Who we are

This website is currently maintained by the research area Boosting Decision Making at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Let us know how we can improve this website by giving us feedback. Thank you very much!

To get in touch, contact Stefan Herzog.

What is "boosting"?
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Contributors

Coordination Team

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Marlene Wulf

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Conceptualization, prototyping, coordination & maintenance, various contributions throughout the website

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Špela Vrtovec

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Conceptualization, prototyping, coordination & maintenance, various contributions throughout the website

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Stefan Herzog

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Conceptualization, prototyping, coordination & maintenance, various contributions throughout the website

Contributors

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Ana Sofia Morais

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Risk Literacy Boosts, Self-Nudging

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Anastasia Kozyreva

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Digital Boosts

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Astrid Kause

Leuphana University Lüneburg

Climate Boosts

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Nadine Fleischhut

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Conceptualization, prototyping, FAQ

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Digital Boosts

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Ralph Hertwig

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

How to test Boosts, Boosting vs. Nudging

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Samuli Reijula

University of Helsinki

Self-Nudging

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Stefan Lipman

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Conceptualization, Prototyping, FAQ

What we do

How can people learn to recognise fake news? How can children learn to choose a carrot over a cookie?

We draw on knowledge from the behavioral and computational sciences to investigate and promote boosting as a way to improve human judgment and decision making.

We study how probabilistic weather forecasts can best be communicated to emergency managers and the general public, how eating environments can be designed to promote healthy eating habits in children, how the wisdom of crowds can be harnessed to improve medical diagnoses and individual judgments, and how people can be taught to detect and shield themselves from being manipulated by artificial intelligence on social media.

What is "boosting"?
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