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In this podcast we talk with behavioural scientists about their research. We focus on the story behind the papers and discuss the research process from the idea to publication.
How Incentives Can Change What We Believe with Sandro Ambuehl
Behavioural Science Uncovered
15 minutes 22 seconds
4 years ago
How Incentives Can Change What We Believe with Sandro Ambuehl
In this episode, which forms part of a series on ethics in behavioural science research, we talk with Sandro Ambuehl from the University of Zürich about his paper “An Offer You Can’t Refuse? Incentives Change How We Inform Ourselves and What We Believe”. To investigate how economic incentives may skew information gathering and beliefs about what a transaction entails, thus affecting the quality of decisions taken by subjects, he presents a model of costly information acquisition in conjunction with behavioural experiments, one of which includes the ingestion of insects in exchange for money. Tune in for a discussion centred around the project’s design, its ethical and logistical considerations, and on the ethics of incentivising subjects in economic experiments more generally.
Behavioural Science Uncovered
In this podcast we talk with behavioural scientists about their research. We focus on the story behind the papers and discuss the research process from the idea to publication.
