Community infrastructure can have a huge impact on people’s behaviors, attitudes, and habits. How can urban planning improve wellbeing, social cohesion and group identity?

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22^nd place among the best young universities worldwide and 2^nd place in Germany

Behavia‘s academic incubator and alma mater the University of Passau has secured another top result in the Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking for 2020. Among the universities aged 50 or younger, Passau came in 22^nd (out of 414) and 2^nd among all German universities.

Find more information in the official press release (in German language).

Smart designs, settings and services change how we perceive options and ultimately affect our behaviors. Behavioral insights organize these effects in a systematic way and provide a wide range of nudging applications to better achieve an organization’s goals. Well-known examples at the company level are healthy workplace designs, nudges to de-bias recruitment decisions or to increase job satisfaction.

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We are very honored that Dr. Manuel Schubert and Dr. Fahad Alsharif have been invited to present their policy brief at the T20 virtual session.

The policy brief, titled “The G20 Protocol on Forced Migration”, proposes a new governance framework to manage the provision and allocation of host capacities on a global scale. More to come soon.

“How to increase trust in a service app that protects consumer data?” This was the key question behind our project with helix id, a provider of a mobile application that allows users to control third-party access to personal data.

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Second day of the 7th seminar on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins” at Passau University. Today, we focused on moral balancing, overconfidence, decision making under risk, procrastination, and trust. To learn more about our own biases and preferences, we conducted a series of online experiments (the screenshot shows us during an incentive-compatible “marshmallow experiment”). For those who are interested in today’s topics, have a look at the full syllabus below.

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We wish all of you blessed and peaceful Eid Al-Fitr. May you celebrate it every year with your loved ones being safe, well and happy.

© This lovely card was designed by Yusuf Alhumaili.

Kick-off for the 7th seminar on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins” at Passau University, Germany. Super interactive webinar on selfishness, envy, retaliation and moral decay with lots of classic experiments. For those who are interested in the topics, below is the full syllabus of part 1. More to come soon.

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We wish all of you a blessed and peaceful Ramadan and many more blissful times to come. Staysafe.

(c) Image by Tasnin Ahmad from Shutterstock.

Over the next weeks, our Managing Director Dr. Manuel Schubert will organize the 7^th annual seminar on “Behavioral Economics and the Seven Deadly Sins” at Passau University, Germany.

Starting in 2014, this introductory seminar covers a broad range of topics in behavioral economics: why do we fail to stick to our plans, why do we trust others, when do we care for others, how do we perceive chance, or how do moral judgements influence our actions?

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