Main areas of interest of the CEREB are:

behavioural economics

econometrics

psychology

individual and group decision making

educational research

economics of education

Research interests of the CEREB members:

Prof. Dr. Manfred Königstein, Professur für Angewandte Mikroökonomie

     
       

Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch, Professur für Sozial-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie

Judgment and Decision Making

Information Integration

Attitude and Preference Formation

Experience, Routines and Intuition

Deliberation and Automaticity in Adaptive Decision Making

  Tilmann Betsch: I am interested in understanding how individuals make conscious and unconscious decisions. Among others, my research addresses the following questions: How does the cognitive system processes and integrates choice relevant information such as goals, values and probabilistic cues? How do people make qualitative and quantitative judgments? How do people form attitudes towards objects and behavioural option? How does experience influences preference formation and routinization? What are the processes behind intuitive decisions? How do automatic and deliberate processes help us adapting to changing environments?
 

Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach, Professur für Mikroökonomie, insbesondere Industrieökonomie

Cooperation in social dilemmata

Endogenous institution choice

Contracts and labor relations

Industrial organization

Game theory and behavioral economics

  Bettina Rockenbach: My main research focus is on institutions fostering cooperation in social dilemma situations and their endogenous choice and development. In interdisciplinary research groups we conduct experimental as well as (game) theoretic research on this topic. In addition I am interested in (incomplete) contracts in an inter-cultural perspective, labor relations and various problems from industrial organization.
     

Prof. Dr. Johannes Jaenicke, Juniorprofessur für Ökonometrie

Social Interactions

Socioeconomic Panel Analysis

Multivariate Probit Analysis

Monte Carlo Simulation

Price Transmission

Univariate and Multivariate

ime Series Analysis

  Johannes Jaenicke: By the means of microeconometric methods, I analyse socioeconomically relevant topics such as education and labour market decisions. Additionally, I use univariate and multivariate time series methods to analyse the transmission of energy prices and interest rates.
     

Prof. Dr. Robert Jung, Professur für Ökonometrie

   
     

Prof. Dr. Nicole J. Saam, Professur für Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung

organizational development

organizational consultation

intergovernmental negotiations

policy innovation

agent-based social simulation

  Nicole J. Saam: My first research focus is on organizations striving for organisational development and change. Often consultancies are involved in these processes. We conduct qualitative studies with semi-structured interviews on this topic. Research questions are: how do organizations achieve major organizational change? How do consultants work? My second research focus is on intergovernmental negotiations and on policy innovations. Here, we apply agent-based social simulation. Based on empirical data we simulate negotiations and policy innovation on the computer. Research questions are: how can we explain the outcome of intergovernmental negotiations? How can we explain the spread of policy innovations?
     

Prof. Dr. Ernst Hany, Professur für Pädagogisch-psychologische Diagnostik und Differentielle Psychologie

self-regulation of development

assessment of competencies

educational innovation

evaluation studies

  Ernst Hany: How personal and social resources are used for the development of competencies; how the development of expertise can be modeled and measured; how members of educational institutions can be motivated to adopt innovations
     

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kracke, Professur für Entwicklungs- und Erziehungspsychologie

career development in childhood

career decision making as interpersonal regulation process

settings of career counseling and decision-making

career exploration across the life-span

  Bärbel Kracke: My research interests address social and institutional influences on the career development of individuals under the perspective of self-regulation. The main focus is on antecedents and consequences of career exploration across the life-span and in several contexts, such as, school, family, and conselling settings. Current PhD theses examine the structure of children´s knowledge about prerequisites of individual career development, the cooperation of parents and teachers in school-based career instruction, the mutual influence of career-related activities of adolescents and their parents during the transition from school to university.
     

Dr. Frank Renkewitz

Judgment and decision making

Probability and frequency estimates

Publication biases and methods for their detection

Risk perception

  Frank Renkewitz: My research currently focuses on decision strategies, determinants of the selection of such strategies and the development of empirical methods for their identification. In particular, I am interested in the role of memory processes in decision making. Additionally, I investigate heuristic processes and the discounting of heuristic information in frequency and probability estimates. Moreover, I am interested in publication biases in the field of psychology and statistical methods for their detection.
     

Dr. Özgür Gürerk

   
     

Dr. Cornelia Betsch

Judgment and decision making

Intuition and affect-based decision making

indivdiual differences: decision styles

Risk perception and communication

Cornelia Betsch: My current interests are especially in the development of assessing individual differences in decision styles (e.g. intuitive and deliberate decision making) and the consequences of using these styles. Moreover, I am interested in risk perception and communication in the domain of preventive health decision making (e.g. vaccination decisions); I focus on risk-as-feelings processes in the perception of helath messages.

 

     










 

 

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