How storytelling can motivate us to help others

A new study from Emily Falk’s Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that personal stories—instead of cold facts—make people want to help keep others safe. These findings have significant real-world implications when it comes to planning public health interventions, as they show how messaging can shift an individual’s perspective.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Data Will Save Us

Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to analyze. What’s at stake? Only the future of the free press and perhaps democracy itself.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

The worldwide supply chain, so prized for its efficiency, has struggled to withstand the critical disruptions the pandemic caused and to meet the consumer demands created by an almost-overnight reordering of everyday life. Gad Allon comments in this Wharton Magazine article.

Operations Information and Decisions

Resilience in Networked Systems

Chris Callison-Burch receives the Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising

Chris Callison-Burch was awarded the Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising, which recognizes dedication to helping students realize their educational, career and personal goals. Burch was cited for introducing his students to valuable research opportunities while helping them navigate Penn, especially during the pandemic.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

Why the U.S. Government Should Regulate Cryptocurrency

Kevin Werbach explains why the Biden administration’s executive order to develop a national policy on cryptocurrency is an important step forward on this episode of Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

New COVID-19 roadmap: Four takeaways

A recently released report, based on input from dozens of experts including Dolores Albarracín, lays out a dozen priorities for the federal government to tackle in the next 12 months. The aim: to help guide the U.S. to the pandemic’s ‘next normal.’

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

At the Duke Law Journal, Cary Coglianese offers a framework for determining when government should use artificial intelligence

In a pathbreaking article recently published in the Duke Law Journal, Cary Coglianese and Alicia Lai L’21 explore governmental reliance on digital algorithms, concluding that “public officials should proceed with care on a case-by-case basis” when deciding whether to employ digital algorithms in place of “human algorithms.”

Law
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Dolores Albarracín Elected Fellow of American Academy of Political and Social Science

Dolores Albarracín was among seven scholars elected by the AAPSS to its 2022 cohort and was named the academy’s 2022 Harold Lasswell Fellow. The AAPSS described Albarracín as “a scholar of communications and behavior who focuses on persuasion, especially in interventions aimed at promoting public health."

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Black Lives Matter Movement, but not COVID-19, Encouraged Voters Toward Biden in the 2020 Election

A new study from Diana Mutz offers the first evidence that the Black Lives Matter movement encouraged swing voters more toward Biden than toward Trump. The study also found that concern about COVID-19 and the dramatic drop in GDP that ensued, had little effect on vote choice.

Communication
Political Science

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Konrad Kording Appointed Co-Director the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains Program

Konrad Kording was appointed the Co-Director of the CIFAR Program in Learning in Machines & Brains. The program brings together international scientists to examine “how artificial neural networks could be inspired by the human brain, and developing the powerful technique of deep learning.”

Bioengineering
Computer and Information Science
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

News

How storytelling can motivate us to help others

The Data Will Save Us

Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

Chris Callison-Burch receives the Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising

Why the U.S. Government Should Regulate Cryptocurrency

New COVID-19 roadmap: Four takeaways

At the Duke Law Journal, Cary Coglianese offers a framework for determining when government should use artificial intelligence

Dolores Albarracín Elected Fellow of American Academy of Political and Social Science

The Black Lives Matter Movement, but not COVID-19, Encouraged Voters Toward Biden in the 2020 Election

Konrad Kording Appointed Co-Director the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains Program