Press Releases

31 January

Understanding Who Commits Which Crimes

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02 August

Generous with Individuals and Selfish to the Masses

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15 April

UZH Researchers Find New Measure to Predict Stress Resilience

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20 January

How Fellow Students Improve Your Own Grades

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02 June

Dissecting the Decision Making Process

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20 June

The Richer the Pickings, the more Honest the People

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13 March

Negative Emotions Can Reduce Our Capacity to Trust

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6 February

Morals versus Money: How We Make Social Decisions

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4 February

Monthly Wages Are an Important Step towards Economic Development

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16 January

Nudging Does Not Necessarily Improve Decisions

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14 January

Potential for Risky Behavior is Also in Your Genes

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5 December

Increasing Crop Insurances Adoption in Developing Countries

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4 October

Even Small Gifts Boost Business

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3 August

Lead or Follow: What Sets Leaders Apart?

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28 May

Out in the Cold or One of the Gang: Initial Contacts Set the Scene

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22 February

Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation to Finance New Center for Research into Long-Term Effects of Breastfeeding

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9 October

The Female Brain Reacts More Strongly to Prosocial Behavior

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4 October

More Positions for Doctoral Students in Neuroeconomics

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11 July

Generous people live happier lives

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10 April

Brain stimulation influences honest behavior

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19 October

Overcoming Egocentricity Increases Self-Control 

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12 October

Changing Cultural Attitudes on Female Genital Cutting through Entertainment.

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30 September

Seven new Professorships at the Department of Economics 

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21 April

Mortality Rate of Poor Children in the US is in Decline

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3 March

Brain Connectivity Reveals Hidden Motives

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21 December

Empathy with Strangers can be Learned

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24 September

Female Genital Cutting is Largely a Family Matter and not an All-Pervasive Social Norm

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20 August

Brain Waves Behind Indecisiveness

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9 March

Power Posing Does not Affect Hormones or Financial Risk Taking 

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