Michael Edem Fiagbenu

Postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer

E-Mail
michaeledem.fiagbenu@uni-jena.de

Telefon
+49 3641 9-45256

Sprechzeit
nach Vereinbarung

Raum
D204

Postadresse
Institut für Psychologie
Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie
Humboldtstr. 26
07743 Jena

Forschungsinteressen
Politische Ideologie und Verschwörungsglauben

Emotionen, Bedrohungs- und Risikowahrnehmung

Finanzielle Entscheidungsfindung

Lernen und Gedächtnis

Soziale Ungleichheit

Soziale und kognitive Neurowissenschaften
Publikationen
Fiagbenu, M.E. (2022). The stock market is rigged? Conspiracy beliefs and distrust are associated with lower stock market participation. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36(5), 978–995. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3981Externer Link

Fiagbenu, M.E. & Kessler, T. (2022). Fear and loathing of Wall Street: Political liberalism, uncertainty reduction and threat management in a dangerous and risky economic world. Political Psychology. 43(6), 1101-1121https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12805Externer Link

Fiagbenu. M.E., Proch, J. & Kessler, T. (2021). Of deadly beans and risky stocks: Political ideology and attitude formation via exploration depend on the nature of the attitude stimuli. British Journal of Psychology, 112 (1), 342-357. doi:10.1111/bjop.12430

Fiagbenu. M.E., Proch, J. & Kessler, T. (2021). Stimulus sampling and other recommendations for assessing domain‐general processes of attitude formation through exploration: Reply to Ruisch, Shook, and Fazio (2020). British Journal of Psychology, 112 (1), 362-365. doi:10.1111/bjop.12430

Hoffman, E. Fiagbenu, M.E., .zgümüs, A., Tahamtan, A.M., Regner, T. (2021). Who is watching me?Disentangling audience and interpersonal closeness effects in a Pay-What-You-Want context. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 90(5-6) doi:10.1016/j.socec.2020.101631
Akademischer Werdegang
Since October 2021
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für Forschung und Lehre - Abteilung Sozialpsychologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

2022
Dr. phil. Psychology. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Stipendiat der International Max Planck Research School on Adapating Behaviour in a Fundamentally Uncertain World: Doctoral dissertation --- On the nature of ideological belief systems and how they shape the perception and reduction of context-specific threats and risks

2018
Gastwissenchaftler - Abteilung Psychologie, Univeristy of Illinois in Chicago

2013 – 2015
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter --- Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Center for Brain and Behavioural Sciences/Abteilung Wirschshaftwissenschaft

2012
MSc Neuroscience --- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU-Trondheim) --- Master thesis: Behavioural and neural correlates of auditory and olfactory memory

2009
BSc Psychology --- University of Ghana --- Bachelor thesis: Effects of acoustic and semantic similarity on short-term memory retention
Ausgewählte Konferenzen
Fiagbenu, M.E., Kessler, T. (March, 2018). Of deadly beans and risky stocks: Negativity bias and political attitude formation via exploration depends on the nature of the attitude stimuli. Paper presented at Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, Georgia.

Fiagbenu, M.E., Kessler, T. (July, 2017). Effect of stimuli framing on attitude formation in conservatives and liberals. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Edinburgh, UK.

Fiagbenu, M.E., Kessler, T. (June, 2016). In search of the Negativity Bias in Political Attitude Formation in a German sample using the BeanFest Paradigm. Paper presented at the EASP medium size meeting Psychology of Political Ideology, Oppurg, Germany.