JEDI-lab

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We conduct research on intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decision-making.

The aim of our research is to understand everyday decision-making and its underlying processes, both at the individual level and at societal level. In particular, we investigate the interplay between intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decision-making. We are interested in questions such as:

  • When and why are individuals willing to forsake personal gain in order to help others?
  • When and why do individuals make risky economic decisions?
  • How do people assign value to payoffs at different points in time?
  • How can the decision-making process be improved so that people make better decisions?

We address these questions using a variety of experimental methods, ranging from behavioral studies in the lab and in the field to more novel methods from behavioral neuroscience, including neuroimaging (fMRI), skin conductance, eye-tracking, and genetic data.

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Contact

Contact Us

E-mail: jedilab@iei.liu.se

Visiting Address

A Building, entrance 19, level 3
Campus Valla
Linköping University
Sweden

Postal Adress

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)
Linköping University
581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Publications

2024

Kenny Skagerlund, Mikael Skagenholt, Ulf Träff (2024) Mathematics anxiety and number processing: The link between executive functions, cardinality, and ordinality Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Continue to DOI
Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, Samantha J. Grayson, Yash Patel, Danielle Goldwert, Yifei Pei, Alek Chakroff, Ekaterina Pronizius, Karlijn L. van den Broek, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara Constantino, Michael J. Morais, Philipp Schumann, Steve Rathje, Ke Fang, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Mark Alfano, Andy J. Alvarado-Yepez, Angélica Andersen, Frederik Anseel, Matthew A. J. Apps, Chillar Asadli, Fonda Jane Awuor, Flavio Azevedo, Piero Basaglia, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Sebastian Berger, Paul Bertin, Michał Białek, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michelle Blaya-Burgo, Daniëlle N. M. Bleize, Simen Bø, Lea Boecker, Paulo S. Boggio, Sylvie Borau, Björn Bos, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Markus Brauer, Cameron Brick, Tymofii Brik, Roman Briker, Tobias Brosch, Ondrej Buchel, Daniel Buonauro, Radhika Butalia, Héctor Carvacho, Lina Koppel, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2024) Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries Science Advances, Vol. 10 Continue to DOI

2023

Hajdi Moche, Arvid Erlandsson, Stephan Dickert, Daniel Västfjäll (2023) The potential and pitfalls of unit asking in reducing scope insensitivity Judgment and decision making, Vol. 18, Article e28 Continue to DOI
Gustav Tinghög, Kinga Barrafrem, Daniel Västfjäll (2023) The Good, Bad and Ugly of information (un)processing; Homo Economicus, Homo Heuristicus and Homo Ignorans Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 94, Article 102574 Continue to DOI
Gustav Tinghög, Lina Koppel, Daniel Västfjäll (2023) Dual-process theory is Barbapapa Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 46, Article e144 Continue to DOI
Mikael Skagenholt, Ian M. Lyons, Kenny Skagerlund, Ulf Träff (2023) Connectome-based predictive modeling indicates dissociable neurocognitive mechanisms for numerical order and magnitude processing in children Neuropsychologia, Vol. 184, Article 108563 Continue to DOI
Allegra Maguire, Emil Persson, Gustav Tinghög (2023) Opportunity cost neglect: a meta-analysis Journal of the Economic Science Association (JESA), Vol. 9, p. 176-192 Continue to DOI

