Society & Choice Research Seminar
The Society & Choice research seminar is a platform where invited researchers present their work and take part in a short discussion with those attending. All lectures are open to researchers and students. Regular attendance is expected from Ph.D. students in the Society & Choice research area. More dates may be added.
Program: Spring Semester 2026
| Date | Time | Place | Speaker | Host |
| 19 February | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Leonie Cloos Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Belgium | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 5 March | 17:00-18:00 | Online Zoom | Corey Cusimano School of Management, Yale University, USA People recognize and condone their own morally motivated reasoning | CDS/Maximilian Theisen |
| 12 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Melanie Partsch Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 19 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Axel Burger GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciencs, Mannheim, Germany | SP/Melissa Jauch |
| 26 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Julien Irmer Psychology Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany From nonparametric model selection to model-implied simulation-based power estimation: Towards an adaptive, machine-learning-inspired framework for complex structural equation models and beyond | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 9 April | 15:00-16:00 | Online Zoom | Peter Kvam Cognition & Decision Modeling Lab, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, USA Discovering and testing scientific theories using deep learning methods | EP/Amir Rasanen |
| 16 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Dirk Wulff Center for Adaptive Rationality, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Clarifying the structure of psychology using large language models | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 23 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Isabel Thielmann Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany | SP/Fanny Lalot |
| 30 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Alexander Langenkamp Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany | SP/Natalia Bogatyreva |
| 7 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Nils Köbis Human Understanding of Algorithms and Machines, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 21 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Anna Shevchuk Department of Educational Science, University of Freiburg, Germany | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 28 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Tomáš Jagelka Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn, Germany | EP/Joerg Rieskamp |
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