Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Psychology

On January 1^st, 2019, I became the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Psychology (JoEP), an interdisciplinary journal which publishes research both on Economic Psychology and on Behavioral Economics. I have succeeded Martin Kocher and Stefan Schulz-Hardt, who in turn succeeded Erik Hoelzl and Eric Kirchler a couple of years ago. There will eventually be a second Co-Editor, but for the moment being I am alone at the helm, and I have committed to be a Co-Editor until at least end of 2022. I know the journal well, as I have been in the board as an Associate Editor for some years now (since the times of Erik and Eric).

Economic Decisions and the EEG: An Example

Many neuroeconomics studies use fMRI machines. In my group, we currently concentrate on the electroencephalograph (EEG). The main reason is that we are interested in the analysis of decision processes in the brain, and the EEG has an excellent time resolution, while the fMRI is better for questions requiring a fine spatial resolution, e.g. brain localization.

An example of what the EEG can do for economic research, and in particular decision theory, is in a paper from my lab (Achtziger, Alós-Ferrer, Hügelschäfer, and Steinhauser, 2014), published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (with the lovely acronym SCAN). In case you are wondering, authors are in alphabetical order as per econ conventions; unlike neuroscientists, economists do not quibble about who has contributed more to a given paper.