CRED co-director Elke Weber will speak at the Digital Life Design Conference Women in Munich, Germany on July 16th. Dr. Weber will speak on a panel titled “You Can’t Always Get What you Want” with CRED Principal Investigator Eric Johnson. This talk will focus on “Choice architecture,” specifically: how do we arrive at decisions and how can… read more

CRED’s Ultra-Ex research team will set up a table at the Green Thumb Summer Festival in Harlem on July 13th. This festival is a celebration of the past, present and future of the GreenThumb Community Garden Program and will be a great opportunity for CRED to present the findings on the value of community gardens in East Harlem to… read more

On June 15 Dr. Sabine Marx, CRED managing director, will speak on a panel “After Sandy: What can we do about climate change? The panel will take place as part of the Hamptons Institute at Guild Hall in Easthampton, New York. Tickets and more information can be found here: https://www.guildhall.org/learn/hamptons-institute/ Panel Description  1:30 pm AFTER SANDY:… read more

On Wednesday, June 19th 2013, Courtney St. John, associate director for outreach, and Nada Petrovic, postdoctoral research scientist, will speak at the Sachem Public Library in Suffolk County, Holbrook, NY on Long Island. The talk “Hurricanes and Human Behavior: Making Better Decisions” will focus on how environmental conditions are changing in new and different ways,… read more

On May 22, 2013, CRED Codirector Elke Weber spoke at a White House workshop titled “Psychological Science and Behavioral Economics in the Service of Public Policy” in Washington DC. The workshop took place in conjunction with the Association for Psychological Science 25th Annual Convention and was sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy… read more

CRED graduate student Katherine Thompson presented a crash course in psychology to an audience of fire chiefs, emergency managers, city planners, and other first response personnel at this year’s CFED West meeting in Palm Springs. The 90-minute lesson addressed the question of why the public sometimes seems to ignore the threat of natural hazards. Katherine… read more

CRED Codirector Ben Orlove will speak at an Earth Institute Bhutan Symposium on June 11 and 12, 2013. Dr. Orlove’s talk “Social Science Opportunities in Bhutan” will share insights from his work there.

On Thursday May 16th, Dr. Sabine Marx, CRED managing director, will speak on a panel entitled “Can Haitian Story-telling, Imagination and Oral History Traditions Influence Popular Environmental Risk Perception?” Sabine will speak about her work in Haiti. More information is below. To register please click here.   Can Haitian Story-telling, Imagination and Oral History Traditions… read more

On April 25-26, CRED co-director Ben Orlove co-hosted a workshop “Challenges of Water Sustainability in Historical and Ethnographic Perspective” at Harvard University. The workshop brought together anthropologists, development economists, water engineers, historians, urban planners and architects, and archaeologists from the Middle East, South Asia, Japan and the Pacific to present papers in early stages of formulation and… read more

Click here to register Abstract: Careful attention to choice architecture promises to open up new possibilities for environmental protection – possibilities that go well beyond the standard tools of economic incentives, mandates, and bans. How, for example, do consumers choose between environmentally-friendly products or services and alternatives that are potentially damaging to the environment but… read more