The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME University is pleased to welcome John Jensenius III, Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, University of Oxford. Dr. Jensenius will be presenting his work titled "On Inactivity in the Lab" The abstract of his talk is as follows: "I explore the role of inactivity in the social science laboratory, looking at how it affects subjects and their behavior, and I look into some alternatives. First, I look at how experimenter-imposed inactivity affects subject behavior in three simple economic environments. Then, I look at the same three economic environments, but manipulate the source of the inactivity so that it is now partially the result of other subjects’ actions. In this situation, I find some evidence that inactivity affects subject behavior in some economic games but doesn't affect risk preferences. Finally, I use a novel setup to take a direct measure of the value subjects have for inactivity. I find that subjects are willing to forgo positive wages to avoid inactivity in the lab."


You can learn more about Dr. Jensenius's here.