Bence Bago

Bence Bago is a student researcher at ImpLab Association.

Education

 * 2010-2013 Psychology Ba, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2013- Psychological Research Msc, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Scientific Interest

 * Intuition, biased decision-making, decision improvement techniques
 * Analogical thinking
 * Logic and probabilities in human reasoning and decision making

Work Experience

 * 2012-2013   Research Assistant, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2012-2013   Demonstrator; Department of Affective Psychology, ELTE, Hungary

Affiliations

 * 2011-      Member of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association
 * 2011-2013  Member of Illyes Sandor for Advanced Studies
 * 2012-2013  Director of Finance - Illyes Sandor College for Advanced Studies
 * 2013-      Member of Cognitive Science Society
 * 2013-      Member of Society for Judgement and Decision Making

Skills & Experience

 * organising: Discussion Seminars, Courses, Trainings
 * 1 year experience organising public psychological conference;
 * Half year experience organising Hungarian Student Conference;
 * Designing experiments, recruiting participants;
 * Multivariate statistical analysis (SPSS);
 * Webpage editing (LimeSurvey, wiki).
 * Giving lectures on statistics for psychology BA students
 * 2011-    Research on biased decision making and debiasing
 * 2011-2013 Research in sport psychology
 * 2012-2013 Research in biased decision making in team-sports.
 * Participant in the European Summer School organised by European Federation of Psychological Students Association
 * 2013 Participant in the Junior Researcher Program, University of Cambridge

Awards

 * Scholarship of the Psychology Faculty, ELTE, 2011,2012,2013
 * Sandor Illyes Award for Excellence, 2012
 * Tata Sport Award, 2007, 2008, 2009
 * Fencing medals:
 * Hungarian National Cadet Team Championship: 2nd Place, 2007
 * International Team Championship: 2nd Place, Sieana, Italy 2005
 * Best Poster Presentation, 2012 Illyes Days, Hungary
 * Hungarian Student Conference, Institutional round: 1st Place, 2012
 * Hungarian Student Conference, National Round: 1st Place, 2013

Articles:

 * Aczel, B., Bago, B., Foldes, A. (2012). Is there evidence for automatic imitation in a strategic context? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279(1741), 3231-3233. ( Impact factor: 5.415)''


 * Correia, V., Winders, S. J., Doyle, N., Bago, B., Foldes, A., Pesout, O. (2013) Do Basketball Players Rely on Previous Observations of Opponents or Decide Based on On-going Interaction? Journal of European Psychology Students, First Work in Progress Special Edition. 1(1) 33-39.

Presentations:

 * Aczel, B., Bago, B., Foldes, A., & Szollosi, A. (2013). Measuring individual differences in cognitive biases. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 3865). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.


 * Bago, B., Foldes, A., & Aczel, B. (2012). Is human imitative behaviour automatic? In A. Bröder, E. Erdfelder, B. E. Hilbig, T. Meiser, R. Pohlig, & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Abstracts of the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. (pp. 248–249). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.


 * Bago, B., Foldes, A., (2012). Analogical intervention’s impact on decisional biases. In Lajos Kardos Psychological Competition.


 * Bago, B., Vaczi, V., Szabo, G. (2012). Why do athletes quit fencing? - A narrative psychological approach. In XX. International Congress on Sport Sciences for Students.


 * Bago, B., Nemeth, L., Vaczi V., Kende S. (2012) Measuring Social Representation: have attitudes, stereotypes and knowledge an impact on sport-choosing behaviour. In Hungarian Student Conference, Institutional Round.


 * Bago, B., Vaczi V., Szabo, G. (2012) Reasons and predictors of Fencer’s Dropout – a Narrative Psychological Approach. In Hungarian Student Conference, Institutional Round.


 * Bago, B., Vaczi V., Szabo, G. (2013) Reasons and predictors of Fencer’s Dropout – a Narrative Psychological Approach. In Hungarian Student Conference, National Round.


 * Correaia, V., Bago, B., Doyle, N., Foldes. A., Winders, S., J. (2013) Do Basketball Players Rely on Previous Observations of Opponents or Decide Based on On-going Interaction? Paper Presented at the 27th EFPSA Congress. April 21th to 28th 2013, Ozdere, Izmir, Turkey.


 * Correaia, V., Bago, B., Doyle, N., Foldes. A., Winders, S., J. (2013) Do Basketball Players Rely on Previous Observations of Opponents or Decide Based on On-going Interaction? Paper Presented at the Junior Researcher Programme Conference. August 15th to 16th 2013, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.


 * Correaia, V., Bago, B., Doyle, N., Foldes. A., Winders, S., J. (2013) Do Basketball Players Rely on Previous Observations of Opponents or Decide Based on On-going Interaction? Paper Presented at the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. August 22th to 23th 2013, Trinity College, Dublin.


 * Foldes, A., Bago, B., Szollosi, A., Racz, Gy., (2012) Measuring Cognitive Biases. In Hungarian Student Conference, Institutional Round.


 * Foldes, A., Bago, B., Szollosi, A., Racz, Gy., (2013) Measuring Cognitive Biases. In Hungarian Student Conference, National Round.


 * Foldes, A., Bago, B., Lukács, B., Aczel, B., (2012). Do you trust your gut feelings? Put your intuition to the test! Researchers' night, Budapest, Hungary


 * Foldes, A., Lukács, B., Bago, B., Aczel, B., (2011). Do you trust your gut feelings? Put your intuition to the test! Researchers' night, Budapest, Hungary


 * Szollosi, A., Bago, B., Foldes, A., & Aczel, B. (2013). Gender Differences in Decision Biases. Paper presented at the 24th Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference. August 18th to 22th 2013, IESE Business School, Barcelona.

Collaborators

 * Balazs Aczel


 * Bence Lukacs


 * Andrei Foldes


 * Aba Szollosi

Hobby

 * I have been involved in national and international fencing competitions for 10 years.
 * I have also been a judge in fencing competitions.
 * I love hiking, and I have organised many trips.