Behavioral and Experimental Economics
The research group includes scientists from economics, management, and psychology background. In their research, they use experimental approaches to study a variety of topics related to human judgment and decision-making, including:
- Why people behave dishonestly and how is it possible to reduce dishonest behavior in groups and organizations?
- How can judgment and decision-making in organizations be improved?
- What influences cooperation in social dilemmas?
Main focus:
- Judgment and decision-making
- Dishonesty, cheating, morality
- Behavioral interventions, nudges
What we offer:
- Design and implementation of field, laboratory and on-line research for the private and public sector
- Training in the field of behavioural interventions and in the areas of research design, implementation and evaluation (laboratory, on-line, field)
- Consultation of scientific research proposals and grant projects
- Development of international research cooperation, organization of research seminars
- Arranging research internships for students of the University of Economics in Prague
- Promoting the credibility of scientific research through adherence to the principles of “open science” and their popularization
Representatives of the team
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Ing. Štěpán Bahník, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Petr Houdek, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Marek Hudík, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Lubomír Cingl, Ph.D.
Ing. Tomáš Miklánek, M.A., Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D.
Mgr. Nicolas Say
Agnieszka Barbara Kolsińska, Ph.D.
Top publications of the team
- Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Celik-Katreniak, D., Chytilová, J., Cingl, L. & T. Želinský. (2024). Nastiness in Groups. Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 22, Issue 5, October 2024, Pages 2075–2107, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad072
- Frollová, N., Tkáčik, M., & Houdek, P. (2024). The leadership fallacy: How misattribution of leadership leads to a blaming game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 104, 102753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2024.102753
- Zickfeld, J. H., Ścigała, K. A., Elbæk, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. H., Levy, G., … Bahník, Š., … Mitkidis, P. (2024). Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0
Selected research projects
- Cognitive biases and fallacies in information handling and strategies to prevent them, The field of education
1.9. 2023 – 30. 11. 2026
Houdek, Petr
TA ČR
- Center for Inequality and Open Society (CONOS)
other Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Management
1.1. 2025 – 31. 12. 2028
Bahník, Štěpán
MŠMT
- Population ageing and related challenges for health and social systems (AGEING-CZ)
1.1. 2025 – 31. 12. 2028
Cingl, Lubomír
MŠMT
- Role of social preferences in cooperative behavior
1.7. 2022 – 30. 6. 2025
Miklánek, Tomáš
GA ČR
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