Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change

Igor Grossmann; Amanda Rotella; Cendri A. Hutcherson; Konstantyn Sharpinskyi; Michael E.W. Varnum; Sebastian Achter; Mandeep K. Dhami; Xinqi Evie Guo; Mane Kara-Yakoubian; David R. Mandel; Louis Raes; Louis Tay; Aymeric Vie; Lisa Wagner; Matus Adamkovic; Arash Arami; Patrícia Arriaga; Kasun Bandara; Gabriel Baník; František Bartoš; Ernest Baskin; Christoph Bergmeir; Michał Białek; Caroline K. Børsting; Dillon T. Browne; Eugene M. Caruso; Rong Chen; Bin Tzong Chie; William J. Chopik; Robert N. Collins; Chin Wen Cong; Lucian G. Conway; Matthew Davis; Martin V. Day; Nathan A. Dhaliwal; Justin D. Durham; Martyna Dziekan; Christian T. Elbaek; Eric Shuman; Marharyta Fabrykant; Mustafa Firat; Geoffrey T. Fong; Jeremy A. Frimer; Jonathan M. Gallegos; Simon B. Goldberg; Anton Gollwitzer; Julia Goyal; Lorenz Graf-Vlachy; Ruslan Krenzler; Timur Sevincer

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Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change

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in: Nature Human Behaviour, Jahrgang 7, Nr. 4, 04.2023, S. 484-501.

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Grossmann, I, Rotella, A, Hutcherson, CA, Sharpinskyi, K, Varnum, MEW, Achter, S, Dhami, MK, Guo, XE, Kara-Yakoubian, M, Mandel, DR, Raes, L, Tay, L, Vie, A, Wagner, L, Adamkovic, M, Arami, A, Arriaga, P, Bandara, K, Baník, G, Bartoš, F, Baskin, E, Bergmeir, C, Białek, M, Børsting, CK, Browne, DT, Caruso, EM, Chen, R, Chie, BT, Chopik, WJ, Collins, RN, Cong, CW, Conway, LG, Davis, M, Day, MV, Dhaliwal, NA, Durham, JD, Dziekan, M, Elbaek, CT, Shuman, E, Fabrykant, M, Firat, M, Fong, GT, Frimer, JA, Gallegos, JM, Goldberg, SB, Gollwitzer, A, Goyal, J, Graf-Vlachy, L, Krenzler, R & Sevincer, T 2023, 'Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change', Nature Human Behaviour, Jg. 7, Nr. 4, S. 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

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Grossmann, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., Dhami, M. K., Guo, X. E., Kara-Yakoubian, M., Mandel, D. R., Raes, L., Tay, L., Vie, A., Wagner, L., Adamkovic, M., Arami, A., Arriaga, P., Bandara, K., Baník, G., ... Sevincer, T. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4), 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

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Grossmann I, Rotella A, Hutcherson CA, Sharpinskyi K, Varnum MEW, Achter S et al. Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023 Apr;7(4):484-501. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

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