Social Media (SM) is a rather new and wicked decision-making environment. Its ubiquity and short-term rewards exert a powerful influence on people of virtually all ages. This project focuses on boosting people in their decisions about when and how to engage with SM through an assistive smartphone app. We aim to develop different theory-driven self-nudges in collaboration with and on the app one sec and test their effects on a sample of real users. The results will not only provide insights into which theoretically interesting app interventions are practically effective, but also develop features that are subsequently used in a real app. The aim is to understand what it really means for a digital intervention to be effective.

David Grüning

David Grüning is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute (Center for Adaptive Rationality) & Stanford University (Center for Digital Health) focusing on digital interventions for well-being through app-based tools. He is the Scientific Director of the one sec app and more recently also of the Structured app.