Research Colloquia

Last update: September 2026

Items already listed in the last research report, due to partially overlapping reporting periods, are marked with *.

 

Abdellaoui, Abdel
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Robust inference and widespread correlates from genetic associations with personality
19.02.2026

Abdelnabi, Sahar
ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Germany 
Decision heuristics and evaluation sensitivity in large language models: Parallels to cognitive and behavioral phenomena 
05.05.2026 

Abeliuk, Andrés
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
The social impacts of algorithmic decision-making
20.02.2024

Agarwal, Sumit
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
The effects of the Rx Kids unconditional cash prescription programme during pregnancy and infancy on birth outcomes
06.08.2026

Ait Si Abbou, Kenza
International Business Machines Corporation, Berlin, Germany
*AI renaissance? Reflecting on a new era of societal transformation
29.08.2023

Akbik, Alan
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
OpinionGPT: Exploring the impact of biases on large language models
28.09.2023

Al-Badri, Nora
Decolonizing data: AI and technoheritage
27.05.2025

Al-Qassemi, Sultan Sooud
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates/SOAS University of London, UK
*Scientific thought in modern Arab art
28.03.2023

Alemu, Robel
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
GWASs and PGIs: Foundations, potential utility, and methodological limitations
25.04.2024

Amir, Dorsa
University of California, Berkeley, USA
*The development of decision-making across diverse cultural contexts
27.07.2023

Analytis, Panelis P.
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
The committee curse: Why winners in contests are largely overrated
26.09.2024

Anand, Shalya
MCI The Entrepreneurial School, Innsbruck, Austria
*Integration of oral healthcare in cancer care: A societal and healthcare perspective for healthy ageing
16.02.2023

Andrighetto, Giulia
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy/Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Dynamics of social norms under collective risk
25.03.2025

Antes, Nicole / Said, Nadia
University of Tübingen, Germany
The spread of misinformation on social media platforms: A (meta) cognitive perspective
25.07.2024

Arend, Jan
University of Tübingen, Germany
*Stress and the long transformation in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, 1960–2000
18.04.2023

Auer, Sören
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany
Organizing scientific contributions in the open research knowledge graph
02.05.2024

Aydogan, Gökhan
University of Zurich, Switzerland
CHASE: A Bayesian model for characterizing mentalization during strategic interactions
11.07.2024

Ayorech, Ziada
University of Oslo, Norway
Family-based approaches to gene-environment interplay in life course depression
02.05.2024

Bahrami, Bahador
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
The surprisingly positive impact of misinformation on wisdom of crowds
14.11.2024

Baier, Tina
WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
Genetic influences on educational achievement in cross-national perspective
15.05.2025

Bakker, Michiel
Google DeepMind, London, UK/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences
18.04.2023

Baranyi, Gergő
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Healthy aging in place: Integrating the life-course perspective in neighbourhood effects research
27.09.2023

Barense, Morgan
University of Toronto, Canada
Enhancing real-world event memory
03.12.2025

Barnard, Matt
ICF International, Inc., London, UK
Beyond COM-B: An integrated model of behaviour for diagnosing barriers and designing interventions
10.09.2026 

Bartels, Maike
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
The power of wellbeing
04.11.2025

Becchio, Cristina
Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
Mindreading in motion
18.02.2025

Beermann, Vincent
Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Personalized insights, collective impact? Findings from field experiments on resource conservation
17.04.2025

Beheim, Bret A.
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Cycles cohorts and the Zeitgeist: Using big data to reveal the forces of cultural evolution
28.05.2024

Bertram, Lars
Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
Genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease
12.03.2023

Bifone, Angelo
University of Turin, Italy
Deep learning and complex networks: Transforming diagnostic and functional MR
03.09.2024

Binz, Marcel
Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Foundation models of human cognition
24.03.2026 

Blasi, Damián
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
The computational wealth of linguistic diversity
28.04.2026 

Boker, Steve
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Psychometrics and large language models: What can be learned and what can go wrong
05.06.2024

Boker, Steve
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Path diagrams and function nodes: A proposed extension to SEM
04.06.2025

Boldt, Annika
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, UK
*Metacognitive monitoring and control
10.08.2023

Brandt, Lasse
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Computational environmental neuroscience
03.02.2026

Brase, Gary
Kansas State University, Manhatten, USA
How to incite scientific revolutions: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration
21.11.2024

Brass, Marcel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
The sensorimotor underpinnings of group contagion and social conformity
25.01.2024

Brass, Marcel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Group influences on motor and social cognition: A virtual group approach
05.11.2024

Brick, Timothy
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Deep data: Emerging approaches using deep learning for data transformation
19.06.2024

Brooks, Robert
UNSW Sydney, Australia
An ecological and evolutionary view of how 21st century technologies might influence human lives and evolution
29.04.2025

Broska, David Sebastian
Stanford University, USA
The mixed subjects design: Treating large language models as potentially informative observations
07.08.2025

