News about Behaviour

Expecting to Lose Your Job Makes You Save More

When people think their risk of unemployment is high, they change their economic behavior: they save more and are more likely to enroll in unemployment insurance. But where do these expectations come from?

Det skrøbelige selv: Et fænomenologisk studie af det skizofrene spektrum

Ny bog af Josef Parnas, Maja Zandersen, Lennart Jansson, og Dan Zahavi Bogen leverer en systematisk beskrivelse af typiske symptomer, udtryk, oplevelsesmåder og eksistensformer ved det skizofrene spektrum. Bogen…

Are People Systematically Inactive Across Financial Decisions?

Henrik Yde Andersen, Camilla Skovbo Christensen, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen

Claus T. Kreiner invited to speak in the series of talks, “The World Tried to Explain"

The title of the talk is "The overlooked key to financial success? Patience"

Evidence of discrimination does not sway public support for policies addressing the problem

A new study from the University of Copenhagen challenges the effectiveness of information campaigns aimed at combatting discrimination.

Celebrating 2024 publications from the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (DNRF138)

2024 has been extremely rewarding. PRIVACY scholars undertake in-depth historical research. This research is tested in our cross-disciplinary research environment and at international conferences and workshops,…

Christina Gravert receives Carlsberg’s Semper Ardens Accelerate grant

for her research project “Behavioral foundations of Technology Adoption: Bridging the Energy-Efficiency gap (BeTA-BEE)”

Salvation vs. health: The eternal pursuit of the flawless life

Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun in a live interview at Copenhagen University Library Fiolstræde

Our attention is not failing us – it almost works too well

The mobile phone is often blamed for drowning us in information and stealing our attention. But it is rather our inner reward system that our phones and tech companies utilize, shows new research from the University of…

Impact of 700 years of Inuvialuit subsistence hunting on beluga whales

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Copenhagen and University of Toronto, analysed beluga whale bones retrieved from archaeological sites in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest…

People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory

The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of…

Climate crisis: New project explores how flexible our eating habits are

Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the departments of Anthropology and Sociology will study the eating habits of four generations and how they relate to environmental and climate issues.

Alessandro Moretti invited as guest on BBC podcast on ticket touting

CGC researcher Alessandro Moretti recently contributed to an episode of the BBC podcast, examining the illegal buying and reselling of tickets to e.g. concerts and sporting events for profit, known in the United Kingdom…

Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

New PRIVACY open access book

Hearing loss: New film shows ways to a good school and working life

A new film from the Good Social Spaces and Places research project shows that it is possible to overcome some of the social challenges that people with hearing loss face at school or at work.

Torben Heien Nielsen to TV2 News: Increase in retirement savings

Recent figures from pension funds show that retirement savings are increasing. Still, one pension fund claims that we are saving too little.

Sociological research plays key role in conflict management campaign

A new campaign aims to prevent conflicts between passengers, bus drivers and ticket inspectors in public transport. The campaign draws on the latest research - and with the researcher in a rare key role.

New PRIVACY book: Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea - Practices, Spaces and Communication in Maritime History is edited by PRIVACY Assistant Professor Natacha Klein Käfer and contains contributions by PRIVACY scholars.

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun in the podcast ‘Videnskab fra vilde hjerner’

Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun was recently a guest in the Danish podcast Videnskab fra vilde hjerner (Science from Wild Minds) hosted by Professor of astrophysics at University of Copenhagen, Anja C. Andersen.…

Denmark Disconnected? Presentation of preliminary survey results

On December 5th 2023, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Kristoffer Albris gave a presentation to the Policy Fellows on Digitalisation at the Crown Princess Mary Center at the Faculty of Social Science. At the presentation,…

Your phone gives your mind what it likes the most: endless possibilities for novelty

It is not vast amounts of online information that makes it difficult for you to stay focused. It is rather the easily accessible possibilities for novelty and action built into digital technology that your mind cannot…

Christina Gravert presented at the Science and Innovation Forum at FAO

The Science and Innovation forum in Rome will gather examples of science-based evidence of climate change adaptation and mitigation, technological advancements and innovative solutions suitable for agrifood system…

People learning economics are less likely to get into financial trouble

The financial crisis in 2008-10 showed that ill-informed financial decision-making among households have great consequences for the global financial markets.

Under Pressure? Performance Evaluation of Police Officers as an Incentive to Cheat

For decades, researchers have been investigating the relationship between incentives and effort. They found that while motivation is essential, strong incentives based on easy-to-measure goals can sometimes lead to…