The Team

Prof. Dr. Tania Singer

Director at the , Department of Social Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany

Current areas of research:

• Social and Affective Neuroscience

• Neuroeconomics and Social Decision-Making
• Effects of Mental Training and Plasticity Research
• Child Development of Social Cognition and Decision-Making
• Psychopathology (e.g. Autism, Narcissism, Borderline)
• Evolutionary Basis of Social Behavior

President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany and Professor of Economics, Chair of Economic Theory, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

Current areas of research:

• Unemployment
• Inflation
• Monetary and Fiscal Policies
• Employment Policies
• Reform of the Welfare State
• Organisational Change
• Wage Determination

Postdoctoral researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany

• 'Social capital'
• Coordination games
• Beliefs and decision making
• Behavioral economics and institutions

 
Dr. Gabriele Chierchia

PostDoc at the , Department of Social Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany

• Neuroeconomics
• Strategic interactions
• Social closeness
• Social attitudes and beliefs

Dr. phil. Marisa Przyrembel

PostDoc at the , Department of Social Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany

Current areas of research:

• Influences of Motivation and Social Cognition on Decision Making
• Social Cognition
• Philosophy of Mind
• Effects of Mental Training on Subjective Experience
• (Neuro-)Phenomenological Approaches to Pre-reflective Subjective Experience

PhD candidate in Economics

Current areas of research:

• Experimental Economics

PhD candidate at the Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Current areas of research:

• The role of institutions, policies and settings in economic decision making