We study how people make wise decisions: in everyday life, across cultures, and over time. Our work sits at the intersection of Social & Cultural Psychology and Judgment & Decision Making, with computational methods and projects on human-AI interactions and AI value alignment.
We combine survey, behavioral, and computational approaches (modeling, NLP, and large-scale analyses), and we preregister studies, share analysis code, and document everything so others can replicate and extend our work.听
is a global, preregistered collaboration led by our lab to map the building blocks of wise judgment across cultures.
- 15 labs 路 5 continents 路 ~3,500+ participants so far.
- Latest update: Preregistration and Study 1 data collection (鈥淟ife鈥檚 most difficult decisions鈥) complete; analyses and design of听 data collection underway.
- Next: data lock 2025-Q4, then analysis and write-up.听
News
WaC Research Featured in Nautilus!
Check out thisin听Nautilus听on new cross-cultural research revealing that, across both traditional and collectivist societies as well as modern and individualistic ones, people tend to prefer trusting their own judgment over following others鈥 advice.
New Publication from WaC Lab Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
We are proud to announce that the WaC Lab has a new article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. Titled 鈥淒ecision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies,鈥 the study represents one of the broadest cross-cultural investigations into decision-making strategies to date.
WaC Research Featured in Haaretz!
Check out this听听in听Haaretz on new cross-cultural research revealing that, across both traditional and collectivist societies as well as modern and individualistic ones, people tend to prefer trusting their own judgment over following others鈥 advice.