Dr. Michael Edem Fiagbenu
Postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer
E-Mail
michaeledem.fiagbenu@uni-jena.de
Phone
+49 3641 9-45256
Office hours
By appointment
Room
D204
Mail address
Institut für Psychologie
Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie
Humboldtstr. 26
07743 Jena
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Research interests
- Political ideology and conspiracy beliefs
- Emotions, threat and risk perception
- Financial decision making
- Learning and memory
- Social inequality
- Social and cognitive neuroscience
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Publications
- 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.3981External 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), 1101-1121. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12805External 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.12430External 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.12430External 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.2020.101631External link
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CV
- Since October 2021
Postdoctoral researcher & Lecturer --- Department of Social Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - 2022
PhD Psychology --- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & 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
Research Staff --- Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Illinois in Chicago - 2013 – 2015
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter --- Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Center for Brain and Behavioural Sciences/Department of Economics - 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
- Since October 2021
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Selected conferences