Recent highlights
TEDxKlagenfurt: How the day of the week affects your decisions
Does the day of the week affect your daily decisions? Jet Sanders’s research says it does. In this talk, she shares how decision-making fluctuates within the working week -- and how that affects, voting, health and other types of decisions people make…
The Human and The Machine Podcast: Summer Special - Zoom Boom
Join guest presenter Wendell Steavenson unpick the upsurge in Zoom use with guests including Rimma Perelmuter of Datum Future, Jet G. Sanders of the London School of Economics, Liz Moseley of Tortoise Media…
Science Focus: One-fifth of people fooled by hyper-realistic masks, study finds
Synthetic masks can fool viewers frequently and could be exploited by criminals as a means of disguise, the researchers say. Some masks are so realistic that people frequently cannot tell them apart from human faces, a study has found. Participants were fooled by the masks in a fifth of cases, researchers from the Universities of York and Kyoto…
The Cognitive Bias Podcast: The power of the weekly cycle
The day of the week might influence the decisions you make in everything from whether or not to miss a doctor's appointment to, yes, how you vote. We talk with Jet G. Sanders, Ph.D., assistant professor at the London School of Economics, about her research into how the day of the week impacts our tolerance for risk…
De Standaard: Super-echte maskers foppen bijna iedereen.
Maskers zijn tegenwoordig zo levensecht dat bijna niemand het verschil ziet met echte gezichten. Dat ontdekten wetenschappers, die waarschuwen voor misbruik door criminelen….
Falling Walls Lab: Breaking the Wall of Risky Decisions
The Falling Walls Lab is an international forum for emerging talents and innovative thinkers. All participants get the opportunity to present their research work, business model or initiative in front of peers and a distinguished jury made up of experts from academia and industry - in 3 minutes each…
Psychology Today: Individual differences are the solution to discovery of realistic masks
This year the Psychonomic Society 2018 Best Article Award was offered to Dr. Jet Sanders at the London School of Economics and…
Economic Observatory: Risk in the time of Covid-19 - what do we know and not know?
Coronavirus has exposed the world’s population to an extreme degree of uncertainty in all dimensions of life. How does this unprecedented global event influence our risk-taking – and how can we measure it reliably? he novel conditions under which people are…
LSE Blogs: PB100 live from your living room
Prior to COVID-19, students had spent an entire academic year preparing a 3-minute pitch on a topic from PB100 Foundations of Behavioural Science…
Science Slam Berlin: 'From Burst Balloons to Biased Elections’
What do elections, burst balloons and weekdays have in common? In her research Jet Sanders from the University of York is looking at the probability of people taking a risk on different days of the week. Basically outcomes of decisions seem to differ on different weekdays. So can you change the outcome of an election by choosing…
NRC handelsblad: Op donderdag kun je beter geen opslag vragen
Japke-d. denkt mee: Wist je dat je op vrijdag en maandag vaak meer risico neemt dan op donderdag? Dat kan grote gevolgen hebben zegt ...
The Conversation: Hyper-realistic masks are extremely hard to spot - as our new research shows
It’s easy to spot someone wearing a mask, right? Well, new research suggests that it can be much harder than you think. Masks are a great way to help actors get into…
WIRED Magazine: Gaze into these hyperrealistic masks and see a troubling future
Deepfakes may seem like an internet scourge, but so-called "hyperreal" masks have fooled people in real-life and have even been used in crimes. To learn more about these masks and our ability to spot them, WIRED's Matt Simon talked with researcher…
Algemeen Dagblad: Waarom je vandaag beter niet om meer loon vraagt.
Wij mensen zijn de baas over onze eigen beslissingen. Toch? Niet helemaal, zegt gedragspsycholoog Jet Sanders. Voor de London School of Economics bestudeert zij het verband tussen tijd en ons gedrag…
Visual Science and Arts Conference: Hyper-realistic masks, a new method for embodied cognition.
The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) was established in 2012 by Professor Baingio Pinna in Alghero/Italy. Its main focus is to better connect the communities of visual scientists and artists in order to deepen our understanding of aesthetic phenomena. The VSAC is an ideal venue to debate and collaborate on all topics associated with the perception and evaluation of artworks.
LSE Shape the World Festival: Can Behavioural Insights Shape Policy-making All Over the World?
Insights from psychology and behavioural economics are shaping policy-making all over the world, and the LSE is helping to make this happening. In the last decade methods and insights from behavioural science have been increasingly…
SHKALA: Applying Behavioural Science for social change.
Held on the weekend of 30-31 May in Kyiv, it brought together leading international and Ukrainian experts on social marketing and behavioural science, and representatives of national and local civil society organizations, local authorities, state communications experts…
University of York: Human face or hyper-realistic mask? Can you tell the difference?
Some silicone masks are now so realistic they can easily be mistaken for real faces, research from our Department of Psychology suggests…
Global News Podcast: Hyper-realistic face masks are more human than human
The day's top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily...
Psychonomic Society: Face of mask? A Turing test for hyperrealistic masks
Will computers ever think like us? And if they do, how would we know? In 1950, Alan Turing proposed that computers could be considered intelligent if an observer can no longer distinguish which of two partners in a conversation is a “real” human and which is a computer. To date, no computer has passed this famous…
LSE news: Some hyper-realistic face masks more believable than human faces
Some sillicone masks are now so realistic that they can easily be mistaken for real faces, research suggests. In this study, led by Jet G. Sanders while at University of York (now Assistant Professor at LSE) and published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications…
NRC-Handelsblad: Super-echte maskers foppen bijna iedereen.
Maskers zijn tegenwoordig zo levensecht, dat bijna niemand het verschil ziet met echte gezichten. Dat ontdekten wetenschappers, die...