Dr Dennie Van Dolder
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Email
d.vandolder@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874204
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Location
5.408, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex. I am the director of the Essex Centre for Behavioural Science which houses the state-of-the-art Essex Behavioural Science Laboratory (ESSEXLab) . In addition, I serve as an Associate Editor at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization . I am a behavioral economist. In my research, I use a broad portfolio of research methods–including experiments and advanced microeconometric techniques–to further our understanding of human judgment and decision making. Whereas most empirical research in this area relies on experiments or surveys, I often employ large and rich data sets from carefully selected field settings that can be characterized as natural (or “naturally occurring”) experiments. I completed my PhD in Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of Peter Wakker and Han Bleichrodt . Before joining Essex, I held positions at the University of Nottingham and the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. I have been a visiting researcher at, amongst others, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
Appointments
University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Economics, University of Essex (11/10/2021 - present)
Other academic
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PhD researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam (15/10/2009 - 24/9/2014)
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Research Fellow, University of Nottingham (1/3/2014 - 1/9/2017)
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Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam (1/9/2017 - 31/12/2021)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Experimental Economics (EC955)
Current supervision
Publications
Publications (5)
Klein Teeselink, B., van Dolder, D., van den Assem, MJ. and Dana, J., High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction: Evidence from 'The Price Is Right'
Klein Teeselink, B., van Dolder, D., van den Assem, MJ. and Dana, J., (2024). High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction
van Dolder, D. and Vandenbroucke, J., (2024). Behavioral Risk Profiling: Measuring Loss Aversion of Individual Investors
Kopsacheilis, O., van Dolder, D. and Isler, O., (2024). Conditional Cooperation under Uncertainty: The Social Description-Experience Gap
Van Dolder, D. and Vandenbroucke, J., (2022). Behavioral Risk Profiling: Measuring Loss Aversion of Individual Investors
Journal articles (22)
Klein Teeselink, B., Van Dolder, D., van den Assem, M. and Dana, J., (2024). High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction. Games and Economic Behavior
Van Dolder, D. and Vandenbroucke, J., (2024). Behavioral Risk Profiling: Measuring Loss Aversion of Individual Investors. Journal of Banking and Finance. 168, 107293-107293
Klein Teeselink, B., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2023). Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Sports. Management Science. 69 (1), 513-532
Buser, T., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2023). Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 206, 350-370
Neckermann, S., Turmunkh, U., van Dolder, D. and Wang, TV., (2022). Nudging student participation in online evaluations of teaching: Evidence from a field experiment. European Economic Review. 141, 104001-104001
van den Assem, MJ., van Dolder, D., Zwinkels, RCJ. and Schauten, MBJ., (2022). Can the market divide and multiply? A case of 807 percent mispricing. Review of Behavioral Finance. 14 (1), 35-44
Li, X., Molleman, L. and van Dolder, D., (2021). Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior. 42 (5), 469-479
Johnson, C., Baillon, A., Bleichrodt, H., Li, Z., van Dolder, D. and Wakker, PP., (2021). Prince: An improved method for measuring incentivized preferences. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 62 (1), 1-28
Klein Teeselink, B., Potter van Loon, RJD., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2020). Incentives, performance and choking in darts. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 169, 38-52
Turmunkh, U., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2019). Malleable Lies: Communication and Cooperation in a High Stakes TV Game Show. Management Science. 65 (10), 4795-4812
Giacomantonio, M., Jordan, J., Federico, F., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2018). The evil eye: Eye gaze and competitiveness in social decision making. European Journal of Social Psychology. 48 (3), 388-396
van Dolder, D. and van den Assem, MJ., (2018). The wisdom of the inner crowd in three large natural experiments. Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (1), 21-26
Baillon, A., Liu, N. and van Dolder, D., (2017). Comparing uncertainty aversion towards different sources. Theory and Decision. 83 (1), 1-18
Wang, TV., Potter van Loon, RJD., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2016). Number preferences in lotteries. Judgment and Decision Making. 11 (3), 243-259
Baltussen, G., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2016). Risky Choice in the Limelight. Review of Economics and Statistics. 98 (2), 318-332
Abdellaoui, M., Bleichrodt, H., L’Haridon, O. and van Dolder, D., (2016). Measuring Loss Aversion under Ambiguity: A Method to Make Prospect Theory Completely Observable. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 52 (1), 1-20
Van Dolder, D., (2016). Irreconcilable differences [4]. Economist (United Kingdom). 412 (8992)
van Dolder, D., van den Assem, MJ., Camerer, CF. and Thaler, RH., (2015). Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show. American Economic Review. 105 (5), 402-407
Potter van Loon, RJD., van den Assem, MJ. and van Dolder, D., (2015). Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker. PLOS ONE. 10 (3), e0115479-e0115479
van Dolder, D. and Buskens, V., (2014). Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks: An Experiment on Social Preferences. PLoS ONE. 9 (4), e92276-e92276
Baillon, A., Selim, A. and van Dolder, D., (2013). On the social nature of eyes: The effect of social cues in interaction and individual choice tasks. Evolution and Human Behavior. 34 (2), 146-154
van den Assem, MJ., van Dolder, D. and Thaler, RH., (2012). Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large. Management Science. 58 (1), 2-20
Book chapters (1)
Van Dolder, D. and van den Assem, MJ., (2012). Coöperatie in Spelshows (Cooperation in Game Shows). In: Samenwerking in sociale dilemma's voorbeelden van Nederlands onderzoek. Editors: Buskens, V. and Maas, I., . Amsterdam University Press. 209- 234. 9089645217. 9789089645210
Conferences (1)
van Dolder, D. and Buskens, V., (2009). Social motives in network formation: An experiment
