Dr. Michael Edem Fiagbenu

Postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer

Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie

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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

  • Research interests
    • Political ideology and conspiracy beliefs
    • Emotions, threat and risk perception
    • Financial decision making
    • Learning and memory
    • Social inequality
    • Social and cognitive neuroscience
  • 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.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
  • 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
  • Selected conferences