Centre for Decision Research (CDR)

1/ Since 2021, we’ve used this account to share updates, highlight research stories and connect with the decision-research community. However, in recent years - like many others - we’ve experienced a huge drop in engagement due to developments on the platform.

2/ The nature of the channel has also changed over the years and no longer aligns with our University values of collaboration, compassion, inclusivity and integrity. While this remains the case, we will no longer be posting on this account.

1/ Since 2021, we’ve used this account to share updates, highlight research stories and connect with the decision-research community. However, in recent years - like many others - we’ve experienced a huge drop in engagement due to developments on the platform.

🌪️ 2-Year Postdoc Position @LeedsUniBSchool Join us & collaborate with @metoffice on atmospheric hazards communication research! 🎯 Focus: Decision-making & probability communication 💼 Full-time, 2 years Apply by Jan 20, 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… #postdoc #phdjob #cdrleeds

🎓 PhD Scholarships @LeedsUniBSchool! Multiple funded opportunities for UK & International students for Decision Research, Behavioural Science & more. Deadlines: Jan to Apr 2025 cdr.leeds.ac.uk/study/ #PhDscholarship #LUBS #CDRLeeds

Risk communication is key to climate action. #CDRLeeds hosted a hybrid workshop on developing severe weather messaging for disaster risk reduction, with more than 30 representatives from meteorological services, policy, NGOs, academia and consultancy. shorturl.at/uaOe2

Cognitive reflection is the tendency to override a gut feeling with a more accurate reflection. While it can lead to better decision-making, it can also lead to pessimism and dissatisfaction, as @behavioraldave will discuss in our next #CDRLeeds seminar, on 4 Dec (link in image)

While covid-19 lockdowns curbed contagion rates, they also triggered public anxiety and skepticisms. #CDRLeeds Panagiotis Stamolampros and Xinhe Kang explore these feelings through social media records of the period. link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Does Lucifer 👿 or Phaeton 🔥sound more threatening to you? #CDRLeeds 's @Andrea_L_Taylor, Barbara Summers and colleagues studied if naming heat waves increases the perceived risk by the population. Brits and Italians behave differently. See the paper: doi.org/10.1002/met.70…

S&P-500 conservative CEOs favoured shareholders return over protecting workforce employment during the pandemic, while non-conservatives did the opposite. Surprised? 🤔 Check the evidence in #CDRLeeds @XingjieWei and colleagues’ new paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcor…

Three member of #CDRLeeds presented at #EMS24, the European Meteorological Society's annual meting, in Barcelona. Congrats to @s__jenkins, @Andrea_L_Taylor and Jack Thompson for presenting on weather risk perception and response. Visit shorturl.at/HsFzj for details.

Have you ever got a phone call trying to scam you? Prof. Yaniv Hanoch from @unisouthampton will discuss susceptibility and prevention of scams from a behavioural science perspective in his #CDRLeeds seminar. Wed. 13 Nov. 2pm UK. Register at shorturl.at/Fpczx

Are you sure about that? 🤷 Join us online in the fourth Autumn CDR Seminar, where Prof. Eric Stone will discuss the behavioural effects of confidence. Next Wednesday 6 Nov at 2 pm (UK time). Register at shorturl.at/trBCU #CDRLeeds @LeedsUniBSchool

Climate change or crisis? #CDRLeeds member Wändi Bruine de Bruine and Gale Sinatra discussed how using the right wording can increase the sense of relevance and urgency that people in the US feel about climate change. shorturl.at/biyPL

Making decisions is hard, finding the best location for a green energy project can be daunting. In our next CDR seminar, Duan Ferreira will present a new decision support system mixing MCDA & GIS to help make these decisions. 9 Oct, 2pm UK shorturl.at/i6YtX @LeedsUniBSchool

Tax avoidance: ethical dilemma or professional duty? Explore the complex world of tax practitioners and their role in corporate tax strategies. Join #CDRLeeds seminar on the ethical reasoning behind tax advice and its global impact by Prof Barbara Summers: cdr.leeds.ac.uk/events/ethical…

In CDR we are very pleased to have hosted the 8th workshop on non-market valuation (WONV), where 40 delegates shared their innovative work on the area, and listened to two keynotes. We will see each other again in the 9th WONV in Nancy, France! @LeedsUniBSchool @beta_economics

Do data analytics add value to companies? Our own Panagiotis Stamolampros will explore this question in his new BA @LeverhulmeTrust Small Research Grant. The project investigates if allocating resources to analytics increase stock value or reduces risk. @LeedsUniBSchool

Smart Decisions: A structured approach to decision analysis using MCDA, a new book by our own Richard Hodgett, Sajid Siraj and Louise Hogg, is now out! A gentle and applied introduction to #MCDA and other #DecisionMaking techniques. Get it here: shorturl.at/anvNR

Are people worried about #climate risks? How do we measure it? Instead of estimating a monetary value for risk reductions, @irenemussio proposes using trade-offs between familiar risks and climate-related ones. Read about it in shorturl.at/bE267 #climaterisk #riskperception

@XingjieWei, along with @LeedsUniBSchool coauthors V. Giannetti and J. Chen show how actors’ facial similarity (as measured using machine learning) decreases movies' performance in East and South-East Asia, due to the audiences difficulty to identify them. doi.org/10.1108/IMR-06…