Better ways to vote

The behavioural economist at Lancaster University Management School (UK) and editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology, Prof. Dr Carlos Alós-Ferrer, showed in his lecture that extreme election results are not only due to social polarisation, but also to the voting methods used.

Using numerous laboratory and online experiments, Alós-Ferrer demonstrated that common voting methods often promote selfish decisions. Alternative models, on the other hand, enable fairer, compromise-orientated and more efficient results.

The event offered not only students but also interested laypeople an exciting insight into economic psychology research, while at the same time emphasising the social relevance of this work, particularly with regard to current political developments. In the end, one thing became clear: in the future, it will become increasingly important to find alternatives to existing processes of voting decisions.

You can watch the lecture here:

With the ‘Internationale Forscher*innen’ event series, FERNFH presents current research findings from the fields of its study programs to a broad audience. International researchers report on their research topics, their social relevance and concrete applications – making their findings understandable and accessible to students, graduates, employees and other interested parties.

The series is conceived and moderated by Eva Hofmann, Principal Investigator at FERNFH and Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP).

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