We study how people make wise decisions: in everyday life, across cultures, and over time. Our work sits at the intersection of Social & Cultural Psychology and Judgment & Decision Making, with computational methods and projects on human-AI interactions and AI value alignment.
We combine survey, behavioral, and computational approaches (modeling, NLP, and large-scale analyses), and we preregister studies, share analysis code, and document everything so others can replicate and extend our work.
Wise Judgment Consortium is a global, preregistered collaboration led by our lab to map the building blocks of wise judgment across cultures.
- 15 labs · 5 continents · ~3,500+ participants so far.
- Latest update: Preregistration and Study 1 data collection (“Life’s most difficult decisions”) complete; analyses and design of data collection underway.
- Next: data lock 2025-Q4, then analysis and write-up.
News
New BBC Article out now!
Dr. Grossmann and other lab members are now featured in the BBC article: "Dear AI: This is what happens when you ask an algorithm for relationship advice". Click here to read the full article!
New paper accepted in Nature Communications!
The piece Social Perception of Wisdom Across Cultures from the Geography of Philosophy project has recently been accepted in Nature Communications. Check out the pre-print here.
Lab works cited in The Economist!
Check out this article "How Scientists are Using Artificial Intelligence" which refers to our lab's work on the use of LLMs in research.