb shorturl.at/hNSy9
Invitation to participate of CDR Seminar on Wednesday 12 February
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Spring is coming, and what better way to wait and welcome it than with a new #CDRLeeds seminar series? If you are interested in #decisionScience, #decisionSupport, #nudging, #consumer #behaviour and more, do not miss our hybrid seminars! cdr.leeds.ac.uk/events/cdr-s...
Itinerary of CDR spring seminar series, from February to April 2025
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A company's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices have an important impact not only on their environment, but also on their employees. Panagiotis Stamolampros from #CDRLeeds and colleagues show how ESG practices are linked to higher employee satisfaction in doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Centre for Decision Research @cdrleeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
News of (salient) violence against LGBTQ+ people motivate short-term prosocial attitudes towards them among the population. Jack Thompson & colleague showed in their new paper in American Political Science Review. But this is not a sustainable way to generate empathy. Read at doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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