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Can a Single Model Explain Different Functions of the Human Brain?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2018), 8 mins
The human brain has many functions; for instance, it allows people to focus on particular objects and ignore others, or to remember events in the past. TATJANA TCHUMATCHENKO uses mathematical equations in order to understand how our brain achieves this. Previous research in this area has developed models that expl...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2018), 8 mins
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Can Moral Suasion Effectively Induce Compliance with the Law?
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking), 9 mins
In the large-scale natural field experiment presented in this video different treatments to induce compliance with the law were tested: Potential evaders of TV license fees in Austria received different mailings – one presenting the prospects of financial and legal consequences, one appealing to morals and one c...
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking), 9 mins
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Do Exclusivity Rebates Cause Psychological Switching Costs in Consumers?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 13 mins
Firms, be it coffee shops or airlines, often try to bind customers with exclusivity rebates rewarding loyalty. The lab experiment presented in this video reveals that these programs are “sticky”: customers stay in those programs longer than would be “rational”. As ALEXANDER MORELL explains, customers often...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 13 mins
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Do People Tend to Behave Dishonestly in Groups?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
In recent years, immoral behavior in firms as well as scandals in the banking sector and non-profit organizations have been widely discussed. Often it is groups rather than individuals who are responsible for these immoral acts. This video presents an economic experiment that investigates whether groups are more l...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 12 mins
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The Followership Effect: charismatic oratory, hypnosis and altered states of consciousness
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produced by University of Surrey (Surrey, England: University of Surrey, 2015), 3 mins
This thesis examines how political leaders use many of the same techniques as stage hypnotists - and if this is the case, can it be optimized?
produced by University of Surrey (Surrey, England: University of Surrey, 2015), 3 mins
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How are Purchasing Decisions Impacted by the Compromise Effect?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 11 mins
The compromise effect can be observed in the consumer’s tendency to avoid extreme ends of the available range when making purchasing decisions. In this video, MARKO SARSTEDT investigates the origins of the compromise effect. Describing an experiment that interrogates the effects of a lowering of cognitive capabi...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 11 mins
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How Do Aesthetic Experiences Function in the Brain?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
Aesthetic experiences make a vital contribution to our lives. In this video, focusing on responses to artwork, architecture and natural landscapes, EDWARD VESSEL explores how aesthetic experiences function in the brain. Employing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Vessel attempts to correlate subjects€..
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
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How Does Empathy Affect Trade-Offs People Are Willing to Make Between Their Own and Other’s Income?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The research presented in this video focuses on the question how empathy affects economic choice-behavior. In order to refine existing models of decision-making, two different concepts of empathy “imagine-self” and “imagine-other”, the latter requiring a higher level of sophistication, were included in gam...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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How Does Making Music Change the Brain Depending on the Starting Age?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 6 mins
Only in the last decades research found that experiences change the human brain. The research presented in this video deals with the question how making music reorganizes neural pathways in the brain. In a comparative study of brains of pianists who started playing early in life with those of pianists who started...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 6 mins
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How Reproducible Are Results from Empirical Psychology?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
To maintain confidence in scientific findings, the project presented in this video by SUSANN FIEDLER examines the reproducibility rate of empirical results in psychology: Studies published in three major psychological journals in 2008 are replicated by other researchers in collaboration with the original authors....
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
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