A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...

A large-scale study on the replicability of claims from social and behavioural science journals reports that about half of the results replicate in the same patterns as the original study.

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

What do we do? We conduct large-scale behavioral science studies to improve the daily decisions, behavior, and experience of vulnerable individuals (e.g., the well-being of citizens and families / ed...

Previous research has proposed that financial resources influence cognitive performance, though subsequent studies have questioned the magnitude and even the existence of this effect. To clarify these...

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in experimental psychology. Yet, little is known about the direction, magnitude, and consistency of their effects. We conducted a three-...

Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Nature Reviews Psychology - Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this...

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

Peer Community in Psychology

In response to US turmoil, premier establishments such as the European Research Council have sweetened incentives to attract talent.

The 2025 “Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making” meeting will be held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. It will take place from August 31st to September 4th 2025 and will ...

Consciousness is a fundamental component of cognition, but the degree to which higher-order perception relies on it remains disputed. Here we demonstrate the persistence of learning, semantic processi...

In preparation for our discussion of "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John Ioannidis from 2005, we read a very similar paper published 40 years earlier: Neher, A. (1967). Probabilit...

Data from Michigan, USA, systematically document that comparatively fewer students from racial minorities excel in maths and reading, and that this gap grows as students progress through school.

This editorial comes one year after I took the reins of Collabra: Psychology from Simine Vazire. Simine led the journal from 2020 to 2023, and I have had the privilege of working with her during that ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...