Brown, Chris
University of Southampton, UK
Exploring democratic intelligence: From epistemic design in schools to a system-level index
16.04.2026

Brown, Gordon D. A.
Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, UK
*Nationalism, income inequality and identity: Model and data
17.08.2023

Bruckner, Rasmus
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Understanding learning through uncertainty and bias
12.02.2025

Bruttel, Lisa V.
University of Potsdam, Germany
Does communication increase the precision of beliefs?
21.03.2024

Buder, Jürgen
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany
From selective exposure to selective response
23.11.2023

Burton, Jason W.
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
*Algorithmic amplification for collective intelligence
23.03.2023

Burzynska, Agnieszka
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
The elephant matter: White matter is neither a white elephant nor an elephant in the room
11.06.2025

Butler, Lucas
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
The empirical child? A framework for investigating how children learn to engage in the scientific process
08.02.2024

Byelikova, Yuliya
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Between stay and return: High-skilled Ukrainian women in Germany
05.03.2026

Cabeza, Roberto
Duke University, Durham, USA
How is memory affected by the way information is stored in the brain?
09.07.2025

Caffier, John
*Human (group) decision-making and adaptive rationality
21.02.2023

Calvano, Emilio
Luiss Guido Carli, Bologna, Italy/Toulouse School of Economics, France
Artificial intelligence algorithmic recommendations and competition
14.05.2024

Capraro, Valerio
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Epistemological fault lines between human and artificial intelligence
07.07.2026 

Cardoso Llach, Daniel
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
The agencies, interfaces, and metaphors of design machines
24.09.2024

Carroll, Stuart
University of York, UK
*Enmity and violence in early modern Europe
27.06.2023

Carstensen, Laura L.
Stanford University, USA/Stanford Center on Longevity, USA
Emotional well-being and age: The role of shifting tme horizons
09.10.2024

Castellano, Ginevra
Uppsala University, Sweden
Trustworthy and ethical human-robot interactions: Building social robots for good
13.05.2025

Casten, Lucas
MPI of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Mechanisms underlying human migration
07.05.2026 

Cecil, Charlotte
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide associations between DNA methylation at birth and childhood cognitive skills
12.12.2023

Cha, Meeyoung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
*Making discoveries for humanity and society with data science
11.01.2023

Chalup, Stephan
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Topological and geometric insights for 4D vision, environmental perception, and humanoid robotics
04.02.2025

Cheesman, Rosa
University of Oslo, Norway
Direct and indirect genetic effects on early neurodevelopmental traits
24.04.2025

Chen, Huili
University of Toronto, Canada
Understanding and epistemic trust in intelligent machines
02.07.2026 

Clewett, Dave
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Neuromodulatory signals shape the organization of episodic memory
20.05.2026 

Courtin, Emilie
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The effect on women's health of extending parental leave: A quasi-experimental registry-based cohort study
16.01.2025

Cox, Simon
The University of Edinburgh, UK
Predictors of neurocognitive ageing across time and space
09.06.2026

Czamara, Darina
MPI of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Breastfeeding association with DNA methylation in the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium
15.01.2026

Dadvand, Payam
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
How to publish effectively: A focus on environmental health journals
11.02.2025

Dajani, Rana
Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin, Germany
Bioethics recommendations to increase culturally informed global health survey research: A framework for centering community engagement
21.02.2024

David, Joseph E.
Sapir Academic College, Scha’ar HaNegev, Israel/Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, USA
The fate of authorship in the age of AGI: Conceptual disruption and adaptive strategies
02.06.2026 

de Kort, Yvonne
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Unraveling person-environment relationships: Light on the nature of everyday contexts
24.02.2026 

Delalande, Nicolas
SciencesPo, Paris, France
The moral economy of transnational solidarity: Emotions, money, and reciprocity between European workers
05.12.2023

Denison, Stephanie
University of Waterloo, Canada
How children use probability in social inferences
20.06.2024

Deniz, Tindaya
Leipzig University, Germany
The development of deliberate and strategic ignorance
06.08.2026 

Dennis, Matthew J.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Creative machines and human wellbeing: Is creativity a necessary part of the good life?
04.03.2025

Desjarlais, Robert
Sarah Lawrence College, New York, USA
*Wound images: Photography and violence in (post)colonial France and Algeria
25.04.2023

di Paolo, Laura Desiree
University of Sussex, UK
XSCAPE – Material Minds: Artefacts, prediction, and the cognitive life of things
20.01.2026

Diakopoulos, Nicholas
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
*Anticipating impacts: AI governance and the question of foresight
23.05.2023

Ditlmann, Ruth
Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
Participating in a digital history project mobilizes people for symbolic justice and liberal democracy
29.08.2024

Dolan, Paul
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sleeping with the enemy? Passion, politics, and polarisation
07.03.2024

Donkin, Chris
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Getting rid of bias in decision making
30.11.2023

