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Research interests
I work within the field of neuroeconomics, a highly interdisciplinary field bringing together psychology, economics and cognitive neuroscience.
My work explores the types of decisions that we commonly make, typically financial decisions, and understanding the conscious and unconscious psychological mechanisms that are involved in the choice (e.g. influence of unconscious emotions). I commonly measure brain activation or psychophysiolgical signals to provide insight into these psychological mechanisms (e.g. EEG, eye-tracking, heart rate and galvanic skin response). I then integrate, and improve upon, predictive theories of decision-making from economics to allow us to try to predict how individuals or groups will decide.
I work with other Academics from the fields of business, management and economics. I also, commonly, work with practitioners to apply my findings directly to a wide range of organisations.
Teaching interests
My teaching resides predominantly within the field of behavioural and neuro-economics.
We have our MSc in Applied Psychology and Economic Behaviour that I am heavily involved in. This MSc provides students with a fantastic opportunity to develop a truly interdiscipinary perspective and understanding of how human beings make decisions and how we can develop predictive models of behaviour. Such an understanding can be extremely valuable and sought after by empoyers in field such as policy development and deployment, consumer psychology, HR, healthcare, risk management and beyond.
For more details on the MSc Applied Psychology and Economic Behaviour search for our programme at www.bath.ac.uk.
Willing to supervise doctoral students
I welcome applications from any student engaged in developing further insight and creating new understanding and applications in the science of human decision-making. More specifically, you should be interested in adult healthy decision-making, commonly involving a financial component.
For example, previous PhD projects of mine have explored changes in metacognition over adult aging and how this impacts upon investment choices; the effect of unconscious arousal on trading behaviour; an EEG investigation of the mere social exposure effect and the psychology of project entrapment.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- HB Economic Theory
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Finished
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An investigation into the relationship between social housing quality & spending decisions in the context of cost-of-living crisis
Albadra, D., Hinvest, N., Hoffmann, J., Bajoori, E. & Budd, C.
15/11/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research-related funding
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KTP with CheckRisk Management Services Ltd
24/02/20 → 19/08/22
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Elucidating the 'Shared Brain'
Hinvest, N., Ashwin, C., Dawes, J. & Smith, L. G. E.
4/07/16 → 30/09/19
Project: UK charity
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An empirical evaluation of methodologies used for emotion recognition via EEG signals
Hinvest, N., Ashwin, C., Hook, J., Carter, F., Smith, L. & Stothart, G., 31 Dec 2022, In: Social Neuroscience. 17, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (SciVal) -
Do Emotions Benefit Investment Decisions? Anticipatory Emotion and Investment Decisions in Non-professional Investors
Hinvest, N. S., Alsharman, M., Roell, M. & Fairchild, R., 9 Dec 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 705476.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Editorial: Emotions and Cognition in Financial Decision-Making
Hinvest, N. S., Fairchild, R. & Ackert, L., 10 Dec 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 811243.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Attentional bias in Internet users with problematic use of social networking sites
Nikolaidou, M., Stanton Fraser, D. & Hinvest, N., 31 Dec 2019, In: Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 8, 4, p. 733-742 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access24 Citations (SciVal) -
Mapping the Shared Brain
Hinvest, N., 26 Sept 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
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Dataset for paper entitled "Do emotions benefit investment decisions? Anticipatory emotion and investment decisions in non-professional investors"
Hinvest, N. (Creator), Alsharman, M. (Creator), Roell, M. (Creator) & Fairchild, R. (Creator), University of Bath, 9 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00699
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Dataset for article entitled "An empirical evaluation of methodologies used for emotion recognition via EEG signals"
Hinvest, N. (Creator), Ashwin, C. (Creator), Carter, F. (Creator), Hook, J. (Creator), Smith, L. G. E. (Creator) & Stothart, G. (Creator), University of Bath, 30 Jan 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00899
Dataset