Newsletters 2019
03/12 - Colloquium by Andreea Popescu
29/11 - Seminar by David Gill
28/11 - Social Media Workshop
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CESS will host Social Media Workshop
Thursday, 5th December – from 9 AM to 6 PM |
This workshop assembles a very diverse and inter-disciplinary group of scholars using social media as an integral part of their research. Each of the workshop participants will be presenting work or work-in-progress/designs that build on the theme of social media and experimentation. The goal is to highlight very innovative experimental approaches that incorporate social media into the design of experimental interventions but also into measuring behavioural outcomes. |
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26/11 - Colloquium by Christian Zünd
19/11 - Colloquium by Florian S. Schaffner
12/11 - Colloquium by Pepper D. Culpepper
11/11 - Colloquium by Laura Gee
04/11 - Colloquium by Andrew Lewis
29/10 - Colloquium by Simon Finster
22/10 - Colloquium by Paola Solimena
16/10 - Colloquium by Jeff Gill
14/10 - Colloquium by Bertil Tungodden
08/10 - Michaelmas 2019
Dear all,
Welcome back to Michaelmas 2019. We have lots of great events lined up for you this term and beyond so get ready to do some experimental social science!
Seminars & Colloquia
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Seminar (joint with Oxford’s Dept. of Economics)
Bertil Tungodden
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15th October @ 12:45 PM |
“Fairness Across the World: Experimental Evidence” |
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Seminar
Jeff Gill
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17th October @ 3:30 PM |
“Models for Identifying Substantive Clusters and Fitted Subclusters in Social Science Data” |
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Colloquium
Paola Solimena
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23rd October @ 2:00 PM |
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Colloquium
Simon Finster
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30th October @ 2:00 PM |
“An Experimental Study of Strategic Bidding in First-Price Auctions for Differentiated Goods” |
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Colloquium
Andrew Lewis
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6th November @ 2:00 PM |
“Discrimination and Tolerance for Transgression in Candidate Evaluation” |
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Seminar (joint with Oxford’s Dept. of Economics)
Laura Gee
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11th November @ 2:30 PM |
“The Effect of Observation and Deception in Field Experiments: Evidence from a Two-sided Audit Study” |
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Colloquium
Pepper D. Culpepper
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13th November @ 2:00 PM |
“How the Public Responds to Media Representations of Bankers in the US and the UK” |
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Colloquium
Florian S. Schaffner
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20th November @ 2:00 PM |
“Affective Computing and Experimental Social Science“ |
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Colloquium
Christian Zünd
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27th November @ 2:00 PM |
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Seminar
David Gill
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2nd December @ 1:30 PM |
“Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication” |
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Seminar
Andreea Popescu
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4th December @ 2:00 PM |
“Contagion and Return Predictability in Asset Markets: A Lab Experiment” |
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We are very pleased to announce the workshop oTree: An Introduction to Programming Online Experiments for the Social Sciences to be held at Nuffield College 9th October 2019.oTree is a framework to run experiments both online and in the lab. The workshop is aimed at participants with no prior knowledge of oTree. After the workshop participants will be able to create single and multi-player experiments. The workshop will be hands on and include a variety of exercises which will allow participants to immediately apply the covered material. A very basic understanding of python is required to attend the workshop. For people without prior knowledge of python a brief introduction into python is offered on the day prior to the workshop (8th October, from 3pm to 6pm). Alternatively, a few hours of self-study will be sufficient to acquire the necessary knowledge.
The workshop is open to faculty graduate students, but spaces are limited. Those interested in participating in the workshop should send an email to jonas.frey.dphil2017@said.oxford.edu. In the email, please specify if you want to attend the workshop and the python session or only the workshop.
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Comparative Time-Sharing Experiments (CTSE)
We are very pleased to announce that we are in the process of planning the continuation of the Comparative Time-Sharing Experiments (CTSE). CTSE is intended to offer access to the four principal student and non-student online subject pools of the Centre of Experimental Social Sciences (CESS), Nuffield College located in the UK, Chile, India and China, to researchers free of charge. CTSE thus allows graduate students of the University of Oxford and CESS to conduct subsidised experiments in China, Chile, and India.Current graduate students wishing to participate should look out for a link to submit during the Michaelmas term.
Find more information about CTSE here: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/ctse/
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We are pleased to announce the Seventh International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) at the University of Lyon, Lyon, France, on 14-16 May 2020.
IMEBESS intends to bring together researchers in all areas of the social sciences who are interested in experimental methods. We believe that behavioural economics is increasingly informed by a very diverse range of research traditions. Hence, we are particularly interested in the participation of all social science disciplines with an interest in experimental and behavioural research, including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Read more here as the call for papers will be announced soon: http://imebess.org.