Dracheva, Alina
Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Naturalistic action sampling as foraging in the option space
12.05.2026

Dragostinov, Yavor
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
PGIs and measurement correction
02.07.2026

Drakman, Annelie
Stockholm University, Sweden
Joy in science: Analysing positive emotions in self-descriptions by Nobel laureates in physics
23.11.2023

Drexl, Josef
MPI for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Generative AI and democracy and why this matters for copyright law
02.06.2026

Duncan, Greg
University of California, Irvine, USA
Cash transfers and their effect on maternal and young children’s health
19.01.2026

Ebad Fardzadeh, Haghish
University of Oslo, Norway
A dimensional perspective on self-destructive decision making
15.10.2024

Ebner, Natalie
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Train your brain: Boosting cognition in aging with real-time fMRI neurofeedback
01.07.2026 

Eichstaedt, Johannes
Stanford University, USA/Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), USA
Improving mental health through digital text and large language models
17.06.2025

El Hady, Ahmed
University of Konstanz, Germany
*Dynamic models of group foragers
19.01.2023

Elbæk, Christian T.
Aarhus University, Denmark
Conducting megastudies: The case of the mega inequality project
13.05.2025

Engel, Christoph
MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
The law: An impossible discipline?
27.01.2026 

Engelmann, Severin
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
LLMs' pluralistic compatibility
29.10.2025

Evans, James
The University of Chicago, USA
*Accelerating science with human-aware artificial intelligence
11.07.2023

Fazio, Lisa K.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
*Misinformation: Why is it a problem?
25.04.2023

Fehrler, Sebastian
University of Bremen, Germany
Similarity and consistency in algorithm-guided exploration
09.04.2024

Floreano, Dario
EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Data-driven body-machine interfaces
28.01.2025

Flurin Hendry, Manuel
Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland/ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Friendly fire at the shrink
21.05.2026 

Frach, Leonard
University College London, UK
Intergenerational transmission of risk for externalizing behaviours: Causal inference and genetically informed approaches
11.09.2024

Francis, Kathryn
University of Leeds, UK
Virtual moral labs: How VR has changed our understanding of moral decision-making
15.04.2025

Frank, Michael C.
Stanford University, USA
*Bigger data about smaller people: Studying language learning at scale
11.07.2023

Füssel, Marian
University of Göttingen, Germany
*Feelings in the lecture hall: A practical history of academic teaching in the eighteenth century
14.02.2023

Fuławka, Kamil
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Divisive propaganda in online political discourse
12.02.2026

Fuller, Roslyn
Solonian Democracy Institute, Dublin, Ireland
Delusions and democracy
10.04.2025

Galizia, C. Giovanni
University of Konstanz, Germany
Do honeybees dream?
30.01.2025

García Gallego, Julian
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Epistemic social dilemmas: Strategic interactions in debate and peer review
15.07.2025

Gennetian, Lisa
Duke University, Durham, USA
Poverty reduction and childhood opportunity moves: A randomized trial of cash transfers to low-income U.S. families with infants
05.03.2026

Ghirardi, Gaia
University of Bologna, Italy
Compensating or boosting genetic propensities? Gene-family socioeconomic status interactions by educational outcome selectivity
03.04.2025

Gill, Rupert
Ofcom, London, UK
Using boosts to improve online safety: Lessons learned from the UK's communications regulator
13.06.2024

Girnberg, Nir
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Scheva, Israel
Supersharers of fake news on Twitter
12.08.2025

Gische, Christian
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Graph-based causal inference using parametric structural equation models
04.09.2024

Goel, Vinod
York University, Toronto, Canada
*Tethered rationality: A model of behavior for the real world
13.07.2023

Goering, Marlon
Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Examining health behaviors as mechanisms linking earlier pubertal timing with accelerated epigenetic aging in late adolescence
20.11.2024

Gould Van Praag, Cassandra
The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
Off the beaten PI track
24.09.2024

Gritsenko, Daria
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Bounded rationality in political judgment: Cognitive effort reduction in public evaluations of algorithmic governance
28.05.2026

Grossmann, Igor
University of Waterloo, Canada
Cultivating wisdom through metacognition: A new frontier in decision-making under radical uncertainty
12.06.2025

Grossmann, Tobias
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
The social self in the developing brain
07.07.2026 

Günther, Anja
University of Hildesheim, Germany
Who innovates and why? Understanding individual differences in rodent innovation
07.04.2026

Günther, Fritz
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Data-driven computational models of exemplar and prototype representations
10.10.2024

Hafiz, Nicklas
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Design of experiments for simulation studies: Comparing strategies using surrogate models
21.01.2026

Hagenbeek, Fiona
University of Helsinki, Finland
The impact of polygenic score and socioeconomic status in predicting risk for 19 complex diseases
18.09.2024

Hajdinjak, Mateja
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Plön, Germany
Tracing origins of modern humans using extant and ancient genomes
18.04.2024

