Featured in BU’s The Brink, July 29, 2021: Nina Mazar is coming up with ways to get more people vaccinated, and positively influence other behaviors related to energy usage, organ donation. For Boston University behavioral scientist Nina Mazar, getting the chance to influence real-world change is the driving force behind her research: What inspires people […]
Susilo Co-Director, Nina Mazar, and her collaborators share with Harvard Business Review their latest insights on if and how organizations can be nudged. Here is the link to the article. Summary: Behavioral economics has shown that nudges can be used to help individuals act in their best interests. But can you apply similar tools to […]
Some thoughts from our co-director, Prof. Nina Mazar, published in the BEworks Choice Architecture Report 2021. For full write-up, click here. Excerpt: “By and large, our society is concerned with advancing progressive issues, emphasizing fairness and social justice. One such issue brought to the forefront particularly in the more recent period is that of diversity […]
October 2019: We are compiling summaries of state-of-the-art research in ethics at the frontier of technology, following the theme of our 2019 Susilo Symposium. Today, we review insights on algorithm aversion from Berkeley Dietvorst (The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business), Joseph Simmons and Cade Massey (both from University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School). […]