BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman

Our first webinar of the academic year is with Professor Eva Vivalt, sharing her research on employment effects of unconditional cash transfers in the United States. 🎦 🔗Register and join the webinar on November 14th to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwEt_vrQ #CashTransfers #Employment #BEARWebinar

Folks wanting to use bisection search methods / approaches to eliciting WTP (willingness to pay) on Qualtrics can use this handy guide (with code) authored by Aman Aggarwal, Jingqi Yu, PhD and Dana (Daniella) Turetski See https://lnkd.in/grnFMBaW (first paper in this list). Avi Goldfarb Katherine Burson Richard Larrick A. Yesim Orhun Pankaj Aggarwal BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman Jordan Hutchings John Lynch Oleg Urminsky Nitin Mehta Dan Goldstein Melanie Kim Alex Henderson

Your contribution to BEAR fuels leading edge academic research and empowers future leaders in the field of behavioural economics and science. The impact of your support: ✍ Conducting innovative research that offer real-world insights into human behaviour and decision-making 🙌 Equipping the next generation with the tools to tackle complex behavioural challenges and drive change as a force for good! 🙏 Join us in making a difference: https://lnkd.in/gwKE3kyc #RotmanGivingDay

Thank you for joining us online for "May Contain Lies" with special thanks to Prof. Alex Edmans! IYCMI: here are two ways to help us separate fact from fiction 👇 1️⃣ Beware of our biases: --Sometimes we forget what we should know (e.g., correlation is *not* causation) and accept evidence uncritically if it confirms what we would like to be true --On the flipside, we also are biased to reject "inconvenient truths" that contradict our world views 2️⃣ Check everything (context matters) Turn the attention to ourselves, and be more discerning about how we interpret information. Try imagining the opposite being true to activate our discernment. 📚https://lnkd.in/gi8373ZZ 🙏 Thank you Prof. Kristen Duke for moderating!

Virtual Event | July 31 | 12 pm - 1 pm | In an age of #digitization and #socialmedia, our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics, and studies exploit our biases, distorting our decisions. So how do we separate fact from fiction? Renowned economist Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, may have the answer. Join the conversation as Edmans shares insights from his latest book and provides practical tips to combat misinformation and make better decisions in conversation with Kristen Duke. Register Now at - ow.ly/JkkV50SEqyl Co-presented by: BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman

Join us on July 31st (online) as we hear from Prof. Alex Edmans on his latest book 👇 "May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics & Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It" Prof. Edmans highlights the biases that cause us to mistake statements for facts, facts for data, data for evidence, and evidence for proof. 🧠 Armed with the knowledge of what to guard against, he shares a practical guide to combat this tide of misinformation, ultimately training us to think smarter, sharper, and more critically. In conversation with BEAR Research Fellow Prof. Kristen Duke 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/gFbx_X3k University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management London Business School

How can organizations narrow the gender promotion gap using choice architecture? GATE PhD Research Fellow alum Joyce He discusses her research (co-authored by Sonia Kang and Nicola Lacetera) on whether changing promotion rules from a system where people have to actively apply (opt in) to one where everyone is automatically considered unless they say otherwise (opt out), reduces any differences between men and women in terms of who gets promoted. *Spoiler alert* 👉 women respond to contextual factors and can be just as likely to compete as men 💬 Read Prof. He's Q&A interview in the latest BI-Org Special Issue of the Rotman Magazine (page 78): https://lnkd.in/gMm7_FM7 📗 Learn more about the study details: https://lnkd.in/g83nmA48 University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman #GenderPromotionGap #ChoiceArchitecture

After many years of serving as the director of BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman, I'm now down to my last week in the role. At the end of this week, I'll pass on the baton to the amazing Tanjim Hossain to direct BEAR's next chapter! I'll still be around at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, teaching and doing research. It's been a fabulous journey with many highlights (the BE101x course on edX, several compiled books, conferences like BIG, B.A.D, SOBDR, very many webinars and book events, the BI-Org partnership, Ph.D. work, a lot of research and work with partners) but the biggest highlight is the long list of amazing people I got to know along the way! You know who you are! Thanks for all the support over the years to me and BEAR, and please continue to provide that to Tanjim Hossain and his team!

Congratulations David Halpern on such an amazing run setting up the unit, building the team and giving it the "legs" to go far in geography and time. All of us at BEAR - Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman and in Canada more generally have also seen your excellence and generosity at supporting related enterprises first hand from your time on our advisory board. Thank you for everything!! University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management Nina Mažar (Mazar) Tanjim Hossain Bing Feng Melanie Kim Impact Canada Elizabeth Hardy The Behavioural Insights Team Sasha Tregebov Michael Hallsworth