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Leverhulme Social Norms and Applications Seminars 2025/2026.
Autumn Term
30 September: Aidas Masiliūnas (University of Sheffield) "Asymmetry facilitates wealth creation in a dynamic investment game."
7 October: Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez (Universidad de Málaga) "Intolerance and polarization in popularity networks."
14 October: Maria Cubel (City University of London) "Against the standard."
21 October: François Lafond (University of Oxford) "Forecasting Macroeconomic Dynamics using a Calibrated Data-Driven Agent-based model."
28 October: Petros Sekeris (Toulouse Business School) "Learning and Overconfidence in Elimination Contests (with L. Santos-Pinto)."
11 November: Anna Rita Bennato (Loughborough University) "Local Energy for Sale: Decision Making on Trading Platforms."
18 November: Adarsh Prabhakaran (Royal Holloway) "An Overview of Large Language Models, Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour."
25 November: Michalis Drouvelis (University of Birmingham) "Luck-based versus merit-based income shifts fairness perceptions and promotes cooperation in a public goods game."
2 December: Ashley Perry (New York University Abu Dhabi) "Performance-Feedback."
9 December: Marlene Batzke (Royal Holloway) "Norm Change Under Changing Inequality."
Spring Term
20 January:
27 January: Ghislain Junior Sidie (Royal Holloway)
3 February: Roberto Rozzi (Royal Holloway)
10 February: Polina Detkova (Royal Holloway)
17 February: Paolo Turrini (University of Warwick)
3 March:
10 March: Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)
17 March: Adrian Haret (Royal Holloway)
24 March: Aron Szekely (University College London)
31 March: Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics)
Past Seminars
2024/2025
Autumn Term
1 October 2024: David Levine, Agnieszka Mensfelt and Vince Trencsenyi (Royal Holloway)
8 October 2024: Francesco Feri (Royal Holloway) “Ignorance is bliss: A game of regret”
22 October 2024: Songyu He (Royal Holloway) "Recent Experimental Results on Decision-Making"
12 November 2024: Keaton Ellis (The Simons Institute, Berkeley) “The Value of "Who" and "What" When Predicting Choice Under Risk”
19 November 2024: Vince Trencsenyi (Royal Holloway) "Hypergames: from theory to practice"
26 November 2024: Ryan McKay (Royal Holloway) “Sleights of Mind”
3 December 2024: Bjoern Hartig (Royal Holloway)
10 December 2024: David Levine (Royal Holloway) "Behavioral mechanism design"
Spring Term
28 January 2025: Andrew Hunter (Royal Holloway) “Motivated reasoning and the effects of peer observation on belief polarisation”
4 February 2025: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado (Royal Holloway) "Book review of 'The Weirdest People in the World' by Joseph Heinrich"
11 February 2025: Enrique Fatas (European University in Valencia) "Preventing the exclusion of migrants from public services. A behavioral intervention in Ecuador"
18 February 2025: Joel Leibo (King's College London) "A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence"
4 March 2025: Enya Turrini (Royal Holloway) "Distasteful or repugnant? How social context and money shape moral judgment"
11 March 2025: Ed Hopkins (King’s College London) “The Evolution of a conscience in repeated games under limited self-control"
18 March 2025: Amalia Alvarez Benjumea (Spanish National Research Council) "Social norms and the expression of online hate"
25 March 2025: Charles Efferson (University of Lausanne) "Social tipping our way - or maybe not - to some kind of future"
1 April 2025: Yali Du (King's College London) "Towards Cooperative AI"
2023/2024
Autumn Term
10 October 2023: David Levine (Royal Holloway) “Social Preferences”
17 October 2023: Kostas Stathis (Royal Holloway) “Artificial Agents”
24 October 2023: Ryan McKay (Royal Holloway) “Social Norms”
07 November 2023: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado (Royal Holloway) “Social preferences Fundamental characteristics and Economic Consequences Part I”
14 November 2023: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado (Royal Holloway) “Social preferences Fundamental characteristics and Economic Consequences Part II”
21 November 2023: Bjoern Hartig (Royal Holloway) “The Signal and the Noise” Slides
28 November 2023: Klarizze Anne Puzon (Royal Holloway) “The Global Preferences Survey”
5 December 2023: Evan Piermont (Royal Holloway) “Language as a Social Norm”
Spring Term
16 January 2024: Michael Mandler (Royal Holloway) “Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History”
23 January 2024: Doruk Cetemen (Royal Holloway) “The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization” Slides
06 February 2024: Agnieszka Mensfelt (Royal Holloway) “Agent-Based Modelling in Economics: an Overview and Future Prospects”
27 February 2024: Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) “Influence in Social Networks”
05 March 2024: Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po) “Science under Inquisition: the allocation of talent in early modern Europe”
12 March 2024: Philip Neary (Royal Holloway) “Modelling coordination problems in economics”
19 March 2024: Harry Pei (Northwestern University) “Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records”
26 March 2024: Paolo Barucca (University College London) “Multi-agent systems in economics and finance: challenges and opportunities from governments to individuals”
