Hans Ijzerman and team at Annecy Behavioral Science Lab aim to create the first Global Index of Social Connection, with a focus on including the Global South. The Index will provide a universal method for understanding social needs fulfillment and serve as a tool to facilitate global comparisons.
Examining joy as an aspect of intelligence in non-human animals: chimpanzees, bonobos, the New Zealand-native kea parrot, and bottlenose dolphins.
A groundbreaking intervention designed to promote interpersonal forgiveness will be adapted for Egypt, Tunisia, and Iraq. It will be tested with teachers and social workers in Arabic-speaking secular and religious schools.
A scientific roadmap to help forecast and guide human-algorithm behavior toward the common good will be developed.