Colloquium

Current topics in social, economic, and decision psychology

Program — Spring Semester 2023

  • 23 February: Kristian Nielsen, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab: Increasing psychology’s contribution to mitigating climate change
  • 2 March: Basler Fasnacht: No seminar
  • 9 March: Chris Donkin, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Getting rid of bias in decision making
  • 16 March: Rahul Bhui, MIT Sloan School of Management: A rational account of the repulsion effect (17:00-18:00, Zoom)
  • 23 March: Hugo Mercier, CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris: Why do people trust in science?
  • 30 March: Laura Bringmann, University of Groningen: Back to basics: The importance of conceptualization and measurement in psychological science (12:00-13:00, Zoom)
  • 6 April: Easter break: No seminar
  • 20 April: Giovanni Travaglino, Royal Holloway, University of London: Competing social orders: the political influence of organized criminal groups on communities (12:00-13:00, Zoom)
  • 27 April: Alain Quiamzade, University of Geneva: Minority Report: How minorities preparedness to argue can change the future of society
  • 11 May: Jean-Louis van Gelder, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law: Short-term mindsets and crime
  • 18 May: Auffahrt: No seminar
  • 25 May: Taciano Milfont, University of Waikato
  • 1 June: Kinneret Teodorescu, Technion Institute of Technology (17:00-18:00, Zoom)

Previous colloquia

Fall semester 2022

  • 22 September (10:00, virtual): Danny Osborne, School of Psychology, University of Auckland: Is the personal always political? Examining the boundaries of the relationship between personality and political attitudes
  • 29 September (12:00, virtual): Markus Strohmaier, Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim: Interpretability of large-scale neural models of text
  • 6 October (17:00, virtual): Aaron Benjamin, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: The metacognition of participation
  • 13 October (12:00, virtual): Verena Tiefenbeck, Digital Transformation, Friedrich-Alexander University: Does the end affect the means? Purpose-dependent effects of behavioral interventions in online grocery shopping
  • 20 October (12:00, in-person): Agnes Rosner, SNF Ambizione, University of Zurich: Exemplar retrieval in preferential judgments
  • 27 October (17:00, virtual): Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Earth System Science, University of Stanford: Responses to global environmental change: Mitigation to adaptation
  • 3 November (17:00, in-person): Ulf Hahnel, Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change, University of Basel: A multidimensional perspective on sustainability and behavior change
  • 10 November (12:00, in-person): Sebastian Berger, Sustainable Social Development, University of Bern
  • 17 November (in-person): Emanuele Politi, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven Psychological advances in refugee perspectives on migration and integration
  • 1 December (17:00, virtual): James Wirth, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University: Ostracism as a social tool for managing burdensome others
  • 8 December (17:00, virtual): Emorie D Beck, Psychology Department, UC Davis: A taxonomy of data synthesis
  • 15 December (12:00, in-person): Ivy Defoe, Forensic Child and Youth Care Sciences, University of Amsterdam: Towards a hybrid criminological and psychological model of risk behavior: The Developmental Neuro-Ecological Risk-taking Model (DNERM)

Spring semester 2022

  • 17 March (17:00–18:00; virtual): Florian Hett, Chair of Digital Economics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Time inconsistency and overdraft use: Evidence from transaction data and behavioral measurement experiments
  • 24 March (12:00–13:00; Seminarraum 00.004): Daniela Jopp, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne: Centenarians: Between vulnerability and resilience
  • 31 March (17:00–18:00; virtual): Jonathan Chapman, Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi: Loss attitudes in the U.S. population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
  • 7 April (12:00-13:00; Seminarraum 00.004): David Richter, Survey Manager SOEP-IS, Free University Berlin: The personality of inherited and self-made millionaires
  • 5 May (17:00–18:00; virtual): Michael Bernstein, Psychological & Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University: Negative reactions to single-group protesters—the role of perceived exclusion
  • June (17:00–18:00; virtual): John Clithero, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon: Resolving the dilemma of dirty money: A computational account

Fall semester 2021

  • 23 September (17:00-18:00): Marta Serra-Garcia, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego: Cognitive flexibility or moral commitment? Evidence of anticipated belief distortion
  • 7 October: Brad Love, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London: Embedding spaces for decision making
  • 21 October: Olivia Guest, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University: On logical inference over brains, behavior, and artificial neural networks
  • 28 October: Morten Moshagen, Psychological Research Methods, University of Ulm: The dark factor of personality
  • 4 November (16:00-17:00): Jennifer Trueblood, Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University: Attentional dynamics explain the elusive nature of context effects
  • 11 November: Lene Aarøe, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University: Psychological biases for cheater detection shape social transmission of political news stories and trust
  • 25 November (15:00-16:00): Peter Wegier, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada: ARISE—Aiding Risk Information learning through Simulated Experience
  • 9 December: Anatolia Batruch, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne: School meritocracy and the reproduction of social class inequalities
  • 16 December: Wiebke Bleidorn, University of Zürich: Personality trait development across the lifespan – emerging principles and new directions

