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.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why Kai studied stats anxiety in his PhD, and then moved to broader policy questions0:09:15: Replicating the original Prospect Theory paper across the world0:30:01: Adversarial collaborations and choosing which findings are worth being replicated0:38:31: How to run global collaborations0:56:25: Overlooked aspects of these global collaborations1:03:59: Should we collect data from non-Western countries without local collaborators?1:10:24: A book or paper more people should read1:16:38: Something Kai wishes he'd learnt sooner1:27:50: Advice for postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podBlueSky: https://geni.us/pod-bskyKai's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/ruggeri-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/ruggeri-scholarBlueSky: https://geni.us/ruggeri-bskyBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarBlueSky: https://geni.us/bjks-bskyReferences, links & notesJunior 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_poundProlific: https://www.prolific.com/Besample: https://besample.app/Kahneman's final decision: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124Gal & 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.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.Parks, Joireman & Van Lange (2013). Cooperation, trust, and antagonism: How public goods are promoted. Psych sci in the public interest.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.