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Research interests
Dr Hinvest's research investigates individual and collective decision-making through the lens of neuroeconomics. He predominantly uses neural imaging and behavioural analyses to investigate conscious and subconscious factors influencing decisions that we make individually or socially.
As examples, Dr Hinvest's work has investigated how inter-brain synchrony may be associated with the emergence of representations of connectedness in social interaction. Inter-brain synchrony is a nascent scientific field investigating overlapping brain activity within individuals sharing a social environment, typically sharing a common goal. His work elucidates the potential psychological mechanisms involved and the applications, e.g., within team performance.
A further example is his research on conscious and subconscious psychological factors influencing investment decision-making, focusing particularly on the interaction between cognitions and emotions.
Dr Hinvest employs several methodologies in his work including hyper-EEG, eye-tracking, psychophysiological measurement (e.g., skin conductance), experimental behavioural testing (lab-based and online) and surveys.
Teaching interests
Dr Hinvest's teaching resides predominantly within the field of behavioural and neuroeconomics.
He is the Director of Studies for our MSc Applied Psychology and Economic Behaviour. This MSc provides students with the 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, behavioural insights, consumer psychology, HR, healthcare, risk management and beyond.
For more details on the MSc Applied Psychology and Economic Behaviour, search for the course on the University of Bath website. Dr Hinvest welcomes emails from potential applicants.
Willing to supervise doctoral students
Dr Hinvest welcomes applications from applicants interested in creation of knowledge and/or applications mainly focused on taking a cognitive neuroscience approach to the investigation of collective or individual decision-making (focusing on healthy adult populations).
Examples of such work may include breaking new ground in the understanding and/or applications of inter-brain synchrony or developing science-led applications for improvement of financial decision-making or collective decision-making performance.
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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Institute of Mathematical Innovation (University of Bath): P3 funding
Hinvest, N. (PI), Hoffmann, J. (CoI), Albadra, D. (CoI) & Bajoori, E. (CoI)
16/07/22 → …
Project: Research-related funding
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Institute of Mathematical Innovation: P3 project: A Computational Approach to Collective Decision-Making
Hinvest, N. (CoPI), Kreusser, L. (CoPI), Mergoupis, T. (CoPI) & Dimov, D. (CoPI)
11/11/23 → 11/11/24
Project: Other
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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. (PI), Hinvest, N. (CoI), Hoffmann, J. (CoI), Bajoori, E. (CoI) & Budd, C. (CoI)
15/11/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research-related funding
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KTP with CheckRisk Management Services Ltd
Dimov, D. (PI) & Hinvest, N. (CoI)
Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
24/02/20 → 19/08/22
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Elucidating the 'Shared Brain'
Hinvest, N. (PI), Ashwin, C. (CoI), Dawes, J. (CoI) & Smith, L. G. E. (CoI)
4/07/16 → 30/09/19
Project: UK charity
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Inter-brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs
Hinvest, N. S., Ashwin, C., Hijazy, M., Carter, F., Scarampi, C., Stothart, G. & Smith, L. G. E., 26 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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 Access37 Citations (SciVal)
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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
Dataset
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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