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publications
Nudging cooperation in a crowd experiment.
Published in PLoS ONE, 2016
We examine the hypothesis that driven by a competition heuristic, people do not even reflect or consider whether a cooperation strategy may be better (zero-sum game fallacy). We demonstrate that people only cooperate if the competitive heuristic is explicitly overridden.
Recommended citation: Niella, T., Stier-Moses, N., & Sigman, M. (2016). "Nudging cooperation in a crowd experiment." PLoS ONE, 11(1), e0147125. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147125
Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds
Published in Nature Human Behavior, 2018
Research on how deliberation can outperform the wisdom of crowds.
Recommended citation: Navajas, J., Niella, T., Garbulsky, G., Bahrami, B., & Sigman, M. (2018). "Aggregated knowledge from a small number of debates outperforms the wisdom of large crowds." Nature Human Behavior. 2(2), 126. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0273-4
talks
Nudging Agreement in a Polarized Environment
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Comparing policy responses to inequality around the globe
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This talk was part of the “Inequality, Racial Justice and the COVID Crisis” Webinar run by the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. Watch it here
Polarizing Moral Discussions in the U.S. and Argentina: People Reach More Agreement in Face-to-Face Conversations Than We Would Expect
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This talk was part of the “Novel Insights on Morality: Political Polarization, Forecasting Morality, and Moral Machines” Session at SPSP’s Annual Convention.
Radical disagreement and imagining peace
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I was invited to give a joint talk with Eduado F. Gutierrez Gonzalez about our respective doctoral research projects as part of the “Human Rights, Armed Conflict, and the Struggle for Peace” in-person workshop at the University of Oxford, run by the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. More information here
The Psychology & Communication of the Climate Crisis
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I was invited to give a joint talk with Prof. James Astman about my recent work on science communication and climate change morality, as part of the “Human Rights and the Climate Crisis” in-person workshop at the University of Oxford, run by the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. More information here
Stories, Affects, and Trust
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Joint talk with Dr. Justin Sulik, Prof. Ophelia Deroy and Prof. Gloria Origgi on the development of our project about what cues people use to trust in experts. This was part of the “(No) More Stories: The New Challenges of Science Communication” workshop that took place in the context of the CAS Research Group 2021/22: “Persuading under Uncertainty: Challenges and Norms of Science Communication”
teaching
PSY 306: Social Psychology
Undergraduate Course, University of Oregon, Psychology, 2018
Taught on Summer term, 2018 Social psychology is the scientific study of the ways in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by their social environment. The aims of this course are to familiarize you with the concepts, theories, and methods of social psychology and to help you recognize the influence of the environment on behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
PSY 410: Peer Labs training
Undergraduate course, University of Oregon, Psychology, 2018
Taught on Fall, Winter & Spring in 2018, 2019 & 2020 Training sessions for advanced Psychology Majors who will teach lab sessions to PSY202: Mind and Society students. Includes practice sessions and discussions on pedagody.
PSY 301: Scientific Thinking
Undergraduate course, University of Oregon, Psychology, 2021
Taught every Summer, since 2019. Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. But what does it mean to study something scientifically? In this course students will learn some of the foundational principles of how you can apply reasoning to empirical evidence in order to draw conclusions about people.