Sonia Alì

ORCID: 0000-0001-5767-1540
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Research Areas
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

University of Sussex
2020-2022

Columbia University
2019

University of Cambridge
2019

Advances in genetics and digital phenotyping psychiatry have given rise to testing services targeting young people, which claim predict psychiatric outcomes before difficulties emerge. These raise several ethical challenges surrounding data sharing information privacy.This study aimed investigate people's interest predictive for mental health their attitudes towards biological, psychosocial such purpose.Eighty UK adolescents aged 16-18 years took part a role-play where they played the role...

10.1136/ebmental-2021-300329 article EN cc-by Evidence-Based Mental Health 2022-03-28

Research in bioethics largely relies on interviews and surveys, which engage participants with scenarios that are distal time place to an actual situation. However, context embodiment relevant moral decision-making. Due the potential immerse a simulated environment, purpose-built games might prove valuable as empirical tools. As case study of gamifying bioethics, we describe co-design implementation "What Lies Ahead?", digital role-play scenario for research adolescents. Ahead?" engages...

10.1145/3397617.3397823 article EN 2020-06-21

Kahneman and Tversky’s 1979 article on Prospect Theory is one of the most influential papers across all behavioural sciences. The study tested a series binary financial (risky) choices, ultimately concluding that judgments formed under uncertainty deviate significantly from those presumed by expected utility theory, which was prevailing theoretical construct at time. In forty years since publication, this has had remarkable impact science, policy, other real-world applications. At same time,...

10.31219/osf.io/2nyd6 article EN 2019-08-21

Abstract Due to the prevalence and importance of choices with uncertain outcomes, it is essential establish what interventions improve risky decision-making, how they work, for whom. Two types low-intensity behavioural are promising candidates: nudges boosts. Nudges guide people better decisions by altering a choice presented, without restricting any options or modifying underlying payoff matrix. Boosts, on other hand, teach decision strategies that focus their attention key aspects choice,...

10.1057/s41599-021-00942-3 article EN cc-by Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2021-11-16

ABSTRACT Background Advances in genetics and digital phenotyping psychiatry have given rise to testing services targeting young people, which claim predict psychiatric outcomes before difficulties emerge. These raise several ethical challenges surrounding data sharing information privacy. Objectives This study aimed investigate people’s interest predictive for mental health challenges, their attitudes towards biological, psychosocial such purpose. Methods Eighty UK adolescents aged 16-18...

10.1101/2021.08.25.21262234 preprint EN cc-by medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021-08-26
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