Max Planck Research Group “Mechanisms of Normative Change” invite outstanding candidates to apply for doctoral fellowships in Law, Economics, and Psychology.

The IMPRS Uncertainty combines approaches from Economics, Law, and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses. It is jointly hosted by the Max Planck Institutes for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, for Human Development in Berlin; the Institute of Psychology and the School of Economics and Business Administration of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and the University of Bonn, Institute of Commercial and Economic Law. International Partners are the Program in Cognitive Science and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, the Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management (CIFREM) at the University of Trento, and the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

The Max Planck Research Group “Mechanisms of Normative Change” is a new research unit at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and studies the underlying causal mechanisms of cooperation, conflict and normative change. The research builds on quantitative methods allowing causal inference, such as experimental methods, network analysis and panel data as well as appropriate statistical and formal modeling. Candidates should have a background in sociology, economics, social psychology, computer science, or a related discipline, and strong quantitative skills.

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