Jul 1, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News
The 1st Annual Meeting of the Expert Advisory Committee on Scaling Up Experimental, Social, and Behavioral Science was held on June 30th. Lab Director Duncan Watts, Abdullah Almaatouq, Mark Whiting, Linnea Gandhi, and James Houghton presented an overview of CSS Lab’s...
May 10, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News
Expert Advisory Committee: We are excited to announce the creation of the Expert Advisory Committee for our project “Scaling Up Experimental Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science.” Funded by research grants from the James and Jane Manzi Analytics Fund and Alfred...
Apr 29, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
Coauthored by Lab Director Duncan Watts, the new white paper “Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science” proposes a fundamental rethinking of the model of virtual-laboratory style experiments. It outlines four major changes to the...
Apr 16, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
“A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms,” authored by Lab Director Duncan Watts and coauthor Abigail Jacobs, has been published in Management Science. The paper provides an analysis of a unique data set of aggregated, anonymized email...
Mar 29, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
Abdullah Almaatouq, Joshua Becker, James Houghton, Nicolas Paton, Duncan Watts, and Mark Whiting’s paper “Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments” has been published in Behavior Research Methods. The paper introduces Empirica, a modular...
