Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences

Do we vote with our head or with our heart?

This week, Jane Gingrich from the Department of Social policy and Intervention will argue that ‘third time’s a charm’ when she presents the third of her experimental designs aimed at investigating the growing backlash against higher education amongst some voters.

Join us in-person or online on Wed from 14:00-15:00 to learn more about her proposed design!

For more information, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/jane-gingrich-department-of-social-policy-and-intervention-university-of-oxford/

Who tweeted that?!

From Shakespeare to Sophocles, the adage of ‘don’t shoot the messenger’ sustains. But, does a message depend on its messenger?

This week Emma shares her design seeking to disentangle the role of the messenger in how a message is received in the context of sentiment towards refugees in Turkey.

Join us in-person or online on Wednesday, 1st of May, from 14:00-15:00 when Emma will present her experimental design.

To learn more, please visit:
https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/emma-walker-silverman-university-of-oxford/

Should Athletes be paid more than doctors? Lawyers more than school teachers?

César proposes to sift amongst the lacking excuses and cracking arguments supporting labour market inequity using his newest conjoint design.

Join us on in-person or online tomorrow from 14:00-15:00 when César will share his newest experimental design in the first colloquia of Trinity 2024!

To learn more, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/cesar-fuster-llamazares/

In the immortal words of Lesley Gore: “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.”

Although we think Lesley may have had a different meaning in mind, this week Joshua Berry will share his experimental design that tests how elite in-group partisan cues impact cries for content moderation.

Join us on Wed from 14:00-15:00 for the final colloquia this term. You won’t want to miss this timely design!

For more information, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/joshua-berry-university-of-oxford/

Does a bad apple really spoil the bunch? Do people associate a whole group with the views of its most extreme members?

Join us on Wed from 14:00-15:00 when Andrej Cvetic visits from Trinity College Dublin to present a design, which seeks to answer this important question!

To learn more, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/andrej-cvetic-trinity-college-dublin/

As part of CESS’s continued commitment to the training and mentorship of junior experimentalists, we are excited to announce our next introductory course on oTree (course webpage: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/online-otree-course-for-beginners-spring-2024). This course aims to introduce students and researchers in the social sciences to oTree, a leading framework based on Python to develop and administer experiments in the social sciences. The course is best suited for absolute or semi-beginners, as it does not assume any prior knowledge of programming either in Python or in any front-end language such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS. The course does assume a basic understanding of experimental methodology in the social sciences.

Is Making up Hard To Do?

Although Neil Sedaka taught us that ‘breaking up is hard to do,’ can the same be said of making up?

Join us this week on Wed from 14:00-15:00 when Gabriel Fung proposes a design which seeks to understand what influences a country's' willingness to apologize for past behaviour.

To learn more, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/gabriel-fung-university-of-oxford/

Local Zero or Outsider Hero?

Join us online or in-person on Wednesday from 14:00-15:00 when Albert Ward presents his experimental design aiming to causally test the role of geographic homophily in the formation of voting preferences.

With election season gearing up, you won’t want to skip this week!

To learn more about Albert’s talk, please visit: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/albert-ward-university-of-oxford/

Do We Prefer Co-Partisans or Co-Pilots?

Join us tomorrow when Luis Cornago Bonal presents his design with Francesco Raffaelli which seeks to investigate how we trade-off competence for comparability when selecting co-workers and friends.

Join us in-person (at CESS) or online on Wed from 14:00-15:00 for the first Colloquia of 2024 to learn more about their proposed design!

Request the link here: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/luis-cornago-bonal-francesco-raffaelli-university-of-oxford/

Join us in a colloquium by Denise Laroze (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) at 2pm tomorrow, at Nuffield College, Clay Room. For those who want to join us online, request the link here: https://bit.ly/3SaijRf

Join us in a colloquium by Gauri Chandra (University of Oxford) at Nuffield College on Wednesday, 12th October at 2pm. For those who want to join us online, request the link here: https://bit.ly/3en5F3y.

As part of CESS’s continued commitment to the training and mentorship of junior experimentalists, we are excited to announce our next introductory course on oTree. More info at https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/online-otree-course-for-beginners-summer-2022/