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The project instruments to promote climate-friendly diets analyses the potential of behavioral instruments to reduce meat consumption and thus the related greenhouse gas emissions.

We study economic, psychological and neurological foundations of economic decisions under uncertainty and excessive risk-taking. To do so, we conduct three studies, which include economic experiments, psychophysiological measurements and brain...

This study contributes to the public debate on gender quotas and the literature on gender and risk taking by analysing how the level of risk taking within a group is influenced by its gender composition. In particular we look at the shift of risk...

Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage are controversial options for addressing climate change. This study compares public perception in Germany of three specific measures: solar radiation management (SRM) via stratospheric sulphate...

Prenatal androgens have organizational effects on brain and endocrine system development, which may have a partial impact on economic decisions. Numerous studies investigated the relationship between prenatal testosterone and financial risk taking,...

Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent experimental evidence however sho

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings’ sex composition affect risk, time and social...

While reports state that consumers are increasingly willing to consume more sustainably, no study has considered how the activation of very basic human

It has been observed that in a variety of tasks, losses have a larger impact on behavior than do gains of equal size. This phenomenon is referred to as loss aversion. It is thought that the negativity bias in behavior is reflected in and potentially...