Michael Edem Fiagbenu

Postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer

Michael Edem Fiagbenu

Foto: Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie

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.12430Externer Link
    • 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.12430Externer Link
    • 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.2020.101631Externer Link
  • 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.