Spring semester 2021

  • 4 March: Ori Plonsky, Technion Israel Institute of Technology: Similarity-based learning and the wavy recency effect of rare events
  • 11 March: Helene Willadsen, University of Copenhagen: Eliciting time, risk and social preferences in children: A validated survey
  • 18 March: Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Chair of Artificial Intelligence, University of Mannheim: Natural language processing meets behavioral finance: Vagueness, risk perception, and volatility
  • 25 March: Scott Brown, University of Newcastle, Australia: From bench to bedside in cognitive science
  • 1 April: Sudeep Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania: Process and content in decisions from memory
  • 8 April: Franziska Ehrke, University Koblenz-Landau Department of Social, Environmental and Economic Psychology: Vicarious contact in media interventions: The role of ingroup perspective taking and outgroup empathy
  • 15 April: Zhansheng Chen, University of Hong Kong, Department of Psychology: When people permit the innocent to suffer: A generalized compensation belief hypothesis
  • 22 April: Amber Gayle Thalmayer, University of Lausanne, Research in Personality, Mental Health and Culture: How universal is the Big Five? Lexical studies of personality in African languages complicate the story
  • 29 April: Isabel Thielmann, University of Koblenz-Landau: Lying but still feeling moral: How individuals balance the costs and benefits of immoral action
  • 20 May: Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol: Resisting the knowledge dementors: The truth about “post-truth”
  • Rava Azeredo da Silveira, University of Basel: Cognitive biases and costly mental representations
  • 10 June: Michael Bosnjak, Director, Leibniz-Institute for Psychology (ZPID – Leibniz Institute), University of Trier: Open science services offered by ZPID
  • 17 June: Nicolas Sommet, University of Lausanne: Income inequality fosters competitiveness at school
  • 24 June: Marie Crouzevialle, ETH Zürich
  • 1 July: Renzo Bianchi, University of Neuchâtel: Burnout or occupational depression? An overview of recent developments in job distress research

Fall Semester 2020

  • 24 September: Sandro Ambühl, University of Zürich: Incentives and the quality of decision making
  • 8 October: Björn Meder, Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Understanding of and reasoning with verbal uncertainty terms
  • 22 October: Michael Siegrist, ETH Zürich: The yuck emotion: How disgust influences people’s risk perceptions and behaviour
  • 5 November: Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Monitoring the dynamics of real life using ambulatory assessment
  • 12 November: Thomas Hancock, University of Leeds: Decision Field Theory for choices in real-world settings
  • 19 November: Daniel Lakens, Eindhoven University of Technology: The new heuristics
  • 3 December: Zwetilina Illiewa, University of Bonn:
  • 10 December: Maria Wimber, University of Glasgow: Memory recall as a dynamic and reconstructive process
  • 17 December: Stefan Pfattheicher, Aarhus University: On the relation of boredom and sadism (and other cruelties)

Fall Semester 2019

  • 26 September: Jörn Hurtienne, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg: Numeracy in the lab and in the wild: A focus on the efficacy and action of subjective numeracy
  • 3 October: Christina Leuker, Max Planck Institute for Human Development: How do risk–reward structures shape judgments and decisions?
  • 10 October: Stefan Mayer, University of Tübingen, and Jan R Landwehr, Goethe University Frankfurt: Capturing determinants of processing fluency using deep neural networks to predict consumer behaviour
  • 17 October: Mandy Hütter, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen: A sampling approach to evaluative conditioning
  • 24 October: Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania: Bernoulli Lecture 2019: Strategic self-control
  • 7 November: Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick: The Bayesian sampler: Generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability judgements
  • 14 November: Manuel Völkle, Humboldt University of Berlin: Timing is everything! An introduction to continuous time dynamic modelling
  • 21 November: Urte Scholz, University of Zürich: Benefits and pitfalls of social relationships for health-relevant behaviours
  • 28 November: June Tangney, George Mason University: Borrowing from social psychology: A clinical psychologist’s tale
  • 4 December: Thomas Hills, University of Warwick: The dark side of information proliferation
  • 5 December: Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Action and inaction in a social world
  • 19 December: Jan Schmitz, ETH Zürich: Trustworthiness and new financial technologies

Spring Semester 2019

  • 28 February: Bertolt Meyer, Institute of Psychology, TU Chemnitz: Team fault lines: A meta analysis
  • 7 March: Jan Gläscher, Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf: Successful cooperation by coordination of mental models
  • 14 March: Peter Bossaerts, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne: Towards biological foundations of decisions with uncertainty: A mission incomplete
  • 21 March: Gökhan Aydogan, Department of Economics, University of Zurich: Neural substrates of self-control: Comparing evidence from small-task-fMRI experiments and brain structure in 12,675 individuals
  • 4 April: Björn Bartling, Department of Economics, University of Zürich: Do markets undermine moral values?
  • 11 April: Frédéric-Guillaume Schneider, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge: The persistent power of promises
  • 18 April: Pantelis Analytis, Danish Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Southern Denmark: Make-or-break: Chasing risky goals or settling for safe rewards?
  • 25 April: Silvia Maier, Department of Economics, University of Zurich: Individual differences in neural and psychophysiological characteristics during self-regulation
  • 2 May: Karl Teigen, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo: Out of the blue: Subjective perceptions of randomness
  • 9 May: Evelyn Maeder and Susan Yamamoto, Carleton University, Ottawa: Moral intuitions and jury decision-making
  • 16 May: Ian Krajbich, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University: Using process data to infer preferences and beliefs

