The Center for Research on Improving Decision Making (CRIDM) is affiliated to the Faculty of Psychology in Wroclaw at the SWPS University (Poland). The primary aim of CRIDM is to better understand basic psychological mechanisms underlying decision making. We are particularly focused on the role of emotional and cognitive factors (e.g., related to numerical cognition) in the decision-making process.
Importantly, we aim at applying the results of these basic research in the development and validation of methods (such as visual aids or cognitive training) that may help people make better decisions not only in laboratory settings but also in everyday life.
A new article entitled Visualizing Numbers: Investigating the Effect of Presentation Format on Emotional Responses and Performance in Lottery Tasks has been published in New article…
A new article entitled Recurring Suboptimal Choices Result in Superior Decision Making has been published in Decision. doi.org/10.1037/dec0000240
We are pleased to announce that Angelika Olszewska has successfully defended her doctoral thesis and has been awarded a PhD degree. The thesis is titled “Insight…
We are pleased to announce that PhD Agata Sobków obtained a post-doctoral degree. The basis for habilitation procedure was a series of 10 publications under the…
A new article entitled Polish adaptation of the Online Test Anxiety Inventory (OTAI-PL) has been published in Kultura i Edukacja https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2023
A new article entitled Visualizing risky situations induces a stronger neural response in brain areas associated with mental imagery and emotions than visualizing non-risky situations has…
A new article entitled Imagining risk taking: The valence of mental imagery is related to the declared willingness to take risky actions has been published in…
A new article entitled Polish Validation of the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS): Psychometric Characteristics and Relationships with Risk Propensity has been published in the…
A new article entitled Decision making and mental imagery: A conceptual synthesis and new research directions has been published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080
A new article entitled Conditionality of adaptiveness: Investigating the relationship between numeracy and adaptive behavior has been published in the Journal of Economic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/
We are pleased to announce that the CRIDM is organizing the XVI edition of the ASPE conference, which will take place on May 18-19, 2023 at the…
We’re pleased to inform, that our former intern students (Mr. Jakub Michalik and Mr. Łukasz Sumliński) won ex aequo the first prize in the competition for…
Ms. Barbara Walas, a student of Agata Sobków Ph.D., won first place for the best master’s thesis at the Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław in the…
Students cooperating with the CRIDM center were awarded multiple honors in the Szare Komórki competition organized by the Akademickie Stowarzyszenie Psychologii Ekonomicznej (ASPE). Mr. Paweł Schoepp,…
A new article entitled The factor structure of cognitive reflection, numeracy, and fluid intelligence: The evidence from the Polish adaptation of the Verbal CRT written by…
A new article entitled Measuring feeling about choices and risk: The Berlin Emotional Responses to Risk Instrument (BERRI) written by Dafina Petrova, Edward T. Cokely, Agata…
The team of students participating in the scientific module under the patronage of CRIDM took second place in the competition for the best empirical project organized…
At the special invitation of our Center, Dr. Dafina Petrova and Dr. Miroslav Sirota gave talks about measuring emotional responses to risk and Open Science.
A paper entitled “Worry, Risk Perception, and Controllability Predict Intentions Toward COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors” by Agata Sobkow, Tomasz Zaleskiewicz, Dafina Petrova, Rocio Garcia-Retamero and Jakub Traczyk…
We are pleased to inform that Agata Sobkow is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
We have published two chapters in a new book “Psychological Perspectives on Financial Decision Making”: 1. Sobkow, A., Garrido, D., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2020). Psychological Perspectives on…
We are seeking a PhD candidate (4 years, 40h/week) for the project: “Is recurring irrationality adaptively rational? The role of numeracy and adaptive strategy selection in…
A paper entitled “Multiple numeric competencies predict decision outcomes beyond fluid intelligence and cognitive reflection” by Agata Sobkow, Angelika Olszewska, and Jakub Traczyk has been accepted…
A paper entitled “Entrepreneurial Risk Taking is Related to Mental Imagery: A Fresh Look at the Old Issue of Entrepreneurship and Risk” by Tomasz Zaleskiewicz, Adriana…
We’re looking for talented MA/PhD student for a scholarship in the project “The role of multiple numeric competencies in improving decision making.” More details can be…
Agata Sobkow from CRIDM was awarded a new research grant entitled “The role of multiple numeric competencies in improving decision making.” (the National Science Center, Poland;…
An article entitled “Associations between Case Fatality Rates and Self-reported Fear of Neoplasms and Circulatory Diseases” by Kamil Fulawka, Dominik Lenda (CRIDM), and Jakub Traczyk (CRIDM)…