Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), to be hosted jointly by the Artificial Intelligence Lab (headed by Prof. Boi Faltings) and the Data Science Lab (headed by Prof. Robert West).
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Arguing with Strangers on the Internet
How Convincing Others of Your Opinions Is Difficult, Even if They Already Like or Respect You
[This post describes research from two papers: Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial, published at The Web Conference 2021, and The Effect of Spokesperson Attribution on Public Health Message Sharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, published in PLOS ONE.]
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Student assistant position available at EPFL Data Science Lab
[Note: this position has been filled, and the call is closed]
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COVID-19 survey
A short, anonymous survey on how the spread of COVID-19 is affecting your life.
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A collection of notes about leadership
This week I visited Novartis’s Basel campus for a special event called “Future Leadership Dialogue” with CEO Vas Narasimhan and Adam Grant, American organizational psychologist, host of WorkLife podcast with TED and New York Times bestselling author. The goal was to ask ourselves what kind of leadership does the 21st...
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