Halpern-Meekin, Sarah
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Parental relationship churning and adolescent well-being: Examining instability within families
19.03.2026 

Han, The Anh
Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
Leveraging voluntary commitments for advancing cooperation and AI safety: A game theoretical approach
19.03.2024

Hannikainen, Ivar R.
University of Granada, Spain
Authorial credit and trust in LLMs: Artifice or estrangement?
29.10.2024

Harden, Kathryn Paige
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Genetic research on social science phenotypes: Risks, benefits, and interpretive challenges
04.07.2024

Harden, Kathryn Paige
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Original sin book club
02.06.2026 

Hart, Emma
Boston College, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, USA
Fadeout of early interventions
26.05.2026 

Hartley, Catherine A.
New York University, USA
*Developing behavioral flexibility
20.04.2023

Hauser, Karl
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
True nudges and true boosts (and hybrids): Why does the distinction matter? A conceptual framework and evidence from an economic laboratory experiment
07.07.2026

Henning, Arian
MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
Algorithmic explanations in the field
11.02.2025

Hilbe, Christian
Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Linz, Austria
The evolutionary game theory of cooperation social norms and modesty
16.01.2024

Hitzer, Bettina
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
All about love? The history of child adoption in West Germany
13.02.2024

Hołyst, Janusz
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Why does history surprise us?
12.02.2026 

Hurlburt, Russ T.
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
25 things to know about pristine inner experience
24.03.2026

Hussain, Zakir
University of Basel, Switzerland
*Humanizing language models: Exploring behavioral and brain data as language model inputs
07.09.2023

Ibáñez, Agustín
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
The brain health synercome
21.07.2026

Ibbett, Katherine
University of Oxford, UK
Jaques Cartier: Empire, emotion, translation
23.01.2024

Idels, Ofer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
*The Hebrew experience: Revolutions, Jewish life in modern Palestine and the history of emotions
24.01.2023

Isenberg, Andrew
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Biophilia: The history of an idea
07.11.2024

Janata, Petr
University of California, Davis, USA
From melodies to memories
19.03.2025

Janmaat, Karline R. L. / van Berlo, Evy
Leiden University, Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The foraging mind: Insights from comparative studies on primate foraging cognition in the field and in the zoo
09.11.2023

Jarecki, Jana
University of Basel, Switzerland
*Testing cognitive process heuristics in human category inferences
23.02.2023

Jersak, Simon
Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany
*Entwicklung von "Boosts" zur Förderung von Entscheidungskompetenz im Ökonomieunterricht
01.06.2023

Judd, Nicholas
Stockholm University, Sweden
Wildfire pollution exposure during childhood adversely affects cognitive and neural development
08.04.2026

Kalousová, Lucie
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Neighborhood poverty exposure over the adult life course and cognitive outcomes in later life
06.11.2024

Karlsson, Anna
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Context reactivation in CA1 is linked to age differences in associative memory
20.03.2024

Karlsson, Anna
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Reduced memory specificity in older age is linked to altered alpha/beta desynchronization
19.02.2025

Kashima, Yoshihisa
The University of Melbourne, Australia
*The psychology of cultural dynamics
27.06.2023

Kato, Jun
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan/Arch Research, New York, USA
Being a toolsmith researcher: A constructive approach to science of tools?
04.02.2025

Kaufmann, Thomas
University of Göttingen, Germany/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
*Hatred, indignation, bitterness: Expressions of emotion in the Peasants' War 1525
06.06.2023

Keshmirian, Anita
Forward College, Berlin, Germany/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Utilitarian boosts in group moral judgment: Humans and multi-agent LLMs
25.11.2025

King, Andrew
Swansea University, UK
Adaptive decision making by baboons in human changed landscapes
02.11.2023

Kis, Hunor
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Assessing neural computations supporting memory in early ontogeny using a latent variable approach
05.11.2025

Kleberg, Johan Lundin
Stockholm University, Sweden
Williams syndrome: What a rare genetic condition can teach us about social motivation and perception
11.03.2025

Kloidt, Juliane
University of Glasgow, UK
The bright side of stress: Advancing eustress theory and measurement
05.09.2024

Kneer, Markus
University of Graz, Austria/Guilty Minds Lab, Zurich, Switzerland
Value forks
06.05.2025

Köbis, Nils
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Intro to the RC trust
21.04.2026 

Kohn, Stefan
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Fractal analysis of brain shape formation predicts age and genetic similarity in human newborns
18.02.2026

Kopsacheilis, Orestis
Technical University of Munich, Germany
*Order effects in preference elicitations
09.03.2023

Kosfeld, Michael
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Measuring economic preferences with behavioral experiments and surveys across the globe
23.07.2026 

Kopsacheilis, Orestis
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Conditional cooperation under uncertainty: The social description-experience gap
27.05.2025

Kosyakova, Yuliya
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany
Effects of uncertainty about intentions to stay and return on the human capital investments of refugees
05.12.2024

