LECTURERS

The invited lecturers are the following:
Drazen Prelec, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)
Matthias Sutter, Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck (AUSTRIA)
Keith Markman, Department of Psychology, Ohio University (USA)

The local organizers are the following:
Alessandro Antonietti, Patrizia Catellani, Antonella Marchetti, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (Italy)

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LECTURERS

KEITH MARKMAN, Department of Psychology, Ohio University (USA)
Webpage: http://www.psych.ohiou.edu/people/Faculty/markman/markman.html
Interests : Social cognition - Social judgment - Counterfactual thinking
Publications:
Markman, K. D., Hirt, E. R. (2002). Social prediction and the "allegiance bias." Social Cognition, 20, 58-86.
Markman, K. D., Klein, W. M. P., & Suhr, J. A. (2008). The handbook of imagination and mental simulation. New York: Psychology Press.
Markman, K. D., McMullen, M. N., & Elizaga, R. A. (2008). Counterfactual thinking, persistence, and performance: A test of the Reflection and Evaluation Model. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 421-428.
Markman, K. D., Karadogan, F., Lindberg, M. J., & Zell, E. (2008). Counterfactual thinking: Function and dysfunction. In K. D. Markman, W. M. P. Klein & J. A. Suhr (Eds.), The handbook of imagination and mental simulation (pp. 175-194). New York: Psychology Press.
Beike, D. R., Markman, K. D., & Karadogan, F. (in press). What we regret most are lost opportunities: A theory of regret intensity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

MATTHIAS SUTTER, Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Webpage: http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c40421/
Interests: Fairness and Trust - Time pressure - Decision-making development
Publications:
Sutter, M., Kocher, M., & Strauß, S. (2003), Bargaining under time pressure in an experimental ultimatum game. Economics Letters, 81, 341-347.
Kocher, M., & Sutter, M. (2006), Time is money – Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision making. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61, 375-392.
Sutter, M. (2007). Outcomes versus intentions. On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28, 69-78.
Sutter, M., & Kocher, M. (2007), Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups. Games and Economic Behavior, 59, 364-382.
Kugler, T., Bornstein, G., Kocher, M., & Sutter, M. (2007), Trust between individuals and groups: Groups are less trusting than individuals but just as trustworthy. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28, 646-657.

DRAZEN PRELEC, Sloan School - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)
Webpage: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=106&co_list=F
Interests: Time preference - Risky choice - Mental accounting
Publications:
Prelec, D., & Bodner R. (2003). Self-signaling and self-control. In G. Loewenstein, D. Read, & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.) Time and decision. New York: Russell Sage Press.
Prelec, D. (2004). Decreasing impatience: A criterion for non-stationary time preference and hyperbolic discounting, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 106, 511-532.
Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G., & Prelec, D. (2005). Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics. Journal of Economic Literature, 43, 9-64.
Knutson, B., Rick, S., Wimmer, E., Prelec, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2007). Neural predictors of purchases. Neuron, 53, 147-156.
Ebert, J., & Prelec, D. (2007). The fragility of time: Time-insensitivity and valuation of the near and far future. Management Science, 53, 1423-1438.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LOCAL ORGANISERS

ALESSANDRO ANTONIETTI, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (Italy)
Webpage: http://www.psycholab.net/antonietti/
Interests: Decision-making – Creativity and problem solving – Learning
Publications:
Antonietti, A., & Cornoldi, C. (2006). Creativity in Italy. In J. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), International handbook of creativity (pp. 124-166). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fabbri, M., Antonietti, A., Giorgetti, M., Tonetti, L., & Natale, V. (2007). Circadian typology and style of thinking differences. Learning and Individual Differences, 17, 175-180.
Antonietti, A., Colombo, B., & Lozotsev Y. (2008). Undergraduates’ metacognitive knowledge about the psychological effects of different kinds of computer-supported instructional tools. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2172-2198.
Antonietti, A., Morandi Corradini, A., & Lowe, E. J. (Eds.) (2008). Psycho-physical dualism today. An interdisciplinary approach. Lenham (MD): Lexington.
Iannello, P., & Antonietti, A. (2008). Reciprocity in financial decision-making: intuitive and analytical mind-reading strategies. International Review of Economics, 55, 167-184.

PATRIZIA CATELLANI, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (Italy)
Webpage: http://catellani.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Counterfactual thinking – Political psychology
Publications:
Catellani, P., Alberici, I., & Milesi, P. (2004). Counterfactual thinking and stereotypes: The nonconformity effect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 421-436.
Catellani, P. (2004). Political psychology, Overview. In C. Spielberger (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of applied psychology (pp. 51-65). London: Elesevier.
Catellani, P. & Milesi, P. (2005). When the context frames the case: Counterfactuals in the courtroom. In D. Mandel, D. Hilton & P. Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of counterfactual thinking (pp. 183-198). London: Routledge,.
Catellani, P. & Milesi, P. (2006). Juries in Italy: Social and legal norms in sentencing. In M. F. Kaplan & A.M. Martin (Eds.), Understanding world jury systems through social psychological research (pp. 125-145). New York: Psychology Press.
Catellani, P. & Milesi, P. (2007). Two psychological routes to right-wing extremism: How Italian workers cope with change. In J. Flecker (Ed.), Changes in working life and the appeal of the extreme right (pp. 105-121). London: Ashgate.

ANTONELLA MARCHETTI, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (Italy)
Webpage: http://www.theoryofmind.info/en/page0/page8/page8.html
Interests: Theory of mind - Decision-making in developmental perspective
Publications:
Gilli, G., Marchetti, A., Siegal, M. & Peterson, C.C. (2001). Children’s incipient ability to distinguish mistakes from lies: An Italian investigation. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 25(1), 88-92.
Lecciso, F., Liverta Sempio, O. & Marchetti, A. (2004). Teacher-child relationship: a meeting of minds. European Journal of School Psychology, 2, 65-81.
Shatz, M., Dyer, J. D., Marchetti, A. & Massaro, D. (2006). Culture and mental states. A comparison of English and Italian versions of children's books. In A. Antonietti, O. Liverta Sempio & A. Marchetti (Eds.) Theory of mind and language in developmental contexts (pp. 93-106). New York: Springer.
Bicchieri, C., Castelli, I., Marchetti, A. & Massaro, D. (2008). Children’s expectations about fairness norms: evidences from the Ultimatum Game. Invited oral communications at the Interdisciplinary Workshop II on Social and Moral Norms in Intentional Action, on “The Nature and Development of Moral Norms”, 9th -10th October 2008, University of Oslo, Norway. On-line materials: http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2008/workshop_II_social_moral_norms.xml
Castelli, I., Sanfey, A.G. & Marchetti, A. (submitted). When Theory of Mind is involved in decision-making: an exploratory study with the Ultimatum Game.


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