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Combating climate change will require sweeping cultural transitions towards sustainable lifestyles and societies. However, clear pathways to achieve global behavior change are severely lacking,…

Prior socio-psychological research has found that a belief in social progress motivates prosocial behaviors as well as emotional and behavioral well-being in individuals (Rutjens et al., 2010).…

Climate-change related decisions have three characteristics that set them apart from other simpler choices. They (i) involve an intergenerational public good, (ii) often require collective action and…

Most tools to assess & diagnose psychological disorders are developed in the West via testing on Western populations, and then used on non-Western populations. We assume these tools are reliable…

Princeton’s Attention Judgment study aims to investigate the ability of the human brain to predict and model the attention of others. Our work is centered around the Attention Schema Theory of…

In the fields of psychology and neuroscience, often researchers seek to study the effect of mood and emotion on measurable characteristics -- such as health, willingness to take risks, and other…

Many researchers have used models and equations to explain how human cooperation evolved. The current research shows that these cooperative behaviors can only spread throughout a population when…

Associate Professor of Psychology Molly Crockett studies how people learn and make decisions in social situations. Their lab's recent work focuses on moral cognition -- how people decide whether…

Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) will present the lecture: “Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk’” Professor Gooding-Williams’s paper, “Du Bois and…

Research on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational questions. However, for algorithmic systems to be useful,…

Princeton University's Office of Disability Services is excited to introduce you to Accommodate. The ODS is happy to provide it's students and faculty with a new way to access accommodation…

SICSS 2019 - Moving beyond simple experiments

SICSS 2019 - What, why, and which experiments?

First-Year Families Weekend 2018: Faculty Lecture. "Psychology and Public Policy" Presented by Betsy Levy Paluck, professor of Psychology and Public Affairs. Princeton University October…