MU-CEN: Maastricht University CEnter of Neuroeconomics

Interdisciplinary Brownbag Seminar of Behavioral Sciences – Theory and Empirics

Archive

Fall 2024

September

September 19, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Magdalena Wasilewska (University of Amsterdam / Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making (CREED))
Narratives about inequality

October

October 3, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Anne Friesacher (MPE)
Prosociality under acute stress: exploring the role of sex and baseline social preferences

October 10, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Selin Arslanoğlu (Tilburg University)
Group Identification and Rule-Following

October 17, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Julian Ashwin (MILE)
Measuring multidimensional wellbeing with unstructured interviews

October 31, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Duangrat Prajaksilpthai (Tilburg University)
Anxiety and motivated beliefs in the financial domain

November

November 7, 12:00-13.00, room E1.02 CANCELLED
Matthias Wibral (MPE)

November 14, 12:00-13:00, room H0.06
Yuki Takahashi (Tilburg University)
Does the Gender Ratio at Colleges Affect High School Students’ College Choices?

November 21, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Markus Eyting (University of Mainz/Stanford University)
Consequences of (perceived) discrimination on the discriminated

November 28, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
Stefan Weiland (Finance)
A Theoretical Model of Efficiency Distributions: Deriving the Shape of the Efficiency Distribution in Stochastic Frontier Models

December

December 5, 12:00-13:00, room H0.06
Eliza Stenzhorn (ZEW Mannheim)
Protecting privacy

December 12, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Gewei Cao (MPE/ MPI-CSL)
Modern Slavery and Mistrust: a conceptual replication of Nunn & Wantchekon (2011, AER)

Spring 2024

January

January 18, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Anne Friesacher/Nicolas Kurtenbach (MPE)
Background Uncertainty, Beliefs and Social Behaviour

January 25, 12:00 – 13:00, room E0.04
Giuseppe Musillo (Tilburg University)
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance

February

February 1, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Pedro Gonzalez (MPE)
Belief Bias Identification

February 8, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
Eva Markowsky (University of Hamburg)
Gender and performance under competitive pressure: A meta-analysis of experimental studies

February 22, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Max Grossmann (University of Cologne)
Paternalism and Deliberation

February 29, 12:00-13:00, room H0.06
Aleksandr Alekseev (University of Regensburg)
The Economics of Babysitting a Robot

March

Marco De Carlo (IMT Luca)
Vocal minorities in social media

March 21, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Jason Sockin (IZA Berlin)
We’ve Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson

April

April 11, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
Max Thon (University of Cologne)
How to increase diversity? Field-experimental evidence on emphasizing flexibility and pay in job advertisements

April 18, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Riya Sa (Tilburg University)
Text architecture: how does the partitioned response format affect what consumers say?

April 25, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Paul Grass (University of Bonn)
Sticky Models

May

May 2, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Till Wicker (Tilburg University)
Helping Cash Transfer Recipients Prosper: Experimental Evidence from a Humanitarian Setting

May 16, 12:00-13.00, room A0.24 POSTPONED
James Wilkinson (FPN)
Eliciting time and effort preferences

May 23, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
Yi Sheng (Tilburg University)
Other-regarding ethnic discrimination

May 30, 12:00-13.00, room C-1.03
Carla Colossi (Utrecht University)
Does the end justify the measure? Contraceptive choice and performance-based financing in family planning

June

June 5 (WED), 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
Tingting Ding (James Madison University)
Should Birds of a Feather Learn Together? An Experimental Study on How Group Composition Affects Social Learning.

June 20, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Muhammed Bulutay (TU Berlin)
Better than Perceived? Correcting Misperceptions about Central Bank Inflation Forecasts

June 27, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. CANCELLED
Shuzhen Li (Utrecht University)
Beyond returns: Probing the resilience of sustainability preferences

Fall 2023

September

September 7, 13:30-14:30, room C-1.05
Milan Van Steenvoort (MPE)
Exposure to refugees and electoral outcomes

September 14, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 TO BE RESCHEDULED
Charlotte Kroll (MPE/FPN)
Oxytocin & Prosociality

September 21, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Ozge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
Do All Women Shy Away from Competition? Competitive Preferences Among different ethnic groups in the Netherlands

September 28, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Ruth van Holst (Amsterdam UMC)
Risky Choices, Lost Bets: Reward Processing and Decision Making in Gambling Disorder

October

October 5, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Karlijn Hoyer (Amsterdam University)
Greed and Trading Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets

October 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Anna Schulze Tilling (University of Bonn)
Changing consumption behavior with carbon labels: Causal evidence on behavioral channels and effectiveness