Fall Semester 2018

  • 20 September: Douglas Bates, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Fitting complex mixed-effects models to large datasets
  • 27 September: Ellen Peters, Ohio State University. Innumeracy in the lab and in the wild: A focus on the efficacy and action of subjective numeracy
  • 11 October: Carlos Alos-Ferrer, University of Zurich. Strength of preference and economic decision making
  • 18 October: Bernoulli Lecture 2018: John List, University of Chicago.
  • 25 October: Ruben Arslan, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. What can we learn from one simple question? Reconciling cognitive scientists with self reports by treating them as a task
  • 01 November: Tomas Knapen, Department of Experimental & Applied Psychology, Free University Amsterdam. Mapping the dark side: Visual selectivity of default network deactivations
  • 8 November: Antoine Bommier, ETH Zürich. Considerations on risk and time preferences: about recursive preferences, household finance and the value of life
  • 22 November: Lena Nadarevic, University of Mannheim. On the stability and malleability of the truth effect
  • 29 November: Iris Schneider, University of Cologne. The psychology of ambivalence: causes and consequences of mixed feelings
  • 06 December: Peter Juslin, Uppsala University. Precise or non-precise: Modeling error distributions to distinguish between intuitive and analytic cognitive processes
  • 13 December: Ulrich Schmidt, University of Kiel. Differential discounting and the equity premium puzzle

Spring Semester 2018

  • February 22, 2018: David Budescu: Identifying expertise and the wisdom of selected crowds
  • March 1, 2018: Fabian Krüger: Forecast evaluation: The role(s) of the scoring function
  • March 8, 2018: Stefan Trautmann: Inequality, fairness and social capital
  • March 15, 2018: Tom Schonberg: New behavioral and imaging findings on the cue-approach effect: A non-reinforced mechanism of behavior change
  • March 22, 2018: David Funder: Accuracy in personality judgment: A (very) long view
  • April 5, 2018: Tobias Vogel: Do we really like the average guy? Prototype preferences and their reversals
  • April 12, 2018: Stefan Zeisberger: What is investment risk?
  • April 19, 2018: Edgar Erdfelder: Statistical power: A key concept in the emergence and surmounting of the replication crisis
  • April 26, 2018: Arkady Konovalov: Response time as strategic choice
  • May 3, 2018: Roland Imhoff: Using data-driven approaches to rethink the definitions of stereotypes and prejudices
  • May 17, 2018: Stefano Palminteri: State-dependent evaluation and confirmatory biases in reward and punishment learning
  • May 24, 2018: Oliver Genschow: Let’s unravel the social chameleon: Investigations on the underlying processes of imitation
  • May 31, 2018: Emmanouil Konstantinidis: The path to risky intertemporal choice: Preference accumulation, sequential evaluation, and delayed optimism
  • June 7, 2018: Tobin Hanspal: Market expectations and investment behavior: The case of the disposition effect

Fall Semester 2017

  • September 28, 2017: Jana Jarecki
  • October 5, 2017: Alex Koch
  • October 12, 2017: Marc Schreiber
  • October 19, 2017: Pascal Gygax
  • October 26, 2017: Yaacov Trope
  • November 16, 2017: Paolo Riva
  • November 23, 2017: Sabina Hunziker Schütz
  • November 30, 2017: Jan Dijkstra
  • December 7, 2017: Martin Weber
  • December 14, 2017: Jiska Peper

Spring Semester 2017

  • March 16, 2017: Julia Rohrer
  • March 23, 2017: Susanne Scheibe
  • March 23, 2017: Isabel Gauthier
  • April 6, 2017: Christopher Summerfield
  • April 20, 2017: Marcus Lindskog
  • April 27, 2017: Claudia Baez-Camargo
  • May 4, 2017: Tobias Bothe-Hutschenreuter
  • May 11, 2017: Helga Fehr
  • May 18, 2017: Marcus Grüschow
  • June 1, 2017: Christoph Korn

Fall Semester 2016

  • Sep 29, 2016: Dirk Wulff
  • Oct 13, 2016: Willem Frankenhuis
  • Nov 3, 2016: Wolfgang Viechtbauer
  • Nov 14, 2014: Mael Lebreton
  • Nov 24, 2016: Tobias Sommer-Blöchl
  • Dec 1, 2016: Florian Schmitz
  • Dec 15, 2016: Barbara Muller

Spring Semester 2016

  • February 26, 2016: Rani Moran
  • March 17, 2016: Laurenz Meier
  • April 7, 2016: Dominique Muller
  • April 21, 2016: Wouter van den Bos
  • April 28, 2016: Sebastian Horn
  • May 19, 2016: Guillaume Sescousse
  • May 26, 2016: Chick Judd
  • June 2, 2016: Christoph Eisenegger