Krekel, Christian
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts?
14.07.2026

Krishnamurthy, Meena
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
*Martin Luther King Jr. on fearlessness and faith
13.06.2023

Kroupin, Ivam
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
From village to metropolis: Predictable and pervasive changes to visual and cognitive environments as a function of general evolutionary pressures
02.12.2025

Kubin, Emily
RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
*Confronting polarization: How the media can combat partisan animosity
09.02.2023

Kübler, Dorothea
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
*Aversion to hiring algorithms: Transparency, gender profiling, and self-confidence
16.03.2023

Kuper-Smith, Benjamin James
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Loss avoidance during cooperation
11.03.2025

Kurzweil, Amy
The New Yorker, San Francisco, USA
Artificial: A love story
21.11.2024

Leibo, Joel Z.
Google DeepMind, London, UK/King's College London, UK
*Multiagent artificial general intelligence
28.02.2023

Lejarraga, Tomás
University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
The robust beauty of small recent samples
28.07.2026 

Levine, Sydney
Google DeepMind, London, UK/New York University, USA
*Moral flexibility in human and machine minds
09.05.2023

Lewandowsky, Stephan
University of Bristol, UK
When tolerance erodes democracy: Interventions against public acceptance of norm violations by politicians
30.07.2026 

Liu, Yunzhe
Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China/State Key Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China
Development of human cognitive map
26.03.2025

Lövdén, Martin
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Plasticity across the lifespan: The enduring impact of early-life influences
15.07.2025

Maalej, Walid
University of Hamburg, Germany
On AI-inspired software design
20.05.2025

Magnuson, Katherine
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Perinatal interventions for parents with exposure to adverse childhood experiences
05.02.2026 

Makhotina, Katja
University of Bonn, Germany
*Love and loyalty: Family conflicts in eighteenth-century Russia as reflected in private petitions
02.05.2023

Malanchini, Margherita
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Noncognitive skills in education: Investigating the interplay between genes, environments, and development
13.06.2024

Marella, William
Columbia University, New York, USA
FraminghamPACE
10.09.2026 

Marioni, Riccardo
The University of Edinburgh, UK
Epigenetic biomarkers of the environment, lifestyle and disease
26.08.2026 

Marks, Susan
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
*On dignity
17.01.2023

Martín Moruno, Dolores
University of Geneva, Switzerland
*Moral economies of care: Gender, experiences and humanitarian knowledge(s)
07.02.2023

Massari, Filippo
Università di Bologna, Italy
Good biases in misspecified learning
19.03.2026

Mazurel, Hervé
University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
The psyche and the social-historical: "Troubles d'époque et sensibilités collectives" (19th–21st century)
16.01.2024

Mechera-Ostrovsky, Tehilla
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
From verbal reports to model validation: Theoretical framework and application
30.11.2023

Medvedovska, Anna
"Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, Dnipro, Ukraine/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
*The Holocaust in Ukraine through the prism of national resentment
10.01.2023

Miller, Johnny
Unequal Scenes: How photography can communicate disparities
29.04.2025

Miller, Tim
The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Why your AI decision support tool probably doesn't work and why it is so *#$# hard to get it to do so
23.09.2025

Mittner, Matthias
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Towards understanding the neural basis of spontaneous fluctuations in attention and mind wandering
21.05.2025

Moeller, Hans-Georg
University of Macau, China
AI, gods, and selves: Incredibly effective illusions
16.06.2026 

Moffitt, Terrie
Duke University, Durham, USA
Measuring ageing the longitudinal way: The pace of ageing in the Dunedin Study
10.07.2024

Morosoli, José
University College London, UK
Mental health genetics in context: From public understanding to intergenerational risk
17.09.2026 

Moser, Julia
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Advancing precision functional brain imaging in infants
12.03.2025

Mossing, Miriam
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Music as a model for skill learning: Insights from twin and genetic studies
03.06.2025

Mulder, Jeroen
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Causal inference in cross-lagged panel research
09.10.2024

Muthukrishna, Michael
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Moving beyond WEIRD samples
15.08.2024

Muttenthaler, Lukas
Aignostics, Munich, Germany/Technical University of Munich, Germany
Human alignment of neural network representations
20.08.2024

Nassar, Matt
Brown University, Providence, USA
Dynamic representations for behavioral flexibility
17.01.2024

Nassar, Matt
Brown University, Providence, USA
Towards testing and generalizing a latent state transition theory of arousal
29.05.2024

Nassauer, Anne
University of Erfurt, Germany
The power of interaction: How situations shape social outcomes
06.06.2024

Nassauer, Anne
University of Erfurt, Germany
Attention, avoidance, and the everyday production of authoritarian rule
19.11.2025

Neufeld, Janina
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Twin studies on the link between synaesthesia, autism, psychiatric conditions and altered perception
10.12.2024

