Founded in 2018, Journal Club Barcelona involves faculty and PhD students from Pompeu Fabra, IESE and ESADE getting together once a week at a bar in Barcelona to discuss a behavioral science paper.
Methodology in Social Science, Judgment & Decision Making
Positivity bias and self-other judgments
Psychology and accuracy of forecasting
Psychology of data-driven decisions
Improving decision making
Judgement and decision-making; choice overload, nudging, neuro
Happiness, emotions, and decision making
Judgment & Decision Making; Management, Ethics, and Heuristics
Consumer behavior
Consumer behavior
Management and Organisation Studies | Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Individual and group decision making
Consumer decision making
Papers we have assigned:
#25 – September 4th , 2019
Sellier, A. L., Scopelliti, I., & Morewedge, C. K. (2019). Debiasing Training Improves Decision Making in the Field. Psychological science (.pdf)
#24 – July 31st , 2019
Johnson DJ, Tress T, Burkel N, Taylor C, & Cesario J (2019) Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings, PNAS (.pdf)
#23 – July 11th , 2019
Cohn, A., Maréchal, M. A., Tannenbaum, D., & Zünd, C. L. (2019). “Civic honesty around the globe.” Science, Science (.pdf)
#22 – June 20th , 2019
Vuletich, Heidi A., and B. Keith Payne. (2019) “Stability and Change in Implicit Bias.” Psychological Science (.pdf)
#21 – June 13th , 2019
Carl, Noah. (2015)”Cognitive ability and political beliefs in the United States.” Personality and Individual Differences 83 : 245-248 (.pdf)
Carl, Noah (2016) “Net opposition to immigrants of different nationalities correlates strongly with their arrest rates in the UK.” Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science (.pdf).
#20 – May 30th , 2019
Hsiang, Esther Y., et al. “Association of Primary Care Clinic Appointment Time With Clinician Ordering and Patient Completion of Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening.” JAMA Network Open 2.5 (2019) (.pdf) e193403-e193403.
#19 – May 16th , 2019
Bridge, et al, . (2019). Smith, Stephanie M., and Ian Krajbich. “Gaze amplifies value in decision making.” Psychological science 30(1) (2019): 116-128 (.pdf)
#18 – May 9th , 2019
Bridge, et al, . (2019). Association Between the Release of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Suicide Rates in the United States: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis . Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (.pdf)
#17 – May 2nd , 2019
Kristal, A. C., O’Brien, E., & Caruso, E. M. (2019). Yesterday’s News: A Temporal Discontinuity in the Sting of Inferiority. Psychological science (.pdf)
#16 – April 25th , 2019
Grinberg, N., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lazer, D. (2019). Fake news on twitter during the 2016 US Presidential election. Science, 363(6425), 374-378. (.pdf)
#15 – April 11th , 2019
Dana, J., Atanasov, P., Tetlock, P., & Mellers, B. (2019). Are markets more accurate than polls? The surprising informational value of “just asking”. Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2019, pp. 135–147 (.pdf)
#14 – April 2nd, 2019
Stavrova (2019) Having a Happy Spouse Is Associated With Lowered Risk of Mortality, Psychological Science (.pdf)
#13 – March 26th, 2019
Mas & Pallais (2019). Labor Supply and the Value of Non-Work Time: Experimental Estimates from the Field, American Economic Review: Insights (.pdf)
#12 – March 19th, 2019
Dorison, C. A., Minson, J. A., & Rogers, T. (2019). Selective exposure partly relies on faulty affective forecasts. Cognition (.pdf – supplement: .htm)
#11 – March 12th, 2019
Chang, E. H., Milkman, K. L., Chugh, D., & Akinola, M. (2019). Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition. Academy of Management Journal, 62(1), 144-171 (.pdf)
#10 – March 5th, 2019
Evangelidis, I., & van Osselaer, S. M. (2019). Interattribute evaluation theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (.pdf)
#09 – February 26th, 2019
Orhun, A. Y., & Palazzolo, M. (2019). Frugality is hard to afford. Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 56(1) 1-17 (.pdf)
#08 – February 12th, 2019
Fernbach, P. M., Light, N., Scott, S. E., Inbar, Y., & Rozin, P. (2019). Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most. Nature Human Behaviour, V3,251–256
#07 – February 5th, 2019
Layton, T. J., Barnett, M. L., Hicks, T. R., & Jena, A. B. (2018). Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder and Month of School Enrollment. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(22), 2122-2130 (pdf)
#06 – January 28th , 2019
Lewis, J., Gaertig, C., & Simmons, J. P. (2019). Extremeness aversion is a cause of anchoring. Psychological science, 30(2), 159-173.
#05 – November 23rd, 2018
Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schulz, J., Henrich, J., Shariff, A., … & Rahwan, I. (2018). “The moral machine experiment.” Nature, 563(7729) (.htm)
#04 – November 23rd, 2018
Boothby, E. J., Cooney, G., Sandstrom, G. M., & Clark, M. S. (2018). The liking gap in conversations: do people like us more than we think?. Psychological science, 29(11), 1742-1756. (.pdf)
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