ANNA RIEDL
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In a few words

Cognitive scientist with primary research interest in behavioural economics, especially focusing on individual and collective decision-making and information-processes.
I have a high need for cognition, fast adaptability, diverse foundations in theoretical understanding, and I love science and its idea. But in the end I care about ideas being applied in the real world, solving problems, and benefitting others. I often play the role of being an interface between the two worlds.
“If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.”  
​― John Rich

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Psychology, Heuristics and biases, individual decision-making
  • Collective: intelligence, rationality, and decision-making
  • Rationality: Computational, instrumental, epistemic, bounded (behavioural economics)
  • Complex and dynamical systems, computational social science, science of science
  • Effective altruism, applied ethics, and impact measurement

General (Theoretical) Interests

  • (Bayesian) Epistemology
  • History in general, history of ideas, technology and innovation 
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Public Health, Mental Health, Positive Psychology, Psychology of virtue
  • Interdisciplinary thinking and communication, science communication
  • Holistic and humanistic education
  • Network science
  • Behavioural and Neuroendocrinology
  • Information design, Science Illustrations, Visual Representation and Understanding

Talks I give

  • Impact Thinking (Effective Altruism): How can we think more clearly about and have more positive impact on the world? How can we overcome typical systematic errors in thinking and doing, when helping others?
  • Social Cognition: What typical mistakes do we make when we think about other humans? What does psychology tell us, how we can do it better?
  • Quantified Self: What gets measured gets managed: How can we use (self-)measurement to reach (our) goals? What tools are out there? A critical and practical introduction and overview
  • Academic talks: everything mentioned in "research -" and "general interests"
  • I am open to expand the portfolio upon request for topics in my domain of competence

Projects, POSITIONS, ACTIVITIES

  • Rationality Vienna Meetup Co-Organizer of the monthly meetup (discussing heuristics/biases, science and more)
  • Global Shapers Vienna Hub (World Economic Forum)  Curatorship 2017/2018, Impact Officer 2020/2021, Member
  • Effective Altruism Austria  Founder/Public Speaking​​​/Elected Presidency 2019/2020
  • International Society for Scientometrics and Informetics  Member
  • Society for Judgement and Decision Making  Member
  • Cognitive Science Society  Member
  • GivingWhatWeCan / TheLifeYouCanSave  Member
  • CV available upon request.​

Disclaimer

Regularly I perceive how people have naive impressions of my beliefs. Most of my interests do not represent positions and opinions I identify with, but phenomena I am interested in thinking about. I am agnostic and flexible regarding my stands on them and my opinion is like a flag in the wind of good arguments and evidence.
Also many of my blog posts do not reflect my standards of quality. I try to produce minimal viable products that are readable and at least approximate my knowledge and opinion, to get ideas and input "out there".
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