A study published in The Leadership Quarterly, co-authored by our colleague Kamil Fuławka, compares more than 40,000 people in Germany with 86 chimpanzees to explore the relationship between risk taking and social position.

Our colleague Philipp Lorenz-Spreen has been appointed Professor of Computational Social Science at TUD, a professorship jointly based at the Institute of Media and Communication and at SynoSys.

A new collaborative project with Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Eurosky, and SPRIND explores whether social media recommendation algorithms can strengthen public discourse instead of reinforcing divisions.

The newly founded Open Social Web Alliance (OSWA) brings together researchers, civil society organizations, and digital policy experts to develop a roadmap for open, interoperable, and public interest oriented social networks. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen is among the founding members.

A new paper co-authored by our colleague Kamil Fuławka, published in PNAS, combines behavioral experiments with participants' own explanations of their decisions, analyzed using large language models, to reveal the reasoning behind individual choices.

A new preprint by Kamil Fuławka studies how people can make healthier food choices using simple decision rules.