23–24 November 2021
Held over two evenings, 23 November 8.00–10.10pm AEDT and 24 November 8.00–9.50pm AEDT, the annual MBBL symposium brought together esteemed researchers around the world and in Australia to discuss a range of behavioural methods and data collection approaches, including eye-tracking, skin conductance, EEG, and psychometric measurements.
The Symposium was interdisciplinary in nature and brought together researchers associated with the MBBL, academics leading in their field, and practitioners interested in applying behavioural research.
A total of 88 participants from different universities, institutions and industries around the globe attending the Symposium. There were five presentations in eye-tracking research of which two studies were collaborative projected conducted by researchers at Monash Business School and the speakers.
The discussions and Q&A produced further insights into findings from empirical research that utilised eye-tracking machines to measure emotion expressions and monitor behavioural reactions in various business contexts. The Networking activities were effectively conducted via the breakout room function in Zoom, in which 3-5 participants were located into each virtual room for networking and discussion. Both sessions of the Symposium were wrapped up with Panel Discussion, looking at emerging issues around the presented studies and implications for future research.
Speakers
A/Prof Boris van Leeuwenn
Boris van Leeuwen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of Tilburg University. Before coming to Tilburg, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). He obtained his PhD at CREED, the experimental economics group of the University of Amsterdam. He is primarily interested in experimental and behavioral economics.
Dr Shengchuang Feng
Shengchuang Feng is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) of Nanyang Technological University. He received his doctoral degree in psychology at Virginia Tech in 2020, and was a postdoctoral associate at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute of Virginia Tech. His research interests include social cognition, reward-guided learning/decision making and related disruptions in mental disorders such as depression, addiction, and anxiety. He uses computational models, self-report measures, and functional magnetic resonance imaging to understand both behavioural and neural mechanisms of social/nonsocial cognition in healthy people as well as in mental illnesses.
Dr Elizabeth Bowman
Dr Elizabeth Bowman is Postdoctoral Fellow in Decision Neuroscience in the Brain, Minds and Markets Laboratory in the Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Her current research looks at how variations in neurotransmitters may affect how people make complex optimisation decisions and decisions under risk and uncertainty. This includes pharmacological, eye tracking and pupillometry investigations of how humans make decisions under conditions of varying computational complexity.
Dr Milad Haghani
Milad Haghani is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is a multidisciplinary researcher, but the main core of his work resides at the intersect of transportation and safety, with a special focus on human factors. He teaches Road Safety & Traffic Psychology at UNSW. He has contributed extensively to the areas of crowd dynamics and evacuation modelling in both numerical and experimental fronts, and has also pioneered innovative applications of econometric choice methods in those domains. He has been first or sole author of nearly fifty research articles. In his previous work, he has also undertaken extensive empirical investigations of hypothetical bias in choice experiments, particularly in non-monetary choice applications.
A/Prof Kristian Rotaru
A/Prof Kristian Rotaru is a decision scientist working in the Department of Accounting, Monash Business School. His latest research focuses on risk analysis, professional judgement in managerial accounting and auditing, affective decision making in everyday economic behaviours, neurocognitive and functional correlates of addiction, and on designing and testing interventions for behavioural change. He collaborates with a number of research labs, including BrainPark (Monash University), The Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab / Paul Liknaitzky Lab (Monash University), and Brain, Mind and Markets Lab (University of Melbourne). In 2018, he was presented with the Commonwealth Bank Award for Financial Wellbeing at The Behavioural Exchange Conference (BX2018) for his research on behavioural interventions associated with developing financial skills training schemes.
Abstracts
Tuesday 23 November