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“I was in love with Mathemathics and I am interested in people. I do Experimental Economics! By combining Mathematics and Psychology, this branch of Economics studies Homo Sapiens and not Homo Economicus. I work on unconfirmed common knowledge. It involves …my discovering of what you think I am thinking about you. We stabilize our ideas when we interact with others. Our research applies to decision-making in interaction: when we manage a team or choose a product in the supermarket... We invent a game and “actual” people come to play it in the lab. They are paid, according to their performance. This allows us to identify their beliefs and allows them to be involved in the game.

I was awarded the Pedagogical Innovation Prize in 2009 because innovation is needed in order to transmit to students exactly what we do in research . All my classes are based on my research. My students build research projects they can test with actual individuals. Afterwards, they interpret the results and make recommendations. They are really involved, they are budding researchers. All our work is about mistakes people make in decision making, and how we can use these mistakes instead of trying to eliminate them. It is always amusing, we find unexpected things, out of the ordinary, that go against normal intuition. They find fun in the class, they invent games, they play and test them and these become lessons well learned.”

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