Time's running out to sign up for the Economic Science Association world meeting July 15-17 in beautiful Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles). The day before (July 14), we're hosting a "choice process" symposium with many amazing speakers. Best part - it's free with ESA registration.
Submit (by June 1) and register (by June 8) at the conference website: sites.google.com/view/esa202…
In addition to a fantastic program, the conference location is right on the beach, and very close to spots where you can swim, surf, SUP, beach volleyball... Join us for a great time!
Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/6)
At a minimum, eye tracking confirms that eyeballs are pointed at the screen, which alone keeps AI agents from completing studies on their own. With a bit more work, researchers can also verify that a human is genuinely attending to the task. (5/6)
Calling all economists! Jenn Pate and I are hosting The ESA Meetings in July 14th-17th in sunny Los Angeles. Still accepting submissions - we welcome any experimental paper - lab, field, survey... & novel methods to answer behavioral questions.
sites.google.com/view/esa202…
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xc…
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Excited to be participating in the workshop on Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings in Lucca (Italy) April 27-28. There's a great lineup, with Giorgio Coricelli, Susann Fiedler, Andreas Glöckner, and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. Join us! decisionmaking.imtlucca.it/
📣 New book chapter
Very excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by David Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and Dominic Fareri.
link.springer.com/chapter/10…
New paper in @CognitionJourn, where we show how attention impacts political choices. With an eye-tracking study, we find that people's voting choices aren't set in stone - they take longer to vote on divisive issues and can be swayed by gaze manipulations. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
Building on past attentional drift diffusion model (aDDM) work, we find that gaze has a stronger effect on choice for more important issues. This work shows how ballot design can influence political outcomes, by drawing attention to certain options. Project led by @taroyang3302.
Belated congratulations to our former labmate @MirunaCotet for her Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics. The award celebrates her work on the cognitive dynamics of bargaining, using eBay data, published in PNAS. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…#SNE2025
Excited to share our new lab website!
Konovalov Neuroeconomics Lab
konelab.org/
Our research covers quite a few topics and methods across neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and behavioral economics:
Come work with us! The Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHir…
For anyone on the west side of Los Angeles, I'll be at the Rosegold Saloon tomorrow night, presenting at their Pint of Science event. I'll be giving an overview of my lab's research, pub style. We'll be wrestling with the age-old question - ale or lager? pintofscience.us/event/from-…
Excited to share a new Trends in Cognitive Sciences paper that I had the pleasure to be a part of. This is an interdisciplinary perspective on the dynamics of cognitive costs, namely when these costs occur and how they impact our decisions. #neuroeconomicssciencedirect.com/science/ar…