Max Planck Institute of Economics

	Fabian Winter
	Research Fellow
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Minerva Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Education

In 2002, I started my academic education at Hamburg University, where I studied Sociology as major and economics, political sciences and social- and economic history as minors. I went to Leipzig University in 2003 and changed my minor subjects to Philosophy and Logic & Philosophy of Science. In Leipzig I got in touch with experimental methods in the social sciences and the rational choice approach, when attending courses of Prof. Voss and Prof. Opp. I see my studies in formal logic (Prof. Meggle and Prof. Gottwald) as helpful for a formal and rigorous analysis of sociological questions. From 2005 to 2008 I worked as a student assistant, mainly in experimental sociology (programming and conducting experiments, recruitment) and as a student lecturer. From 2009 to 2011, I have been part of the IMPRS Uncertainty, where I did my PhD with a work on normative conflicts. Since 2011, I am a Research Fellow in the Minerva Group at the MPI in Jena.

You will find my CV here.

Research Interests

Though I have my educational training mainly in Sociology, I consider myself more a social scientist in a broader sense, with strong interests in Economics, Social Psychology, Philosophy and Political Science. My research interest include, among others, the relations between social norms and conflicts, the emergence of trust, signaling theory, network theory, or the wisdom of the crowds. I am interested in applying game theory to develop experiments and to utilize the data to build stronger, more appropriate models of human interaction.

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals:

A Sociological Perspective on Measuring Social Norms by Means of Strategy Method Experiments, Social Science Research, 2010, 39, 1181 - 1194 (together with H. Rauhut) bibtex
How norms can generate conflict: An experiment on the failure of cooperative micro-motives on the macro-level, forthcoming in Social Forces (together with H. Rauhut and D. Helbing) bibtex
This paper won the Anatol-Rapoport Prize of the German Sociological Association's section "Modeling and Simulation" (DGS ModSim). The prize-winning version can be found here

Contributions to edited books:

On the Validity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences. The Example of Crime and Punishment. In: Bernhard Kittel, Wolfgang Luhan and Rebecca Morton (eds.): Experimental Political Science. Practice and Principles. Palgrave Research Methods Series, forthcoming (with Heiko Rauhut)

Working Papers:

The emergence of norms from conflicts over just distributions (with Luis Miller and Heiko Rauhut) bibtex
Asymmetric incentives hinder the emergence of norms in the Battle of the Prisoner's Dilemma

Work in Progress

Allein gegen Alle: Ein empirischer Test der Hypothese der "Weisheit der Vielen" anhand einer klassischen Radioshow.
Sorting via Screening versus Signaling -- A Theoretical and Experimental Comparison (together with Werner Güth, MPI of Economics (Jena) and Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zürich)
The Psychological Consequences of Money: Two Replications and Four Extensions (together with Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zürich)
You are who your Friends are -- A Study in Trust and Homophily (together with Mitesh Kataria, MPI of Economics (Jena))
Hostage Posting as a Mechanism to Signal Trust: An Experimental Study on the Case of Vendetta Punishment in Networks (together with Mitesh Kataria, MPI of Economics (Jena))

Teaching

2012 (Summer Term)	Applied Decision Theory, Bayreuth University
	(B.A.-Level)	(download Syllabus)
		(download material, zip)

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