CREED Associate Professor Shaul Shalvi elected to the Young Academy of Europe

26 januari 2016

Shaul Shalvi was recently elected to the Young Academy of Europe based on his leadership in research and contributions to the field of Behavioural Ethics, strengthening the links between psychological and economic science.

The Young Academy of Europe, in partnership with Academia Europaea, is an innovative group of top European young scientists dedicated to impacting European science policy, advocating evidence-based policy, encouraging networking and interdisciplinary exchange within and outside Europe, and communicating scientific ideas to the general public. Shalvi was elected based on his contributions to the Behavioral Ethics field, a field merging theory and methods from economics, psychology, and management science, and devoted to a better understanding of human ethical behavior within and outside organizations. Among the contributions leading to his election were his fruitful collaborations with economics, management scholars, and psychologists; his contribution to the field by editing the Morality and Ethics section in Current Opinion in Psychology, and as Associate Editor in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, publications in journals like Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as PNAS and Science.

Research

Shalvi is currently working on research funded by an ERC Starting grant aimed to understand what is "at the roots of corruption: a behavioral ethics approach". As a YAE member, he seeks to establish a platform at the University of Amsterdan that will bring together European policy makers, practitioners, and scientists to exchange ideas on why corruption emerges and how it could be tackled.

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