Neufeld, Janina
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
The etiology of synesthesia and its links to autism and mental health
24.09.2025

Newcombe, Nora S.
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Thinking about how we study episodic memory development
16.04.2026

Niediek, Johannes
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Reinforcement learning to model complex rat behavior
10.09.2025

Norman, Hjalmar Nobel
KarolinskaInstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
An fMRI meta-analysis of prediction and prediction error in autism
19.08.2025

Norwood, Sabrina
University of Bern, Switzerland
Predicting and changing digital behaviour requires understanding its purpose: The case for a functional approach
25.06.2026

Nyholm, Sven
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
*Ethical accident algorithms for autonomous vehicles and the trolley problem: Three philosophical disputes
26.09.2023

Ochi, Ikuno
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
How is memory selected and presented by tour guides at Berlin's war heritage sites
13.03.2025

Offerman, Theo
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
AI-powered promises: The influence of ChatGPT on trust and trustworthiness
09.07.2024

Okon-Singer, Hadas
University of Haifa, Israel
Cognitive biases in mental disorders: From evidence to intervention
28.01.2026

Oktar, Kerem
Princeton University, USA
Cognitive mechanisms of social controversies
06.03.2025

Onnasch, Linda
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
*Anthropomorphic robot design: A differentiated look at the effectiveness of humanlike cues in HRI
21.03.2023

Orben, Amy
University of Cambridge, UK
Rethinking how we study digital technologies and their impact on teen mental health
25.06.2024/27.06.2024

Palminteri, Stefano
Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris (ENS), France
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
18.07.2024

Papageorgiou, Danai
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
*Social structure, collective decision-making, and responses to inequality in animal societies
02.02.2023

Paul, Laurie A.
Yale University, New Haven, USA
Value by acquaintance
04.06.2025

Paulo de Lima Camillo, Lucas
Shift Bioscience, Cambridge, UK
Histone modification clocks for robust cross-species biological age prediection and elucidating senescence regulation
05.06.2025

Peetz, Johanna
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Money matters: Strategies for sticking to financial goals
01.08.2024

Penalba Sánchez, Lucía
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Investigating ageing and MCI with multimodal MRI: A focus on the LC-NA system
26.02.2025

Pfänder, Jan
Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Strengthening trust in climate scientists in the US: A megastudy approach
21.05.2026

Pisarzowski, Chantal
Reimagining history with conversational digital twins
14.01.2025

Pisor, Anne / Smith, Kristopher
Washington State University, USA
How long-distance friendships help – or sometimes hinder – collective action
01.02.2024

Pleskac, Tim J.
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Blinded versus unblinded review: A field study on the equity of peer-review processes
12.10.2023

Plomin, Robert
King's College London, UK
Nature, nurture and nonshared environment in cognitive development
23.05.2024

Poetsch, Anna
TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Deep neural networks and the prediction of genome instablity in cancer
30.01.2025

Pohlmann, Andreas
Introducing 'Scopter': A new way of seeing
30.09.2025

Proctor, Robert N.
Stanford University, USA
Origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition
24.06.2024

Prokopenko, Mikhail
The University of Sydney, Australia
Self-reference, meta-simulation and biological arrow of time
18.08.2026 

Pykälä, Maria
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Algorithm-augmented cumulative cultural evolution
24.06.2025

Rabinovitch, Hagai
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Scheva, Israel
*(Ir)relevant or not? Intuitive correction of irrelevant information in selection decisions
26.01.2023

Raffin, Anne
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Seeking belonging overseas after retirement: Case studies of working-class Japanese and French retirees in Southeast Asia
27.11.2025

Rainey, Paul B.
MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
Forging new evolutionary individuals
25.08.2026 

Ramírez, María Alejandra
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Game manipulators: The strategic implications of binding contracts
05.11.2024

Ramminger, Josh Joseph
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Values and choices: What follows from a value-based account of autonomy for behavioural public policy?
26.06.2025

Ratcliffe, Eleanor
University of Surrey, Guilford, UK
The psychological benefits of listening to birdsong
04.06.2025

Reuben, Aaron
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Lifespan neuropsychiatric consequences of early life lead exposure
14.01.2025

Richter, David
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
*The personality of inherited and self-made millionaires
24.08.2023

Rieger, Tobias
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Human-automation interaction is doomed to fail: Or is it?
07.11.2024

Ronzani, Piero
ISDC – International Security and Development Center gGmbH, Berlin, Germany
Towards the study of world misinformation
04.09.2025

Rossi, Eleonora
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Understanding the nature of neurocognitive plasticity across the life-span: Multimodal approaches reveal dynamic effects of bilingualism for language and cognition
24.06.2026

Ruggeri, Azzurra
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Ecological active learning across development: Trajectories, mechanisms and opportunities for intervention
01.07.2025

Sacu, Seda
Heidelberg University, Germany
Influences of early life environments on decision-making and reward processing
30.04.2026

