
117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting
Kai Ruggeri is professor for health policy and management at Columbia University. We talk about his global collaborations, in which they studied various important decision-making aspects, including Prospect Theory and temporal discounting.
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Timestamps
0:00:00: Why Kai studied stats anxiety in his PhD, and then moved to broader policy questions
0:09:15: Replicating the original Prospect Theory paper across the world
0:30:01: Adversarial collaborations and choosing which findings are worth being replicated
0:38:31: How to run global collaborations
0:56:25: Overlooked aspects of these global collaborations
1:03:59: Should we collect data from non-Western countries without local collaborators?
1:10:24: A book or paper more people should read
1:16:38: Something Kai wishes he'd learnt sooner
1:27:50: Advice for postdocs
Podcast links
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Kai's links
- Website: https://geni.us/ruggeri-web
- Google Scholar: https://geni.us/ruggeri-scholar
- BlueSky: https://geni.us/ruggeri-bsky
Ben's links
- Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
- Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
- BlueSky: https://geni.us/bjks-bsky
References, links & notes
Junior Researcher Programme: https://jrp.pscholars.org/
Today, Israel uses the Shekel, but when Kahneman & Tversky did research there, they used the Israeli pound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_pound
Prolific: https://www.prolific.com/
Besample: https://besample.app/
Kahneman's final decision: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124
Gal & Rucker (2018). The loss of loss aversion: Will it loom larger than its gain?. J Cons Psych.
Kahneman & Tversky (1979). Prospect theory: an analysis of decisions under risk. Econometrica.
Lewis (2016). The undoing project: A friendship that changed the world.
Macher, ... & Ruggeri (2012). Statistics anxiety, trait anxiety, learning behavior, and academic performance. Europ J psych edu.
Macher, ... Ruggeri, ... (2013). Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement. British J Edu Psych.
Mellers, Hertwig & Kahneman (2001). Do frequency representations eliminate conjunction effects? An exercise in adversarial collaboration. Psych Sci.
Ruggeri, ... & Folke (2020). Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri, ... & Folke (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri, ... & Toscano (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri (Ed.). (2018). Behavioral insights for public policy: concepts and cases.
Thaler (2015). Misbehaving: The making of behavioral economics.
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