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Summer Activities

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Conference papers and awards

Barbara Summers presented “Thinking About Decision Making on Behalf of Adults Who Can No Longer Make Decisions for Themselves” with Helen Convey and Janet Holt at the 13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), June 2016.

Rob Ranyard was invited to present “The psychology of borrowing and over-indebtedness” at the DFG Psychoeconomics Research Unit Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, June 2016.

Barbara Summers and Darren Duxbury presented “Risk Preference as Regret Control?” at the IAREP/ SABE 2016 Conference, Wadneningen, Netherlands, July 2016.

Caezilia Loibl, Barbara Summers, Simon McNair and Wandi Bruine de Bruin presented “Pension Freedom Day in the United Kingdom: Liberation or Irresponsibility? At the IAREP/ SABE 2016 Conference, Wadneningen, Netherlands, July 2016.

Alan Pearman, Ken-Ichi Shimomura, Barbara Summers and Simon McNair presented “What can experiments tell us about strategic behavior in two-person, non-zero-sum games?” at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, July 2016

Barbara Summers gave an invited talk to the 3rd EADM Summer School for PhD students at Amsterdam University on “Taxing Decisions…and Some Issues in doing Research in Real World Contexts”.

Gulbanu Kaptan presented the paper ‘Food evaluations and eating decisions: are judgments contagious?’ (with Baruch Fischhoff from Carnegie Mellon University, US) in the symposium on ‘Why we eat what we eat: new findings in eating psychology’ at the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Conference in Aberdeen, on 23-27 August.

Publications

Del Missier, F., Ranyard, R., & Bonini, N. (2016). Perceived inflation: The role of product accessibility and attitudes towards inflation. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 97-106

McNair, S., Summers, B., Bruine de Bruin, W., & Ranyard, R. (2016). Individual-level factors predicting consumer financial behavior at a time of high pressure. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 211-216

Strough, J., Bruine de Bruin, W., Parker, A.M., Lemaster, P., Pichayayothin, N., & Delaney, R. (in press).  Hour glass half-full or half-empty? Future time perspective and preoccupation with negative events across the life span. Psychology and Aging. (impact factor 2.7)

Wong-Parodi, G., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (in press). Informing public perceptions about climate change: A ‘mental models’ approach. Science and Engineering Ethics. (impact factor 1.5)

Chin, A., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (in press).  Eliciting stock market expectations: The effects of question wording on survey experience and response validity. Journal of Behavioral Finance. (impact factor .33)

Rob Ranyard’s chapters in edited books:

  1. Ranyard, R. (Ed.) (2017). Economic psychology: The science of economic mental life and behaviour. Chichester, UK: Wiley. (forthcoming - to be published in 2017).
  2. Antonides, G. & Ranyard, R. (2017). Mental accounting and economic behaviour.
  3. Ranyard, R., Ashton, J. & Hebenton, W. (2017). Insurance behaviour and society.
  4. Ranyard, R., Del Missier, F., Bonini, N., & Pietrone, D. (2017). The citizen's judgments of prices and inflation.
  5. Ranyard, R. & Ferriera, V. (2017). Introduction to economic psychology: the science of economic mental life and behaviour.
  6. Ranyard, R., McHugh, S. & McNair, S. (2017). The psychology of borrowing and over-indebtedness.

All but the first appear in: Ranyard, R. (Ed.) (2017). Economic psychology: The science of economic mental life and behaviour. Chichester, UK: Wiley. (submitted to the publishers, July 2016).