Too impatient to get vaccinated?

Researchers from Konstanz and Switzerland examine willingness of Swiss hospital staff to get a COVID-19 vaccination – potential links to various behavioural factors and perceptions of social norms

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Stress among wild life

How stress is transmitted from one animal to another is the study topic of behavioural ecologist and collective behaviour researcher Dr Hanja Brandl of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

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Everything fluctuates

It has been an exciting first year since the Collaborative Research Centre "Fluctuations and Nonlinearities in Classical and Quantum Matter beyond Equilibrium" has been launched to explore one of the fundamental characteristics of the world around us – noise.

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Copying others to dare

Learning from others can mitigate risk aversion, even if the others we learn from tend to avoid risky, but profitable decisions themselves. This is shown in mathematical modelling and large-scale online experiments by the social psychologists Dr Wataru Toyokawa and Professor Wolfgang Gaissmaier from the University of Konstanz.

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Public lecture postponed

The public lecture by former Federal President Joachim Gauck has been postponed due to illness. We will inform you about the new date in due course.

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