IAREP newsletter November 2011 IAREP International Association for Research in Economic Psychology http://www.iarep.org/ November 2011 Newsletter The IAREP Newsletter is issued by the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology as an announcement bulletin for its members. Contributions to this newsletter are welcome. To submit contributions please e-mail Ofer Azar ([email protected] ). Relevant items include information about conferences, workshops, special issues of journals or other activities in economic psychology, behavioral economics, and related fields. If you are a IAREP member and want to send an e-mail to all other IAREP members, you can do so by sending an e-mail to [email protected] . The administrator of this mailing list is IAREP administrative officer, Sandie McHugh, [email protected] . Newsletter Editor: Ofer Azar Department of Business Administration Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel E-mail: [email protected] 1 IAREP newsletter November 2011 IAREP Officials President: David Leiser Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Honorary Secretary: Tomasz Zaleskiewicz Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland E-mail: [email protected] Honorary Treasurer: Rob Ranyard University of Bolton, UK E-mail: [email protected] Editors, Journal of Economic Psychology: Erik Hoelzl University of Cologne, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Erich Kirchler University of Vienna, Austria e-mail: [email protected] Past President: Alan Lewis University of Bath, UK E-mail: [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Ofer Azar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Administrative officer: Sandie McHugh University of Bolton, UK E-mail: [email protected] Mailing addresses of the above officials and IAREP officials in the immediate past are listed on http://www.iarep.org/officials.htm A full list of previous IAREP officials appears on http://www.iarep.org/archive_officials.htm ICABEEP Executive Committee : Ofer Azar (Chairperson), Gerrit Antonides, Vera Rita de Mello Ferreira, Louis Lévy-Garboua, Charlotte Phelps and Gideon Yaniv 2 IAREP newsletter November 2011 Table of Contents Editorial ............................................................................................................................................ 4 From the President's Chair ............................................................................................................... 5 Call for Nominations ........................................................................................................................ 6 IAREP Membership Renewals ......................................................................................................... 6 IAREP Administrative Office .......................................................................................................... 6 IAREP General Assembly Minutes .................................................................................................. 7 IAREP conference 2012 in Wroclaw (Poland) ................................................................................ 8 Elsevier/IAREP/ICABEEP Best Student Paper Competition 2012 ................................................. 9 SABE/IAREP/ICABEEP Conference ............................................................................................ 10 Call for proposals for joint SABE-IAREP-ICABEEP activities .................................................... 10 ICABEEP (The International Confederation for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and Economic Psychology) news .......................................................................................................... 11 Report on the Journal of Economic Psychology 2010-2011 .......................................................... 12 ICABEEP-IAREP-SABE Workshop: Expectations and Forecasting in Consumer Behavior ....... 12 STEP 2: STEEP – The second Summer school on Theories in Environmental and Economic Psychology ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Bay Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop Joint IAREP-SABE-ICABEEP Workshop ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Results of Student Paper Competition - Exeter 2011 ..................................................................... 15 Western Economics Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference, June 29 – July 3, 2012 ................................................................................................................................................ 16 Activity of Venezuelan Chapter ..................................................................................................... 17 Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology ......................................... 17 Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology ......................................... 18 Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Socio-Economics on Culture and Economics ..... 19 8th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioural Economics (IMEBE 2012) ............ 19 Call for papers: Non-Monetary Incentives and Economic Behavior ............................................. 20 NSF Workshop on Genes, Cognition and Social Behavior ............................................................ 21 Society for Judgment and Decision Making .................................................................................. 22 2012 Socionomics Summit: New Frontiers in Research and Application ..................................... 22 3 IAREP newsletter November 2011 Editorial Ofer Azar The second IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP conference that we had in Exeter, organized by Stephen Lea and his great team, was an excellent conference and it was a pleasure to see many of you there – and to have the lovely boat tour, which was even accompanied by great weather. Thanks Stephen and all the others for organizing this wonderful event! In 2012, IAREP and SABE will take a short break from joint conferences (after a long sequence of joint conferences – Rome 2008, Halifax 2009, Cologne 2010 and Exeter 2011). IAREP will have a conference in Wroclaw, Poland on September 5-8, whereas SABE will hold its conference in Granada, Spain on July 12-15. Then in 2013 the plan is to meet again for a joint SABE/IAREP/ICABEEP conference in Atlanta, US. In addition, we also continue to have joint workshops, on which you can see more details in another item in the newsletter. The impact factor of the Journal of Economic Psychology for 2010 was published and shows that the jump from 2008 to 2009 reflects a stable increase in the journal’s impact. To realize just how good these impact factors (of 1.36-1.47) are compared to other economics journals, notice that in 2009 JoEP ’s impact factor was higher than that of top economics journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association ; Rand Journal of Economics ; Games and Economic Behavior ; European Economic Review ; Journal of Economic Theory ; and the International Economic Review . In 2010 the impact factor exceeded that of top journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics ; Economica ; European Economic Review ; Journal of Economic Theory ; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ; and Kyklos . There is no doubt that the former Editors, Gerrit Antonides and Daniel Read, did a great job, and now the current Editors, Erik Hoelzl and Erich Kirchler, continue to develop the journal and I am sure this will be reflected in high impact factors in the following years. I hope that researchers in economic psychology in general and IAREP members in particular will continue to submit their best papers to the Journal or Economic Psychology , which is affiliated with IAREP as you probably know. Finally, I want to invite those of you who want to contribute to IAREP to submit their nomination to become the new IAREP Newsletter Editor. After four years of editing the newsletter (in two of which I also served as IAREP Honorary Secretary and webmaster), I am stepping down from this position in 2012 (the next newsletter, around May 2012, will be my last one, and the new editor will take over in the November 2012 newsletter). If you want information about the job before submitting your nomination feel free to contact me. All the best, Ofer 4 IAREP newsletter November 2011 From the President's Chair David Leiser Dear Friends, A few months have already passed since the superbly organized conference at Exeter, under the able guidance of Stephen Lea. I would like to thank you for your trust in electing me to serve as President. Economic Psychology and Behavioral Economics have come a long way since our Association was founded. Recognition of the pivotal interaction between our component disciplines was gradual, and over the last couple of years its importance has become clear to academics and decision makers alike, especially against the background of the crises the world economies are traversing. IAREP must continue to focus on two goals: promoting our discipline, and serving as a resource and catalyst for progress. Several changes may help here. We are currently working on the design for a revamped site for IAREP that will better serve our