Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and
possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments …

Despite widespread conviction that neediness should be a top priority for charitable giving,
this research documents a “charity beauty premium” in which donors often choose beautiful …

Drawing on people's motivation to whet their curiosity, we tested a previously unexplored
solution to reconciling want/should conflicts. Past work has shown that people are motivated …

The literature on serious games and gamification suggests that game elements have a
positive influence on learning and performance in cognitive tasks. However, the …

Numeric labeling of calories on restaurant menus has been implemented widely, but
scientific studies have generally not found substantial effects on calories ordered. The …

More information is available today than ever before, yet at times consumers choose to
avoid it. Even with useful information (I should find out), people may prefer ignorance (But I …

Extensive existing research has studied how decisions differ between joint evaluation (JE)
and single evaluation (SE), but most of the research aims to demonstrate preference …

A lot of academic and industrial HCI work has focused on making interactions easier and
less effortful. As the potential risks of optimising for effortlessness have crystallised in …

Large class sizes pose challenges to personalized learning in schools, which educational
technologies, especially intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), aim to address. In this context, the …

In this project we investigate experimentally the link between self-control and attitude
towards paternalism in a principal-agent framework. This allows us to distinguish between …