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“Princeton University has a longstanding commitment to service, reflected in Princeton’s informal motto — Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of humanity — and exemplified by the extraordinary contributions that Princetonians make to society.”

Christopher L. Eisgruber
President of Princeton University, Class of 1983

Michael Skinnider
Assistant professor
Princeton University
Tom Griffiths
Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture
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Janet Currie
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
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October 8, 2024
Tom Griffiths named director of new interdisciplinary Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence
NOMIS researcher Tom Griffiths will spearhead Princeton University’s groundbreaking new AI Lab, uniting diverse disciplines to shape the future of artificial-intelligence research. By Yvonne Liu, Office of the Dean of […]
September 23, 2024
Janet Currie recognized as 2024 Clarivate Citation Laureate
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the codirector of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the Princeton School of Public and […]
June 1, 2023
Stress, intertemporal choice and mitigation behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
NOMIS researcher Tom Griffiths and colleagues have pinpointed a link between the psychological concept of delayed gratification with the choice to socially distance during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that stress […]
January 11, 2023
Janet Currie elected president of American Economic Association
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, has recently been elected president of the […]
January 24, 2022
Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?
The insights of NOMIS researcher Tom Griffiths and colleagues have been featured in an article in The Guardian that explores the changing approach to knowledge acquisition. Griffiths is leading The […]
December 22, 2021
Antidepressant treatment for postpartum depression may be overprescribed
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie and postdoctoral research associate Esmée Zwiers have published a study in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) suggesting that antidepressants may be overprescribed for treating […]
August 30, 2021
Janet Currie testifies before Congress: Economic disparities drive long-lasting challenges for American children
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth on July 29, arguing that, because economic disparities affect the health, wellness […]
June 13, 2021
Machine-generated theories of human decision-making
NOMIS researcher Tom Griffiths and colleagues have shown how they can leverage machine learning to evaluate classical decision theories, increase their predictive power, and generate new theories of decision-making. Their […]
October 5, 2020
Janet Currie to participate in public panel discussion: "Inequality - facts and consequences"
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie and economists David Dorn and Branko Milanovic will participate in a public online panel discussion, “Inequality – facts and consequences,” hosted by the University of Zurich […]
September 22, 2020
Janet Currie: Mental illness treatment varies widely among American adolescents within and across zip codes
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie and Princeton University PhD candidate Emily Cuddy have published a study highlighting the discrepancy in mental health treatment among children. PRINCETON, N.J.–Children are struggling with mental […]
August 5, 2020
Enabling decision-making through data
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie will share her insights on how decision makers can best evaluate and understand COVID-19 data at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine webinar on […]
April 27, 2020
Family Health During a Global Pandemic
In a Princeton University news-focused series featuring faculty who present their views on current events, NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie shared her insights into how the global pandemic has impacted mothers […]
April 30, 2019
NOMIS Awardee Janet Currie elected to National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and Foreign Associates; Historic Number of Women Elected to Its Membership The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 100 new members […]
February 8, 2019
NOMIS Foundation announces recipients of 2019 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award
We are delighted to announce the three new recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award — congratulations to Adriano Aguzzi, Janet Currie and Antonio Rangel. Recognizing their outstanding […]
April 17, 2025
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change
Abstract: For much of the global population, climate change appears as a slow, gradual shift in daily weather. This leads many to perceive its impacts as minor and results in apathy […]
November 8, 2024
Learning human-like representations to enable learning human values
Abstract: How can we build AI systems that can learn any set of individual human values both quickly and safely, avoiding causing harm or violating societal standards for acceptable behavior during […]
September 21, 2024
Bayes in the age of intelligent machines
Abstract: The success of methods based on artificial neural networks in creating intelligent machines seems like it might pose a challenge to explanations of human cognition in terms of Bayesian inference. […]
July 24, 2024
Learning from aggregated opinion
Abstract: The capacity to leverage information from others’ opinions is a hallmark of human cognition. Consequently, past research has investigated how we learn from others’ testimony. Yet a distinct form of […]
April 1, 2024
The Economics of Child Mental Health: Introducing the Causes and Consequences of Child Mental Health Special Issue
Abstract: This special issue of the Journal of Human Resources showcases an emerging literature on the economics of child mental health. Until recently, the severe stigma associated with mental health issues meant that […]
February 26, 2024
Publish or perish: Simulating the impact of publication policies on science
Abstract: Science can be viewed as a collective, epistemic endeavor. However, a variety of factors- such as the publish-or-perish culture, institutional incentives, and publishers who favor novel and positive findings- may […]
February 26, 2024
Program-Based Strategy Induction for Reinforcement Learning
Abstract: Typical models of learning assume incremental estimation of continuously-varying decision variables like expected rewards. However, this class of models fails to capture more idiosyncratic, discrete heuristics and strategies that people […]
January 30, 2024
Incoherent probability judgments in large language models
Abstract: Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) trained for next-word prediction have demonstrated remarkable proficiency at producing coherent text. But are they equally adept at forming coherent probability judgments? We use probabilistic […]
January 1, 2024
Machine learning for modeling human decisions
Abstract: The rapid development of machine learning has led to new opportunities for applying these methods to the study of human decision making. We highlight some of these opportunities and discuss […]
August 1, 2023
Computation-Limited Bayesian Updating
Abstract: Effectively updating one’s beliefs requires sufficient empirical evidence (i.e., data) and the computational capacity to process it. Yet both data and computational resources are limited for human minds. Here, we […]
August 1, 2023
Comparing Human Predictions from Expert Advice to On-line Optimization Algorithms
Abstract: On-line decision problems – in which a decision is made based on a sequence of past events without knowledge of the future – have been extensively studied in theoretical computer […]
August 1, 2023
To each their own theory: Exploring the limits of individual differences in decisions under risk
Abstract: Theories in cognitive science are primarily aimed at explaining human behavior in general, appealing to universal constructs such as perception or attention. When it is considered, modeling of individual differences […]
May 29, 2023
New Caregiver Diagnoses of Severe Depression and Child Asthma Controller Medication Adherence
Abstract: Background and Objectives: Children with asthma who have depressed caregivers are known to be less adherent to medication regimes. However, it is less clear how adherence responds to a caregiver’s […]
December 21, 2022
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences
Abstract: The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment’s […]
January 1, 2022
“Tackling the Substance Use Disorder Crisis: The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities”
Abstract: The continuing drug overdose crisis in the U.S. has highlighted the urgent need for greater access to treatment. This paper examines the impact of openings and closings of substance use […]
April 1, 2020
Child health as human capital
Abstract: Child health is increasingly understood to be a critical form of human capital, but only recently have we begun to understand how valuable it is and how its development could […]
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