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Today at the LABEL ECON 693 Seminar 🎓 Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota): Nature, Nurture and Markets Daniel Benjamin (UCLA) : Adjusting for Heterogeneity in the Use of Subjective Scales Thank you to our speakers and to everyone who joined us! #genetics #Economía #USC

Final session completed! 📊 We wrapped up the Contagion Network Experiment at the Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA) 🎓 Thanks to the students, faculty, and staff for their enthusiasm and collaboration throughout the project! ✨ #Networks #LABEL #USC

🎓 LABEL ECON 693 Last week, we welcomed Jason Somerville (UC Santa Barbara) presenting “Understanding Performance Declines.” A fascinating discussion on cognitive effort and optimization failures. #usc #DecisionMaking #Economics #SantaBarbara

🔬 Contagion Experiment at the Lycée International de Los Angeles (LILA) Dynamic networks. Strategic decisions. Real-time social exposure. Grateful for the engagement and collaboration throughout the sessions. #ExperimentalEconomics #BehavioralScience #LABEL

🔬 Pilot complete! We successfully ran the pilot of our Contagion Network Experiment, studying decision-making under social exposure and dynamic risk. Full data collection coming soon 🚀 #BehavioralEconomics #ExperimentalEconomics

🎓 LABEL ECON 693 Seminar! We were delighted to welcome𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 (𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆) for a talk on: Title: “𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥? 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

🎓 We kicked off the LABEL Seminar Series with two outstanding talks! Ignacio Esponda (UC Santa Barbara): Forecast Errors and Forecast Sufficiency Under Ambiguity Alejandro Martínez Marquina (USC Marshall): Space Exploration 🌟Thank you to our speakers and everyone who joined us

🚀 Spring semester has begun! Classes are back, projects are launching, our Seminar starts on Thu Jan 22 with Esponda (UCSB) & Martinez Marquina (USC) join us in person or online at 2pm and 3:15pm. 📍 Kaprielian Hall 319 | Zoom: usc.zoom.us/j/3923012329 ✨ Happy New Year !

Wonderful visit at the LABEL Lab today! 🎓🔬 Great having students from the Lycée International de Los Angeles join us for a hands-on experiment and a look into our research projects. Loved their curiosity and questions! ✨

Our November 2025 Newsletter is out!!! Take a look at what we’ve been working on these past few months: new team members, future summer school and upcoming projects at LABEL... Read the full update here: label-laboratory.org/newsletters/ #BehavioralEconomics #ExperimentalEconomics

🎓 Final LABEL ECON 693 Seminar of the semester! Kathleen Ngangoue (UCLA) on AI and access to expert advice, and Alex Imas (UChicago) on attention, memory & model misspecification. 🌟 Thanks to all speakers and attendees for an amazing semester! #BehavioralEcon #AIEconomics

Welcome, Audrey Bousselin! ✨ We’re delighted to have her join us as a Research Associate. Audrey’s work focuses on family economics, education, and child well-being with deep expertise in early childhood and large-scale child surveys. Happy to have her on board!

🎓 LABEL Seminar Series We hosted Xin Jiang (USC) for her seminar “Pinocchio’s Clock.” She shows that longer response times signal higher chances of deception, yet receivers often overtrust slow messages. 👉 More events: lnkd.in/ggn7TMtr

Last week at USC 🎓 • Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University): The Evolution of Preferences through the University Years, Altruism and Risk Preferences. • Erik Kimbrough (Chapman University): Focal Norms. Part of our LABEL Seminar Series. #BehavioralScience #ExperimentalEcon

🌟 Alumni Spotlight: Sacha Bazzal From LABEL to London! She holds an MSc in Social Cognition from UCL, where she studied how rewards shape behavior and decision-making. We were happy to have her visit LABEL for lunch last week! #BehavioralScience #LABELalumni

USC-LABEL presented at the 2025 LAX Conference at UCLA Anderson 🎓 Monica Vasco: How Adolescents Coordinate Dynamically in Network Games Malala Rajaona: Not Being Involved: Re-examining the Trolley Dilemma Across the World Thanks to the organizers for an inspiring event!

LABEL hosted two seminars by leading scholars: 🎓 Yan Chen (U. Michigan) – Group Identity & Belief Formation: people pay to avoid outgroup info; unlabeling halves this bias. 🎓 Uri Gneezy (UCSD) – Why Don’t People Lie More? Truth feels more persuasive than lies. #BehavioralEcon

A new paper by Nils Köbis et al. shows that delegating tasks to AI can erode human honesty. Across 13 experiments, people cheated more when using AI and the machines often complied. Honesty fell from 95% to 15%. Delegating doesn’t erase moral cost, it hides it. #experiments #USC

“If I go to a hotel and there’s one tree, I will sometimes move my bed around so I can just be there and see the tree. A little bird comes on the palm tree outside the window. I like it.” Jane Goodall She showed us that science rooted in empathy can reshape how we see the planet

🎉 The LABEL Training Program 2025 Welcoming of 16 visiting students from high school and undergrad!! 👉 More: lnkd.in/g-kACakx #BehavioralScience #Econ #Psychology #CognitiveScience #Anthropology #ResearchTraining #DecisionMaking #Academia #USC