Sánchez, Anxo
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
A mathematical description of decision making processes involving norms and its experimental validation
21.05.2024

Saral, Ali Seyhun
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Effects of social learning biases on collective innovation: The role of subjective appeal (and more)
07.05.2024

Schedl, Markus
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Cognitive biases in AI-based ranking systems
06.02.2025

Scheibehenne, Benjamin
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
*What's in a sample? How sampling information affects epistemic uncertainty and risk-taking
29.06.2023

Schertz, Kathryn
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Outside one’s self: How urban nature experiences shape self-perspective
31.03.2026

Schimmelpfennig, Daniel
CTTF – Council on Transpersonal and Transmutable Futures, Tallinn, Harju, Estonia
Disruptive anticipation
02.10.2025

Schlegelmilch, René
University of Bremen, Germany
Feedback count(s): Re-integrating experience-based learning theories and the case of probabilistic feedback
13.02.2024

Schoeler, Tabea
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Social interaction effects between geographically tied individuals
01.10.2026

Schommartz, Iryna
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Neural correlates and reinstatement of recent and remote memory: A comparison between children and young adults
19.06.2025

Schonberg, Tom
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Non-reinforced preference change
03.04.2024

Schwaba, Ted
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Personality genomics
30.07.2026 

Scopelliti, Irene
University of London, UK
*Debiasing decision making with training interventions
14.09.2023

Shapiro, Jacob N.
Princeton University, USA
Accelerator: Speeding research on the information environment
29.02.2024

Sibitenda, Harriet
Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda
Modeling health narratives and risk perception using population scale text data
26.03.2026

Siebenhüner, Kim
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Remorse: From inquisition to emotion research?
30.01.2024

Skeggs, Amira
University of Cambridge, UK
Youth voices of digital harm: A micro-narrative approach to capturing lived experience at scale
10.07.2025

Skotida, Pinelopi
Ofcom, London, UK
Using serious games to tackle romance fraud
24.10.2024

Soldan, Anja
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Preclinical Alzheimer’s disease: Understanding biomarkers and risk and protective factors
28.05.2025

Sommer, Andreas Urs
University of Freiburg, Germany
Friedrich Nietzsche und der Wille zum Nichtwissen / Nietzsche's will not to know
16.10.2024

Spiers, Hugo
University College London, UK
How the built environment affects spatial behavior, brain activity and aesthetics
15.04.2025

Spiliopoulos, Leonidas
On the effectiveness of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns: Pan metron ariston
15.02.2023

Sra, Misha
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Augmenting humans
11.06.2024

Stahn, Alexander
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Brains on ICE and in weightlessness: Are our brains ready for extreme environments?
21.01.2025

Starr, Alexandra
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Within- and between-family genetic effects on educational achievement vary across countries and ages
12.02.2026 

Steinbeis, Nikolaus
University College London, UK
Control as a core mechanism of positive development
22.05.2024

Störmer, Viola
Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
More than meets the eye: How context shapes what we see and remember
02.07.2025

Sühr, Tom
MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
Do personality tests generalize to large language models?
09.01.2024

Sureau, Timm / Götzelmann, Thomas
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany/Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
*Digitalising bureaucracies: The intermingling of legalistic and corporate sentiments
16.05.2023

Svetinovic, Davor
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Privacy is not enough: How infrastructure governs machine behavior in decentralized markets
04.08.2026 

Teckentrup, Vanessa
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland
Understanding neural and behavioural dynamics in daily life: Insights from microlongitudinal and neurostimulation approaches
13.05.2026 

Teodorescu, Kinneret
Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Learning to cheat: Studying violation behavior and dishonesty in repeated settings
14.11.2023

Tiede, Kevin
University of Erfurt, Germany
Pluralistic ignorance in climate action: Generalization, mechanisms, and consequences
21.08.2025

Tissink, Elleke
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
United efforts: Combining neuroimaging and genetics to unravel the human brain
17.01.2024

Toyokawa, Wataru
University of Konstanz, Germany
*A model of cultural evolution with risky technological traits
07.03.2023

Trejo, Sam
Princeton University, USA
Genetic myths of destiny and race
11.04.2024

Tuchtfeld, Erik
MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
The first of its kind: The EU's AI Act as an attempt to comprehensively regulate the use of artificial intelligence
02.07.2024

Tucker-Drob, Elliot
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Empirical and conceptual issues in the genetics of cognitive aging and dementia
20.06.2024

Ullrich, Hannes
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany/University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Machine predictions and human decisions with variation in payoffs and skill: The case of antibiotic prescribing
03.06.2025

Ungeheuer, Michael
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
A cognitive foundation for perceiving uncertainty
07.05.2024

Unwin, Tim
University of London, UK
Towards emancipatory practice: Why digital is not serving the poorest and most marginalised – and what to do about it
31.07.2025

Usami, Satoshi
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Longitudinal data analysis for inferring within-person relations: Recent methodological issues in model selection and estimation
02.09.2026 

