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John von Neumann Lecture Series: Jürg Fröhlich on «Science and the (Ir)responsibility of Scientists»

Instagram LinkedIn Bluesky Mail — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT

In the annual public lecture organized by the Zurich Center for Market Design features renowned speakers celebrating von Neumann's revolutionary contributions to economics, game theory, and beyond. This year, Prof. em. Dr. Jürg Fröhlich gives the lecture on Friday, May 29th, at 15:00 in the ETH Main Building (HG).

Does love in the ivory tower fix the leaky pipeline? A new study by Antonia Velicu, Manon Fauvelais, Julia Jerke, Heiko Rauhut, and Bruno Lemaitre investigates how homogamous relationships shape careers

LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Mail — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

The motherhood penalty in science: could your partner make a difference? Having children is one of the biggest career obstacles women in academia face. They publish less, get passed over for promotions, and are more likely to leave research altogether. Meanwhile, their male colleagues, even those who also become parents, often continue climbing the ladder unaffected. This imbalance is one of the key reasons fewer women reach senior positions in science, a pattern researchers call the "leaky pipeline." But what if part of the solution was hiding in plain sight?

Large-Scale Study Successfully Replicates About Half of a Sample of Social and Behavioral Science Findings

Instagram LinkedIn Bluesky Mail — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Heinrich Nax co-authors a new study published in Nature, of which implications point to uncertainty—not failure—and a need for more cautious confidence in research claims.

Warum entschleunigte Finanzmärkte guttun - Simon Jantschgi & Heinrich Nax in Die Volkswirtschaft

Instagram LinkedIn Bluesky Mail — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Im Beitrag in «Die Volkswirtschaft» argumentieren Simon Jantschgi und Heinrich Nax, dass Finanzmärkte von einer gezielten Verlangsamung profitieren könnten. Sie zeigen, weshalb das heutige Wettrennen um Geschwindigkeit nicht zwingend ökonomischen Mehrwert schafft.

Prosocial environments promote individual success - a new study by Isabel Raabe, Alexander Ehlert, René Algesheimer, and Heiko Rauhut

Instagram LinkedIn Bluesky Mail — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Does altruism lead to success? The study of 292 students across 16 Swiss school classes shows that altruism doesn’t improve grades directly. Instead, altruistic students are more likely to become embedded in prosocial friendship and cooperation networks, and it is this social embeddedness that predicts better academic outcomes. In short, altruism pays off through the social environments it helps create, highlighting how individual costs can be offset by collective benefits.

What drives scientific misconduct? A new study by Vincent Oberhauser, Antonia Velicu, and Heiko Rauhut identifies alienation and weakened social norms as key factors

LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Mail — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Why do scientists engage in misconduct and what are individual and structural drivers for this behavior? In this new study, the authors examine the hidden social dynamics behind questionable research practices and severe scientific misconduct. Drawing on the Zurich Survey of Academics with survey data from scientists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland their findings challenge a widespread belief: it is not just structural pressure, but feelings of alienation and internalized social norms that shape behavior in science. The study sheds new light on how integrity, norms, and rational choice intersect, and what that means for the future of research culture.

New article on Questionable Research Practices by Antonia Velicu et al.

LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Mail — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

How do Swiss, Austrian, and German scientists view questionable research practices? A new article in Scientometrics by Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, Justus Rathmann, and Heiko Rauhut investigates the connection between scientists’ associations towards scientific misconduct and its relation to perceived academic success.

Simon Jantschgi und Heinrich Nax zu Strafzöllen, Spieltheorie und Strategien

LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Mail — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:00:00 GMT

In der neuesten Ausgabe «Die Volkswirtschaft» ordnen Simon Jantschgi und Heinrich Nax im Artikel «Zölle und Gegenzölle: Wer spielt welches Spiel?» die neuen handelspolitischen Entwicklungen aus spieltheoretischer Sicht ein.

Social Norms Conference 2025

LinkedIn Instagram Bluesky Mail — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:36:45 GMT

From April 30 to May 3, this year's Social Norms Conference on Social Norms Comparison, Conflict, and Change held place at at Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verita, Ascona.

New Article: Sociologists including Fabian Winter on «Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action»

Instagram LinkedIn Bluesky — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

How do people decide when to take action on climate change—and what stops them from doing so? A new study in the prestigious American Sociological Review offers a groundbreaking look at how our beliefs about the past, present, and future of climate change influence whether we take meaningful steps—or remain on the sidelines.

New Article: SUZ Researchers on «Publication bias in the social sciences since 1959»

Instagram LinkedIn Facebook — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Julia Jerke, Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, and Heiko Rauhut explore whether publication bias in the social sciences has been aggravated due to the "publish or perish" culture in academia. They analyzed 12340 test statistics extracted from 571 papers published in 1959-2018.

Workshop to analyse Mobility Networks

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:00:00 GMT

This October the 2^nd workshop/course for students and researchers that are interested in the statistical analysis of mobility networks is hosted in Zurich.

Antonia Velicu successfully defends her PhD thesis

Instagram Facebook LinkedIn — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce that Dr. Antonia Velicu successfully defended her PhD thesis «All that glitters is not gold: Intersectionality and misconduct in science» last week!

New publication: «The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies»

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The article was published on March 25 in «Research Evaluation» by researchers of our «Social Norms & Cooperation» team and analyses data from the Zurich Survey of Academics.

New publication by Nico Mutzner, Vincent Oberhauser, Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut:

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

«Evading the algorithm: increased propensity for tax evasion and norm violations in human-computer interactions»

This Open Access article was published on October 5, 2023, in «Frontiers in Behavioral Enocomics» by researchers of our «Social Norms & Cooperation» team, and is based on the award-winning Master Thesis of Nico Mutzner, who is now our newest doctoral candidate!

New Paper: Niccolò G. Armandola on detecting clans in elite family dynasties with a network approach

Facebook LinkedIn — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:12:39 GMT

Adding to the research on Florentine and English elite family dynasties, Niccolò Armandola applies a new algorithm for detecting clans in kinship networks on Basel's elite families.

New publication: Under pressure: The extent and distribution of perceived pressure among scientists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Publication: Perceptions of Scientific Authorship Revisited: Country Differences and the Impact of Perceived Publication Pressure

Sibille Etling — Sun, 01 May 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Publication: Mapping mental models of science communication

Sibille Etling — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Publication: The Development of Prosociality

Sibille Etling — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:29:35 GMT

Cooperative teammates are made, not chosen

Sibille Etling — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:37:53 GMT

Human social preferences cluster and spread in the field

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