2022

Emil Persson, Arvid Erlandsson, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghog (2022) The prominence effect in health-care priority setting Judgment and decision making, Vol. 17, p. 1379-1391 Continue to DOI
Kajsa Hansson, Emil Persson, Gustav Tinghög (2022) Voting and (im)moral behavior Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, Article 22643 Continue to DOI
Gustav Tinghög, Liam Strand (2022) Public Attitudes Toward Priority Setting Principles in Health Care During COVID-19 Frontiers in Health Services, Vol. 2 Continue to DOI
Tomislav Pavlović, Flavio Azevedo, Koustav De, Julián C Riaño-Moreno, Marina Maglić, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Patricio Andreas Donnelly-Kehoe, César Payán-Gómez, Guanxiong Huang, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Michèle D Birtel, Philipp Schönegger, Valerio Capraro, Hernando Santamaría-García, Meltem Yucel, Agustin Ibanez, Steve Rathje, Erik Wetter, Dragan Stanojević, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Eugenia Hesse, Christian T Elbaek, Renata Franc, Zoran Pavlović, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Aleksandra Cichocka, Michele Gelfand, Mark Alfano, Robert M Ross, Hallgeir Sjåstad, John B Nezlek, Aleksandra Cislak, Patricia Lockwood, Koen Abts, Elena Agadullina, David M Amodio, Matthew A J Apps, John Jamir Benzon Aruta, Sahba Besharati, Alexander Bor, Becky Choma, William Cunningham, Waqas Ejaz, Harry Farmer, Andrej Findor, Biljana Gjoneska, Estrella Gualda, Toan L D Huynh, Mostak Ahamed Imran, Jacob Israelashvili, Gustav Tinghög (2022) Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning PNAS Nexus Continue to DOI
William Hagman, Gustav Tinghög, Stephan Dickert, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll (2022) Motivated Down-Regulation of Emotion and Compassion Collapse Revisited Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, Article 801150 Continue to DOI
Mikael Skagenholt, Kenny Skagerlund, Ulf Andersson (2022) Neurodevelopmental differences in task-evoked number network connectivity: Comparing symbolic and nonsymbolic number discrimination in children and adults Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 58, Article 101159 Continue to DOI
Therese Lind, Arvid Erlandsson, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2022) Motivated reasoning when assessing the effects of refugee intake Behavioural Public Policy, Vol. 6, p. 213-236 Continue to DOI

2021

Artur Nilsson, Arvid Erlandsson, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2021) Who are the opponents of nudging? Insights from moral foundations theory Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, Vol. 5, p. 64-97 Continue to DOI
Arvid Erlandsson (2021) Smittminskningsprosocialitet: Hjälpandets psykologi i en pandemi Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Vol. 123, p. 189-210
Kinga Barrafrem, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2021) The arithmetic of outcome editing in financial and social domains Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 86, Article 102408 Continue to DOI
Gustav Tinghög (2021) Alternativkostnadens psykologi: känslor och kostnadseffektivitet vid beslut i offentlig sektor
Kinga Barrafrem, Gustav Tinghög, Daniel Västfjäll (2021) Trust in the government increases financial well-being and general well-being during COVID-19 Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol. 31, Article 100514 Continue to DOI

2020

Arvid Erlandsson, Mattias Wingren, Per A Andersson (2020) Type and amount of help as predictors for impression of helpers PLOS ONE, Vol. 15, Article e0243808 Continue to DOI

Podcast

Grey picture with the text Beslutsbotanikerna

Beslutsbotanikerna

The podcast, Beslutsbotanikerna (translation: The Decision Botanists), professors Gustav Tinghög and Daniel Västfjäll discuss the science of decision making. Each episode centers around one of the models of decision making, starting with Homo Economicus. The episodes are mainly in Swedish, but not all.

>> Listen to Beslutsbotanikerna at Soundcloud

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News

Portrait of professor Gustav Tinghög.

Researchers overestimate their own honesty

The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other fields. This is shown in a new study at Linköping University.

Portrait of professor Gustav Tinghög.

Emotions often defeat sense in healthcare priority setting

Emotions tend to get the upper hand in healthcare decisions. This is shown in a Linköping University study. The results may explain why effective use of healthcare resources is so slow in the making, according to the researchers.

Man looking sideways through venetian blind.

They fall more easily for conspiracy theories

People who primarily use their own gut feeling to determine what is true and false are more likely to believe conspiracy theories. That is the conclusion of researchers at Linköping University.

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