Vakli, Pál
Brain Imaging Centre, Budapest, Hungary/HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
BrainAgeMap: Predicting the regional biological age of the human brain from structural MRI using machine learning
05.03.2025

Vallinder, Aron
Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Cultural evolution of cooperation among LLM agents
01.04.2025

van Dongen, Jenny
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Epigenetic studies in twins
04.11.2025

Verhoeven, Claudia
Cornell University, Ithaka, USA/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
"The love and terror cult": A revolutionary history of the Manson family
06.02.2024

Verlaine, Michel
ICN Business School, Nancy, France
Ecological rationality and the maximum entropy heuristic: Potential applications in financial economics
22.05.2025

Verschooren, Sam
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Charting the flux of attention: Transition dynamics of external and internal attention across on- and off-task states
08.01.2025

Wagner, Verena
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Bracketing: How we set beliefs aside
18.06.2026

Walhovd, Krstine
University of Oslo, Norway
Timing of influences on brain and cognition across the lifespan
26.11.2024

Watanabe, Katsumi
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
*Unconscious behavioral/social contagion in humans
07.03.2023

Weber, Elke U. / Ludwig, Jonas
Princeton University, USA; Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Introducing the Center for Environmental Decisions in Berlin
14.01.2025

Weber, Fabian
Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, Germany
Compassion mobilised: Emotional agitation against Kosher Slaughter and "Jewish Cruelty"
12.12.2023

Weber, Jan
University of Tübingen, Germany
Understanding the multifaceted nature of neural dynamics in the human prefrontal cortex
17.07.2024

Weber, Lilian
Osnabrück University, Germany
Rethinking reinforcement learning in biological agents: The role of internal states and inference in generating reward signals
23.04.2026

Wedow, Robbee
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Genetics research ethics, outreach, communication, and education
27.06.2024

Weinzierl, Stefan
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Soundscape studies in the laboratory: Uncovering the perceptual dimensions of road traffic noise
01.04.2025

Weiss, Alexa
Bielefeld University, Germany
Delegation of moral decisions
10.12.2024

Wertz, Jasmin
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Parenting and the intergenerational transmission of (dis-)advantage
06.06.2024

White, Mathew
University of Vienna, Austria
From "sure, nature is good" to "okay we need to take this seriously"
09.12.2025

Willems, Yayouk E.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
*Pursuing a career in socio-genomics
24.01.2023

Williams, Hannah
University of Koblenz, Germany
Information and energetic efficiency of collectives moving in dynamic media
04.12.2025

Wineburg, Sam
Stanford University, USA
*What is it about the internet that turns smart people around in circles?
08.06.2023

Wirth, Tony
The University of Sydney, Australia
Coverage algorithms in streams
07.10.2025

Wittmann, Marco K.
University College London, UK
*Dimensionality reduction as a fundamental component process of social cognition
06.04.2023

Woike, Jan K.
University of Plymouth, UK
Like there is no tomorrow: Using games to study future-oriented decision making
03.09.2024

Wolfram, Tobias
Bielefeld University, Germany
Family socioeconomic status compensates and triggers genetic propensity for externalizing behavior on adverse high school outcomes
29.08.2023

Woll, Alexander
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Physical activity, fitness and health: From lifespan development to individualized health enhancing physical activity
12.09.2024

Wood, Brian
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Hadza hunter-gatherer movement ecology and spatial cognition
15.02.2024

Wrzus, Cornelia
Heidelberg University, Germany
Processes of personality development in adulthood: Insights from the past, outlook into the future
04.03.2025

Wu, Charley
University of Tübingen, Germany
Completing the ARC: From reward generalization to compositional compression
27.02.2025

Xie, Siying
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Unveiling feedback processing in visual object representations and their development in infancy
12.11.2025

Xin, Zhaokun
The University of Manchester, UK
Patience and transcendence: Anger in deliverance plays of Late Imperial China
09.01.2024

Xiong, Aiping
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA
Exploring an interdisciplinary approach for misinformation mitigation
01.10.2024

Xu, Bin
Emory University, Atlanta, USA/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
When the state cries and when it doesn't: Politics of sentiments in disasters
31.10.2023

Yanardag, Pinar
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
*Interpretable deep generative models for creativity and human-AI collaboration
06.06.2023

Yasseri, Taha
University College Dublin, Ireland
Three experiments in dyadic collaboration among humans and machines
05.12.2023

Zank, Michael
Boston University, USA
Fear, contempt, and anger: Christian, Jewish, and Islamic blasphemy and attendant emotions
24.10.2023

Zerbi, Valerio
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Integrative imaging: Invasive and non-invasive fMRI explorations of circuits, mental states, and braindynamics
02.10.2024

Ziaei, Maryam
NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Social perception in late adulthood
29.01.2025

Zimmermann, Annette
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Democratizing AI: Why and how
30.09.2025

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