Newsletter 2025
- Radboud Center for Decision Science
- 8 jan
- 2 minuten om te lezen
As 2025 wraps up and we get ready for the New Year, we invite you to reflect with us on what has been a year centered around connection. Having established a solid foundation over the past years, we have now been able to focus more on bringing people together: through our new Multidisciplinary Decision-Making lunches, through highlighting the achievements of our Investigators, and through ongoing research collaborations. The Center is starting to feel less like an abstract network and more like an active community, which is exactly what we'd hoped for!
Among our highlights for 2025 are the Multidisciplinary Decision-Making lunches, with 35-45 people showing up each time. The meetings bring together researchers at every career stage, from trainees presenting early work to established professors reflecting on decades of research, and from nearly every corner of the campus. We have also been fortunate to welcome visiting scholars: Mirre Stallen from Leiden University joined us in November, and Despoina Alempaki traveled from the University of Warwick in October.
On the research side, we are excited to tell you about our citizen science work on fairness norms, which has now been successfully published in Communications Psychology (Vahed & Sanfey, 2025). Using data collected over 13 months from more than 10,000 volunteer members of the public, this study examines how individuals respond to social norms, specifically unfairness, employing a citizen science, lab-in-the-field approach. Building on a 2024 publication in PLOS ONE, our social media content moderation team published a second article, now out in European Law Open, presenting empirical evidence that challenges key behavioural assumptions underlying the EU's Digital Services Act.
Furthermore, our DecisionWise app continues to develop, now with a new focus on youth mental health. Following the ELSA Living Lab award last year, Sarah and Alan have been working with a team of Radboud scientists and students on new features.
It's been a good year for building bridges: between disciplines, between researchers, and between academia and society. We look forward to continuing momentum together in 2026!
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