Jan B. Engelmann
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Jan B. Engelmann received his M.A. in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Brown University. His doctoral dissertation focused on the cognitive neuroscience of motivation-attention interactions. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Computation and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Emory University, he pursued his interest in neuroeconomics by conducting experiments on the neurobiological basis of financial risk attitudes. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zurich, where he is investigating the neurobiological basis of trust.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Engelmann, J. B., Capra, M. S., Noussair, C. & Berns, G. S. (2009). Expert financial advice neurobiologically “offloads” financial decision-making under risk. PLoS One, 4(3), e4957.
- Engelmann, J. B., Damaraju, E., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2009) Combined effects of attention and motivation on visual task performance: Transient and sustained motivational effects. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3:4.
- Engelmann, J. B., & Hein, G. (2013) Context and social influences on valuation and choice. Progress in Brain Research, 202, 215-237.
- Engelmann, J. B., Moore, S., Capra, C. M., & Berns, G. S. (2012). Differential neurobiological effects of expert advice on risky choice in adolescents and adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(5), 557-567.
- Engelmann, J. B., & Pessoa, L. (2007). Motivation sharpens exogenous spatial attention. Emotion, 7(3), 668-674.
- Engelmann, J. B., & Tamir, D. (2009). Individual differences in risk preference predict neural responses during financial decision-making. Brain Research, 1290, 28-51.
- Pogosyan, M., & Engelmann, J. B. (2011). Cultural differences in affect intensity perception in the context of advertising. Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2, 313.
Jan B. Engelmann
Department of Economics
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 30
8006 Zurich
Switzerland
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