A new paper entitled ‘The Role of Numeracy in Judgment and Decision Making: The Replication of Eleven Effects Across Various Numeracy Scales’ has been published in the Collabra journal https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/11/1/128514/205431/The-Role-of-Numeracy-in-Judgment-and-Decision
A new article entitled Visualizing Numbers: Investigating the Effect of Presentation Format on Emotional Responses and Performance in Lottery Tasks has been published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1037/cep0000330
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 is more than just solving tasks: Using indicators of subjective experience to measure insight and develop a new psychometric tool.”.
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 collective title “The importance of individual differences in cognitive abilities and dispositions for decision-making and (ir)rational thinking.”
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 been published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1207364
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 the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2340
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 Imagination, Cognition and Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177
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 Faculty of Psychology in Wrocław, SWPS University. For more information, please check: https://www.aspe.edu.pl/en https://swps.pl/my-uniwersytet/aktualnosci/konferencje-i-seminaria/33277-xvi-konferencja-psychologia-ekonomiczna https://aspe.edu.pl/konferencje/konferencja-2023/
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 the best empirical project at the Faculty of Psychology in Wroclaw,
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 academic year 2021/2022 at the SWPS University. The award was given for the works titled “Czy agresja wśród młodzieży ma związek ze stopniem inteligencji społecznej oraz myślenia refleksyjnego?”
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 student of prof. Tomasz Zaleśkiewicz, won the first place for the work entitled “Subiektywne definiowanie pojęcia racjonalności w relacji do wybranych aspektów podejmowania decyzji”. Furthermore, Ms Katrzyna Zdybel,…
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 Agata Sobków, Angelika Olszewska and Miroslav Sirota has been published in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2297
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 Sobków, Jakub Traczyk, Dunia Garrido, Rocio Garcia Retamero has been published in Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13946
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 by the SWPS University. Name of project: Polish Adaptation of the Online Test Anxiety Inventory (OTAI-PL)
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 has been published in Frontiers in Psychology (IF: 2.067) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582720/full
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 Financial Decision Making. In T. Zaleskiewicz & J. Traczyk (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Financial Decision Making. Springer International Publishing.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45500-2 2. Zaleskiewicz, T., & Traczyk, J. (2020). Emotions and Financial Decision…
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 decisions under risk and uncertainty.” The successful candidate will work on a PhD thesis (in the field of judgment and decision making). The tasks will include developing ideas and…
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 for publication in Intelligence (IF: 2.785).
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 Bernady, and Jakub Traczyk (CRIDM) has been accepted for publication in Applied Psychology: An International Review (IF: 3.265).
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 found at (in Polish): https://www.swps.pl/uczelnia/oferty-pracy/aktualne/130-wroclaw/19991-stypendysta-ka-w-projekcie-badawczym-2019-06-30?fbclid=IwAR3Et-Ac3LEM0fNQxbHRnR-Q6Jv1JPx78eO4O7FLDWzLcmxR2O_PA4mH8W4
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; SONATA competition) https://www.ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/2019-05-15-opus16-preludium16-sonata14
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) has been published in Medical Decision Making (IF: 3.012). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0272989X19844744