October 19, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Steve Heinke (Universität Basel)
Avoiding bad risks: How risk aversion is beneficial for financial decision-making

October 26, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
Te Bao (Nanyang Technological University
Cognitive Uncertainty, GPT, and Contribution in Public Goods Game

November

November 9, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Peiran Jiao (Finance)
Norms make investors socially responsible

November 16, 12:00-13:00, room F0.05
James Wilkinson (FPN)
Eliciting time and effort preferences

November 23, 12:00-13:00, room G1.11
Charlotte Kroll (MPE & FPN)
Oxytocin, individual differences, and trust game behavior: a registered large-scale replication

November 30, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
David Albrecht (MPE)
Mitigating manipulation in expert committees: Just let them talk!

December

December 7, 13:15-14:15, room A0.24
Lars Wittrock (MPE)
Optimal Memory with Sequential Learning: Signals or Posterior Beliefs

December 14, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
Anna Hager (University of Bielefeld)
t.b.a

Spring 2023

January

January 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Lydia Hofmann (Master Student FPN)
Modafinil: Cognitive and Patience Enhancer? The Influence of Modafinil on Cognitive Ability and Time Preference

January 19, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Kaiqi Liu (MPE)
Dynamic portfolio choice for loss-averse investors: a simulation method with wealth grid

February

February 2, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Lars Wittrock (MPE)
Belief updating and misinformation

February 9, 14:00-15:00, room A1.22
King King Li (Shenzhen University)
The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market

February 16, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Hannes Rusch (MPE)
Success and failure of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

February 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Paul Bokern (MPE)
The Convergent and External Validity of Risk Preference Elicitation Methods: Controlling for Measurement Error in a Large Dutch Sample

March

March 2, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Yoni Slater (FPN, Section Forensic Psychology)
Between self-interest and social preferences – A neuromodulation approach to establish the role of cognitive-control

March 9, 12:00-13:00, room E3.04 & Zoom
Eliza Stenzhorn (University of Bremen)
Lock-in effects in online labor markets

March 16, 12:00-13:00, ONLINE
Ioannis Evangelidis (ESADE Business School (Barcelona))
When Willingness-to-Pay Seems Irrational: The Role of Perceived Market Price

March 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Jona Linde (MPE)
Freeriding in teams in the lab and in the field

March 30, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
Andreas Ziegler (University of Amsterdam & the Tinbergen Institute)
Persuading an audience: Testing information design in the laboratory

April

April 6, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
Hannes Rusch (MPE)
Groupiness in the field II – First results

April 20, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Yi Sheng (Tilburg University)
Help to signal

May

May 4, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Nicolas Kurtenbach (MPE)
When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire

May 11, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
Nathalie Roemer (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Economic Policy)
Breaking the Bias: The Effect of Self-Promotion on Gender Equality in the Workplace

May 25, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
Sören Harrs (University of Cologne)
Fairness and Political Preferences

June

June 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 POSTPONED
Matthias Wibral (MPE)
When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire

June 8, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. POSTPONED
Daylín Góngora (MPE)
t.b.a.

June 15, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. POSTPONED
Devrim Dumludag (Marmara University) & Özge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
t.b.a.

June 22, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
Oda Sund (University of Amsterdam)
Randomness or a higher power? –How religion relates to inequality acceptance

Fall 2022

September

September 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
David Albrecht (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
The Debt Aversion Survey Module

September 8, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Arno Riedl (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Global Competition Favors Cooperative Strategies in Indirect Reciprocal Interactions

September 15, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Jenna Barrett (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management)
The correspondence between objective and subjective financial well-being: Evidence from a nationally representative sample

September 22, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 & Zoom
Leticia Micheli (University of Würzburg) & Bruno Martorano (UNU-MERIT)
The impact of information about inequality on students’ educational aspirations

September 28 (WEDNESDAY), 13:00-14:00, H0.06 & Zoom
Frauke Stehr (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Dodging high impact behavior with motivated beliefs

October

October 6, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
Lidingrong Huang (Department of Finance)
Customers Reciprocate

October 13, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
Milan Van Steenvoort (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Does a gender-biased stopping rule really decrease fertility?

October 20, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
Hannes Rusch & Peter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Open Science

November

November 3, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
Martin Strobel (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Measuring Betrayal Aversion

November 10, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
Michal Bodický (MPE)
Human decision-making in chess: An evaluation by computer analysis

November 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
Thomas Post (Department of Finance)
Cognitive constraints, planned savings and downstream economic behaviors

November 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
James Wilkinson & Tobias Otto
Cognitive fatigue and effort-based decision-making

December

December 7 (WEDNESDAY), 12:00-13:00, A0.23
Giannis Lois (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
The role of social identity in updating factual beliefs: identity-based discounting or biased prior impressions?

