Invited Talks
Acceptance of Medical AI and the effect of ChatGPT. Invited talk at the Food and Drug Administration’s Economics Brownbag (invitation by Katherine Toran), 2026.
Patients Sign and Symptoms Reporting: Insights from Behavioral Science. Guest Speaker at the International Sepsis Forum (invitation by Kristina Elizabeth Rudd), Boston, 2024.
Don’t say vegan or plant-based: Focusing on health and sustainability improves choices for food baskets without meat and dairy (job talk; Baruch College, City university of New York), 2023.
Eating Identities and Dietary Behaviors (invitation by Kayla de la Haye at Catalina Island Food Systems ReTreat, Catalina Island, CA, USA), 2022.
The Inverse Relation Between Risks and Benefits: The Impact of Individual Differences in Thinking Styles (invitation by Daniel Västfjäll at Judgment, Emotion, Decision & Intuition (JEDI) Lab, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden), 2022.
Decision-Making and Dual Process Theory: The Context of Medical Decisions (invitation by Bill Padula, Behavioral Science & Policy in Healthcare graduate level course at University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy (2021)
Risk Literacy (invitation by Bill Padula, Behavioral Science & Policy in Healthcare graduate level course at University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy (2021)
Conference Talks
Watch the Label! Consumers’ Understanding, Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Plant-Based Food Products. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2025.
Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine for Cancer Diagnosis. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2025.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”. Labeling interventions to promote food choices without meat and dairy. Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference, Lucca, Italy, 2025.
Environmental concerns matter more than health concerns for not eating red meat: Evidence from a national U.S. survey. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, USA, 2024.
Insights from Judgement and Decision-Making for Climate Change Communications: Symposium, Society for Judgement and Decision Making, New York, NY, 2024. (Panelists: Elke Weber, Ellen Peters, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Patrycja Sleboda)
Don't say "vegan" or "plant-based". Labeling interventions to promote food choices without meat and dairy. APA Division 34's Society for Environmental Population & Conservation Psychology, 2024
Don’t say “vegan”: Using Positive Labels to Promote Food Choices without Meat and Dairy. ICP 2024 – 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2024.
Labelling Interventions to Promote Food Choices without Meat and Dairy: Say “delicious”, “healthy” or “sustainable” but not “vegan” or “plant-based”. Behavioural Transformations, London School of Economics, UK, 2024.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”: Food without meat and dairy is more likely to be chosen when labeled as “healthy” and “sustainable.” Current Innovations in Probability-Based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER), Washington, DC, USA, 2024.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”: Focusing on health and sustainability improves choices for food baskets without meat and dairy. Association for Consumer Research, Seattle, USA, 2023.
Associations of fear and anger with risk perceptions, trust and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: May and December 2020. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2023.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”: Focusing on health and sustainability improves choices for food baskets without meat and dairy. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 2023.
Associations of fear and anger with risk perceptions, trust and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: May and December 2020. European Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden, 2023.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”: Focusing on health and sustainability improves choices for food baskets without meat and dairy. Workshop on Climate and Energy Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2023.
Don’t say “vegan” or “plant-based”: Focusing on health and sustainability improves choices for food baskets without meat and dairy. Wrigley Institute Annual Symposium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 2023.
Concerned, but am I engaged? Identifying predictors of climate action among Americans who perceive climate change to be a high risk (Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA), 2022.
Uncontrolled eating and daily emotions: evidence from an experience sampling study (International Society for Research on Emotion, Los Angeles, CA, USA), 2022.
Uncontrolled eating and daily mood: evidence from an experience sampling study (Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA), 2022.
The inverse relation between risks and benefits: the impact of individual differences in thinking styles (Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2019.
Persuasive messages and attitude change towards genetically modified food (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, London, UK), 2018.
Transitivity of preferences, individual differences in information processing and strategies applied for selection (Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference, Haifa, Israel), 2017.
Transitivity of preferences, individual differences in information processing and strategies applied for selection (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Tel Aviv, Israel), 2017.
This is an important decision! The influence of choice consequences on rational decision and strategies applied for selection (Academic Association of Economic Psychology), 2017.
Rational decisions and strategy selection among multi-attributes options – in light of dual-process theories (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Wageningen, Netherlands), 2016.
Dual process theories, rationality and decision-making strategies (Academic Association of Economic Psychology), 2016.
Rationality – the impact of conflict and context on the decision strategy (Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference, Budapest, Hungary), 2015.
Rationality: compensatory vs. non-compensatory decision strategies (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Sibiu, Romania), 2015.
Rationality, task difficulty and decision strategies (Academic Association of Economic Psychology), 2015
Rationality, consistency and confidence in hard and trivial decisions (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Paris, France), 2014.
Conflict and Decision Strategies (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities), 2014.
Affect and cognition in trivial and hard decisions (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Morrow, Georgia, USA), 2013.
Estimation of Global Warming Probabilities and Socio-economic Beliefs (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities), 2013.
Perception of Risk and Benefit of manmade and natural hazards (Academic Association of Economic Psychology), 2012.
Posters
Racial/Ethnic Variation in Cervical Cancer Screening Adherence Among Sexual and Gender Minorities (LBGTQ+ Cancer Symposium, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, USA), 2022. Best Poster Award.
Acceptability of HPV Self-Sampling for Cervical Cancer Screening in the US: A Systematic Literature Review (Society for Epidemiologic Research, Chicago, IL, USA), 2022.
Persuasive messages and attitude change towards genetically modified food (Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, New Orleans, USA), 2018.
Transitivity of preferences, individual differences in information processing and strategies applied for selection (Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Vancouver, Canada), 2017.
System 2 vs. transitivity of preferences. Rational decisions and strategy selection between multi-attributes options (Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Boston, USA), 2016.
Rationality – the impact of conflict and context on the decision strategy” at Society for Judgement and Decision Making (Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Chicago, USA), 2015.
Inverse relation in perception of dangers and benefits – Affect Heuristic of Cultural Theory of Risk? (International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Wroclaw, Poland), 2012.