Topics of interest include: - happiness and social interactions in the production and consumption spheres - interpersonal climate, organizational performance and worker satisfaction - implicit prices of quantity and characteristics of social interactions - experimental studies of personalized...

In economics, “relativity” is the idea that it is position relative to others that motivates behavior and determines individual and therefore social wellbeing. This idea has distinguished pedigree, going back in modern times to Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis, and even further...

Following on INCS's 2008 theme, "The Emergence of Human Rights," this conference will focus on "the pursuit of happiness," that elusive corollary to life and liberty. What form did happiness and the comprehension of happiness take in the nineteenth century? How, for example, did the legacy of...

The conference will bring together researchers working on the multiple aspects of this theme: emotions and motivation, developmental processes, neuro-anatomic determinants, game theory, as well as social and evolutionary perspectives. We also intend to portray a contemporary picture of research...

"Contributions are welcomed from any field of the humanities, social sciences, natural and technical sciences." "Two categories of abstracts will be considered: A)Research and education in interdisciplinarity; and, B)Research and education in the scope of one of the 2008 symposium’s central...

We welcome original contributions, both theoretical and empirical, on different subjects related to the study of behaviour and to experiments in social sciences: experimental economics, behavioural economics, psychology and economics, consumer behaviour and sensorial research, behavioural...

Neuroeconomic research investigates the interaction between neuroscience, psychology, economics and consumer behaviour. This new and fascinating approach seems to be promising because on the one side, neuronal activity underlies economic principles, and on the other side, our decision-making...

Das Motto der diesjährigen Konferenz lautet: “Research in Neuroscience, Psychology, Business, and Economics – Towards a Discipline of Neuroeconomics” Von besonderem Interesse sind Beiträge, die Konzepte der Psychologie und/oder der Neurowissenschaften mit Fragestellungen der...

The symposium's main theme is Decision Making: Interdependent and Individual approaches. We aim for contributions from the fields of the Dynamics of Bargaining, Social Decision Making, Power and Influence, Group and/or Team Decision Making, Social Dilemmas, Experimental Games, Fairness and...

The field of "psychology and economics" focuses on systematic deviations from the standard economic model and asks how they affect important economic decisions such as savings, investment, labor supply, or purchase decisions. To do this, "behavioral economics" builds upon insights from a variety...