December 15, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
Lina M. Lozano (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Attribution of failure and success in strategic settings

Spring 2022

January

January 27, 12:00-13:00, Zoom
Elias Tsakas (MPE)
Identification of misreported beliefs

February

February 3, 12:00-13:00, Zoom
Xinxin Zhu (Department of Finance)
How does financial education influence investor portfolio allocation? An experimental analysis

February 10, 12:00-13:00, TAP11 D0.014 & Zoom
Lars Wittrock (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Belief Updating and Misinformation

February 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Paul Bokern (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
The nature of risk attitudes – Evidence from a large population sample

February 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Adriana Iamnitchi (Institute of Data Science)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Media

March

March 3, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & Zoom
Peter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
On common evaluation standards and the acceptance of wage inequality

March 10, 12:00-13:00, Zoom
Anne Friesacher (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Examining the relationship between acute stress and social preferences

March 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Diogo Geraldes (Utrecht University)
Women Dislike Competing Against Men

March 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Christoph Semken (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions

March 31, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & Zoom
Anouk Festjens (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management )
The effect of financial constraints on economic decision-making

April

April 7, 12:00-13:00, G1.01 & Zoom
Eveline Vandewal (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Strategic Reasoning

April 21, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Hannes Rusch (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Groupiness in the field – Intermediate results

April 28, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & Zoom
James Tremewan
Reasoning and persuasion in social dilemmas

May

May 12, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & Zoom
Paul Smeets (Department of Finance)
Are investors willing to pay for sustainable investments?

May 19, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Peiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
Dynamic inconsistency in risky investment decisions

June

June 2, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Katlijn Haesebrouck (Department of Accounting and Information Management)
Motivating Effortful Information Acquisition and Honest Reporting: The Effect of Input, Output, and Hybrid Control

June 9, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Stefan Flagner (Department of Finance (SBE) & Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences (FHML))
The impact of indoor carbon dioxide on human cognition and health

June 16, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Max Löffler (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

June 23, 12.00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
Peiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
Taste, Asymmetric Updating, and Valuation

Fall 2021

September

September 16, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Alexander Vostroknutov (MPE)
Affective Decision Making

September 23, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Pedro González Fernández (MPE)
Individual Heterogeneity in Probabilistic Judgement and the Role of Ownership

September 30, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Marvin Gleue (University of Münster/Ruhr University Bochum)
Moral Balancing in Sustainable Behavior

November

November 4, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Christopher Kops (KE)
Testing Negative Value of Information and Ambiguity Aversion

November 11, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Bin Dong (Finance)
Belief, Ambiguity Perception, and Norm following – Meesman Project

November 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Pol Herrero Castillo
Are you sure? Heuristics & Biases and COVID-19

November 23 (WEDNESDAY), 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Nickolas Gagnon (Aarhus University)
Ideals and Norms of Discrimination

Spring 2021

February

February 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Frauke Stehr (MPE)
Dodging High Impact Behavior with Motivated Beliefs

February 25, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Jenna Barrett (MSCM)
Experience sampling for promoting pension savings

March

March 11, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
David Albrecht (MPE)
Collective intelligence despite hidden agendas: Antidotes to manipulation in small group forecasting

March 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Oda Kristine Storstad Sund (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Unleveling the playing-field? Parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage

March 25, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Eveline Vandewal (MPE)
Reciprocity and information search in the prisoner’s dilemma game

April

April 8, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
Giannis Lois (MPE)
Prospects of upward mobility or political inequality: Antecedents of the persistent economic inequality

May

May 20, 12:30-13:30
Peter Werner (MPE)
The value of honest feedback

May 27, 12:30-13:30
Caroline Goukens (MW)
The Zero Price Effect(s). Why offering something for free can act as a double-edge sword

June

June 3, 12:30-13:30
Matthias Wibral (MPE)

June 17, 12:30-13:30
Eveline Vandewal (MPE)
Social Preferences and Information Search in Strategic Games: An Online Experiment

June 24, 12:30-13:30
Paul Smeets (Finance)
Investor Memory

Aline Dantas (MSCM & FPN)
A gut feeling: How your gut and brain determine your choices

July

July 1, 11:30 – 12:30
Peter Werner (MPE)
The impact of co-benefits on voluntary climate change mitigation

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