CDR member Joshua Weller delivered the invited Khodadad Lecture at the University of Cincinnati Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience (https://med.uc.edu/). This prestigious, endowed lectureship is held annually to present state-of-the-art research to faculty (psychiatrists and psychologists) and trainees (residents and medical students). Dr. Weller’s lecture, titled “The Psychology of Dispositional Greed,” explored...
CDR member Simon van Baal has received an AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant Funding (https://afsg.org/funding/). Together with his colleagues, Philip Newall and Lukasz Walasek, Simon will examine how scores on the main measurement tool for gambling harm (Problem Gambling Severity Index) relate to real-life experiences of gambling. At the moment, an arbitrary cut-off is used to...
Abstract We study attention utility, the hedonic pleasure or pain derived purely from paying attention to information, which differs from the news utility that arises from gaining new information. The main, field, study examines brokerage account login data to show that investors pay disproportionate attention to already-known positive information on their stocks. Through its effect...
A Massive Congratulation to Richard Hodgett who has been listed in the Poets&Quants 2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors, along with Professors from other top schools including MIT, Harvard, INSEAD, LBS, Wharton etc. Richard has been with CDR since 2014, making a great contribution to our research and teaching. See the full article here: Poets&Quants |...
Barriers to Sustainable Manufacturing in the Chemical Industry: A Qualitative Study David Palma and Richard Hodgett from the Centre for Decision Research have a new paper published in Sustainability. Abstract The manufacturing industry accounts for at least 20% of global CO2 emissions, making it a key player against global warming. But despite significant progress, the industry still faces barriers...
Gülbanu Kaptan, Romain Crastes dit Sourd and colleagues have a new article that has been published in the Business Strategy and the Environment Journal: Restoring Food System Resilience in a Turbulent World: Supply Chain Actors' Shared Responsibility Summary text: The research highlights power dynamics within the fresh produce supply chain and clarifies governance responsibilities for transforming...
A new briefing note from members of the Centre for Decision Research and Sustainability Research Institute explores the factors that predict disaster risk perception and preparedness around the world, highlighting key challenges for weather warning communication and next steps to address them. Andrea Taylor discusses some of the key findings in a blog post for...
Abstract Understanding food purchasing behaviours is complex because people make both choices among goods and volumes of those goods that they choose. We use the novel Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value (MDCEV) model, capable of handling both aspects of behaviour, on real-world food shopping behaviour data from a clinical trial. We compared the impact of providing...
Abstract Dispositional greed is characterized as the insatiable desire for more. Although greed may be a driving force for wealth accumulation, it can also relate to increased financial difficulties and risk-taking. Across two studies in different countries, The Netherlands (Study 1, N = 1,118) and England, Study 2, N = 4,855), we tested the degree...
The British Academy has awarded Irene Mussio a Small Research Grant for her project Collaborative Solutions to Water Shortages in the Mekong River Delta, which involves a series of economic experiments with farmers, in partnership with Dr. Kiet Nguyen from University of Economics at Ho Chi Minh City. This is an extension of her prior...
