Balazs Aczel

Balazs Aczel (1979) MA (ELTE, Hungary), PhD (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) is an experimental psychologist, secretary of the ImpLab Association, founder of Expert Intuitions Co.

Education
(thesis: 'Attention and Awareness in Human Learning and Decision Making') (dissertation: Strategy Analysis of Probability Learning.)
 * 2006-2009 PhD, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
 * 2001-2006 MA, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Scientific Interest

 * scientific study of rational and irrational decision making
 * implicit theory of stupidity
 * Intuition, feedback-based decision making, learning environment of biased decisions;
 * Determinants and predictors of hedonic choices;
 * knowledge management, corporate experience management, case-based reasoning;
 * Attention and awareness in human learning and decision making;
 * philosophy of science, education.

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Employment

 * 09.2011 -               Institute of Psychology, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary lecturer
 * 02.2011 - 06.2011       Institute of Psychology, KGRE, Budapest, Hungary lecturer
 * 10.2009 - 09.2010 Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, research associate (research of attention and awareness in word learning)
 * 01.2004 - 06.2004 Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Psychology, Budapest, research assistant (study of executive functions in developmental disorders)
 * 04.2003 - 12.2003 Vadaskert Foundation for Children's Mental Health, Budapest, research assistant (cognitive neuropsychological assessment of OCD, ADHD, TS, ASD)

Affiliations

 * 2011- secretary of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association
 * 2008- member, Experimental Psychology Society
 * 2008- member, The British Psychological Society
 * 2007-2009 visiting researcher, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
 * 2005-2010 president of Implicit Laboratory Scientific Association
 * 2004- member of Link-Group – interdisciplinary network analysing laboratory

Skills & Experience

 * Programming languages: RealBasic, Visual Basic, E-Prime
 * eye-tracking (Tobii)
 * two years work experience in cognitive neuropsychology research (OCD, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, ASD)
 * organising international workshops, grant applications

Awards & Grants

 * Magyary Postdoctoral Scholarship 2012-2014
 * OTKA Research Grant 2012-2014
 * Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, 2007, 2008
 * Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2004, 2005 (top 0.8%)
 * Scientific Research Grant of the Psychology Faculty, ELTE, 2004, 2005

Publications

 * Bago, B., Szollosi, A., Foldes, A., & Aczel, B. (2013). Assessing the effectiveness of an analogical debiasing technique. 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada. (poster)
 * Aczel, B., Bago, B., Foldes, A., & Szollosi, A. (2013). Methodological questions in measuring individual differences in decision biases. 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada. (poster)
 * Laane, K., Aczel, B., Dickinson, A., & Teichmann, M. (2013). Root Causes of Positive Emotion at Work. Research on Emotion in Organizations, 9, 9-22.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Foldes, A., Bago, B., Lukacs, B., Szollosi, A., & Aczel, B. (2013). Measuring cognitive biases. In U. Ansorge, E. Kirchler, C. Lamm, & H. Leder (Eds.), Abstracts of the 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. (p. 83). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.
 * 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.
 * Lukacs, B., Cserep, C. B., Komlos, J., & Aczel, B. (2012). How are expectations updated in the absence of feedback? In A. Bröder, E. Erdfelder, B. E. Hilbig, T. Meiser, R. Pohlig, & D. Stahlberg (Eds.), Abstracts of the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. (p. 195). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.
 * 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.
 * Aczel, B., Lukacs, B., Komlos, J., Aitken, M. (2011). Unconscious intuition or conscious analysis? Critical questions for the Deliberation-without-Attention paradigm. Journal of Judgement and Decision Making, 6(4), 351-358.
 * Brown, J., Aczel, B., Jimenez, L., Kaufman, S. B., & Plaisted Grant, K. (2010). Intact Implicit Learning in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(3), 1789–1812.
 * Balazs Aczel (2008). Managing Intuition I.: Why does intuition need to be educated? Periodicals of Implicit Cognition, 3, 1-11.
 * Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B., Háden G., Orosz G., Ambrus G. G. (2008). A procedurális rendszerek és a mondatmegértés kapcsolata.  In: Gervain Judit, Pléh Csaba (Eds.)     A láthatatlan nyelv. Gondolat.  /chapter on the procedural systems in sentence processing/
 * Balazs Aczel (2007). Nonconscious thinking.  Periodicals of Implicit Cognition. 2, 9-10.
 * Balazs Aczel, Ian McLaren (2007). Analysing Process Interaction. Associative Learning Symposium (XI). 3-5. Apr. 2007. Gregynog, Wales. (poster)
 * Denes Toth, Balazs Aczel (2006). Analyzing Dynamics of Probability Learning. 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 26-29. July 2006. Vancouver, Canada
 * Tárnok Zsanett, Bognár Emese, Farkas Luca, Aczél Balázs, Gádoros Júlia (2006) A végrehajtó funkciók vizsgálata Tourette szindrómában és figyelemhiányos hiperaktivitás zavarban. In: Racsmány Mihály (ed.) Neuropszichológiai diagnosztikai módszerek. Akadémiai kiadó (book chapter)
 * Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B., Háden G., Orosz G., Ambrus G. G. (2005) A procedurális rendszerek és a mondatmegértés kapcsolata. In: Gervain Judit, Pléh Csaba (ed.) A láthatatlan nyelv. Gondolat (book chapter)
 * Aczél Balázs, Gönci Dániel (2005). Unity or Fractionality of Implicit Learning: A Methodological Aspect. In Bara, B. G., Barsalou, L., Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the CogSci2005 - 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 51-56. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ
 * Aczél Balázs, Gönci Dániel, Németh Dezső (2005). Language and learning: alike in nonconsciousness. 13th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 11-14 August 2005. Lund, Sweden
 * Németh D., Gönci D., Aczél B. (2005). The relationship between implicit learning and sentence processing. 14th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. 31st Aug. - 3rd Sept. 2005. Leiden, Holland
 * Háden Gábor Péter, Orosz Gábor, Ambrus Géza Gergely, Gönczi Dániel, Aczél Balázs, Németh Dezső (2004) Az implicit tanulás és nyelvi képességek kapcsolata. Szegedi Pszichológiai Tanulmányok I. 43-69. /Article on the relationship of implicit learning and language skills/
 * Aczél Balázs (2004). A végrehajtó működés károsodásának vizsgálata hiperaktív (ADHD) gyerekeken a Rey-féle komplex ábrateszt segítségével. Tudomány és Lélek VII. 10. 3-29. /Article on the defects of executive function of ADHD children/

Collaborators

 * Jamie Brown
 * Kristjan Laane
 * Csongor Cserep
 * Bence Lukacs
 * Judit Komlos

Hobby

 * fencing
 * genealogy
 * hiking
 * classical music