The Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) regularly awards research grants to researchers in economic engineering, social cognition and other fields related to C-SEB. Across the seven funding lines of Bridging grants, Seedcorn grants, Junior Start-up grants, Gender Research grant, Student grants and the Visitor and International Fellowship Program, C-SEB received 42 proposal, of which 25 proposals were selected for funding. In this funding round, C-SEB will provide support for the following projects:

Bridging Grants:
Wilhelm Hofmann, Projekt: “Antecedents and Consequences of Solidary Giving”

Seedcorn Grants:
Justin Buffat, Projekt: “Corruption and cooperation in a (de-)centralized society”
Peter Cramton, Projekt: “Exchange Tournaments. Prototype Testing of Financial Market Designs”
Adam Hahn, Projekt: “The Psychology of Self-insight”
Felix Kölle, Projekt: “Governance and Group Conflict”

Junior Start-up Grants:
Matthew Baldwin, Projekt: “Exploring the Influence of Political Orientation and Temporal Focus on Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors”
Amir Ghoniem, Projekt: “How do people value impulses? Investigating antecedents and consequences of preferences towards impulses”
Alex Koch, Projekt: “Do people prefer conservatives (progressives) for joint exploitation (exploration)?”
Andreas Pollak, Projekt: “Tacit Collusion or Edgeworth Cycles: A Laboratory Experiment”
Sarah Rom, Projekt: “The Vices and Virtues of Gossip in Everyday Life”
Jan Sauermann, Projekt: “Why is majority rule stable?”
Anne Schielke, Projekt: “Choice bracketing and social costs”
Olga Stavrova, Projekt: “Meaning in life and social behavior”
Anna Untertrifaller, Projekt: “Lying within a team”
Michael Zürn, Projekt: “Do people prefer more risky options if the stakes are abstract?”

Gender Research Grants:
Juliane Burghardt, Projekt: “Why assertive women stay unrecognized: Spontaneous evaluations of men and women on management relevant dimensions”
Sabine Hügelschäfer, Projekt: “Evaluation Bias & Women’s Quota”
Lea Petters, Projekt: “Side-Effects of Affirmative Action”

Student Grants:
Anja Bodenschatz, Projekt: “Does the Four-Eyes-Principle hinder bribery? – An Experimental Study”
Julia Karwatzky, Projekt: “Leading by information- the effect of feedback on team performance”
Nicolas Noack, Projekt: “Power and the Sunk Cost Fallacy – How Feelings of Power affect the Escalation of Commitment”
Maivand Sarin, Projekt: “Leading by example and strategic lying in voluntary contribution experiments”
Jil van Laack, Projekt: “Does it even matter? The impact of meaningfulness and real consequences on lying: An experimental study”
Tobias Wingen, Projekt: “Power, Moral Attitudes and Corruption – A novel approach to ‚Power corrupts!‘”

Visitor and International Fellowship Program:
Achim Wambach, Forschungsaufenthalt von Olivier Bos an der Universität zu Köln