Eugen Dimant Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral & Decision Sciences University of Pennsylvania Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose and Polarized Norms Descriptive norms – the behavior of other individuals in one’s reference group – play a key role in shaping individual decisions. When characterizing the behavior of others, a standard approach in […]
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Daniel Herrera Burge Lab University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage.
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Tomáš Jagelka Institute for Applied Microeconomics University of Bonn Accounting for Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits Measures based on self-assessments, which are increasingly important in empirical economic research, are plagued by measurement error. […]
Sara Sanchez-Alonso Language Learning and Multisensory Brain (LLAMB) Lab Yale University Language neurobiology in early development: Advances in pediatric neuroimaging through multi-modal integration of fMRI and fNIRS Early childhood is an important period to establish foundational language skills, which critically impact subsequent language and educational achievements. Most language delays and disorders emerge during […]
Yphtach Lelkes Annenberg School of Communication University of Pennsylvania American partisans misperceive the diversity, not the extremity, of other partisans’ attitudes Misperceptions about the political “other” are commonly cited as a central cause of partisan animosity in America. Previous work has focused almost exclusively on American partisans’ perceptions of how extreme the “average” […]