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17/06 - Seminar by Erik Mohlin & Colloquium by Rachel Bernhard
12/06 - Colloquium by Jiakun Zheng
07/06 - Colloquia: Eugen Dimant & Tanushree Goyal
27/05 - Colloquium by Andreas Wiedemann
14/05 - Colloquium by Francesco Salustri & Seminar by Donald Green
07/05 - Colloquium by Lonie Sebagh
01/05 - Seminar by Yonatan Lupu
29/04 - Colloquium by Ben Ansell & Seminar by Alexander Cappelen
23/04 - Seminar by Sevgi Yuksel
Seminar
Sevgi Yuksel
UC Santa Barbara
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Wednesday, 24th April @ 3:30 PM |
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“How do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment” |
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We report an experiment designed to measure how (and how well) subjects choose between biased sources of instrumentally valuable information. Subjects choose between two information sources with opposing biases in order to inform their guesses of a binary state. By varying the nature of the bias, we vary whether it is optimal to consult sources biased towards…. |
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18/03 - Colloquium by Leah Rosenzweig
11/03 - Colloquium by Joe Kendall
04/03 - Colloquium by Saurabh Pant & Seminar by Jan-Emmanuel de Neve & Clément Imbert
25/02 - Colloquium by Scott A. Tyson & Seminar by Karine Van Der Straeten
18/02 - Colloquium by Jan Sauermann
11/02 - Colloquium by Dominik Duell & Seminar by Roberto Weber
05/02 - Seminar by Alexei Zakharov
29/01 - Seminar by Dorothea Kubler
21/01 - Colloquium by Stephen Nei
18/01 - Hilary 2019
Dear all,
Welcome back to Hilary 2019. We have lots of great events lined up for you this term so buckle up and get ready to do some experimental social science!
Colloquia & Seminars
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Colloquium
Stephen Nei
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22nd January @ 1:30 PM |
“Accounting for Selection in Social Learning.” |
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Seminar
Dorothea Kübler
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30th January @ 3:30 PM |
“How Lotteries in School Choice Help to Level the Playing Field.” |
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Colloquium
Dominik Duell
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12th February @ 1:30 PM |
“The World on One Island: Formation and Deployment of Group Membership in Multi-Identity Societies.” |
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Seminar
Roberto Weber
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13th February @ 3:30 PM |
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Colloquium
Jan Sauermann
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19th February @ 1:30 PM |
“The Effects of Communication on the Occurrence of the Tyranny of the Majority under Voting by Veto.” |
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Colloquium
Scott A. Tyson
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26th February @ 1:30 PM |
“Sowing the Seeds: A Theory of Indoctrination and Counterinsurgency” |
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Seminar
Karine Van Der Straeten
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27th February @ 3:30 PM |
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Colloquium
Saurabh Pant
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5th March @ 1:30 PM |
“Winning Hearts and Minds in Civil Wars: Governance, Leadership Change, and Support for Violence in Iraq.” |
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Seminar
Jan-Emmanuel de Neve
Clément Imbert
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6th March @ 3:30 PM |
“How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Countrywide Experiments in Belgium.” |
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Colloquium
Leah Rosenzweig
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19th March @ 1:30 PM |
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Alexei Zakharov
Associate Professor of Economics, National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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Karine Van Der Straeten
Senior researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research, Toulouse School of Economics |
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Leah Rosenzweig
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) |
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Stephen Nei
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at the University of Oxford |
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Vera Troeger
Professor of Quantitative Political Economy, University of Warwick |
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New Affiliated Graduate Students
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Mats Ahrenshop
Mphil student, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford |
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Roberto Cerina
PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford |
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Constantin Reinprecht
PhD student, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford |
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Tom Robinson
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford |
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Felipe Torres
PhD student, Political Economy, Kings College London |
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James Walsh
PhD student, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford |
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We are pleased to announce the Sixth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) at the Utrecht University, Utrecht city in Netherlands, on May 2-4 2019.
IMEBESS intends to bring together researchers in all areas of the social sciences who are interested in experimental methods. We believe that behavioural economics is increasingly informed by a very diverse range of research traditions. Hence, we are particularly interested in the participation of all social science disciplines with an interest in experimental and behavioural research, including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Read more about IMEBESS conference by clicking in the button below.
IMEBESS 2019 website
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Participate in CESS experiments
Are you interested in making money while contributing to the research of the University of Oxford? Then read on.
The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) is an inter-disciplinary research Centre at Oxford University engaged in laboratory experimental work in the social sciences. The research tools used in the Centre are laboratory and online experiments in which paid human subjects engage in decision-making tasks. For our online experiments, participants are invited to visit a webpage and answer some surveys, while for our laboratory experiments, participants come to our laboratory.
Click in the button below to sign up for laboratory and online experiments:
Participate in experiments
Registration is not binding, and you can always opt out of the experiments you have been invited to participate in.
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