Linda Dezso

Linda Dezső (1978) works at the University of Vienna and she is a vice-president of the ImpLab Association.

Special Interest

 * Behavioral economics
 * Intertemporal choice
 * The impact of emotions and memory on decision-making and on negotiation,
 * Household money management

Here is a video of an interview (in Hungarian) outlining my doctoral research, during my Fulbright Scholarship.

Influence
George Loewenstein Aniko Konya

Education
''Dissertation Working Title: The pernicious role of history on bargaining and on negotiation Specialization: Cognitive and Experimental Psychology and Decision Sciences
 * 2011 Dec - Predoc at University of Vienna, Department of Psychology,
 * Supervisor: George Loewenstein, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
 * Expected submission: 2012 Spring''
 * 2010 Sept - 2011 Dec - Visiting Student Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
 * 2007 - 2010 Sept. - PhD student at the University of Szeged, Department of Economics
 * 1999-2005 MA in Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Eotvos Lorand Budapest


 * 1997-1999 Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Eotvos Lorand Budapest

Grants and Awards

 * 2011 - Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
 * 2010 /2011- Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
 * 2009 - ‘Talent Prize for doctoral students’ at the University of Szeged, Hungary
 * 2009 - IAREP/SABE Summer School in Psychological Economics and Economic Psychology in Trento, Italy
 * 2007 – 2010- State scholarship for doctoral students
 * 2002 - 1st prize at the ELTE Students’ Scientific Scholarship Award’
 * 2001 - 6 weeks field trip at the Psychiatry Department of the Donnau Klinikum Maria Gugging in Vienna
 * 2001 - Student Scientific Competition

Affiliations

 * International Association on Research in Economic Psychology (www.iarep.org)
 * Hungarian Psychological Association (www.mpt.hu)

Publications

 * Bozoki, S., Dezso, L., Poesz, A., and Temesi, J. (2013). Analysis of Pairwise Comparision Matrices: An Empirical Research. (forthcoming) Annals of Operations Research.
 * Dezso, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2012). Lenders’ Blind Trust and Borrowers’ Blind Spots: A Descriptive Investigation of Personal Loans. Journal of Economic Psychology 33, 996–1011
 * Dezso, L., and Kirchler, E. (2012). Loving you from your First Cents and Leaving you with our Debts: Money management in the Household. In M. Eysenck and S. Bauer (eds) (forthcoming) Psychology of Emotions.
 * Bozoki, S., Dezso, L., Poesz, A., and Temesi, J. (2011) Pairwise Comparison Matrices: An Empirical Research. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Multicriteria Decision Making. Online Proceedings: ISSN 1556-8296.
 * Pajkossy, P., Dezső L. and Zoltay-Paprika, Z. (2009) The Opposite Effect of Trait and State Anxiety on Iowa Gambling Task. Learning & Perception 2, 279-295.
 * Rózsa, S., Kő, N., Somogyi, E., Faludi, G., Dezső, L., Degrell, I., Kállai J., Osváth, A., Trixler, M., Bánki, M. Cs. (2004) Measuring Personality Disorders with Dimensional models: Clinical Application of Temperament and Character Inventory (in Hungarian). Psychiatria Hungarica, 19, 25-44.
 * Rózsa, S., Kő, N., Komlósi, A., Somogyi, E., Dezső, L., Kállai, J., Osváth, A., Bánki, M. Cs. (2004). Psychobiological Model of Personality: Experiences with Temperament and Character Inventory in Hungary (in Hungarian). Pszichológia 24, 283-304.

Presentations & Posters

 * Dezso, L. and Loewenstein, G. (2012). Lenders’ Blind Trust and Borrowers’ Blind Spots: A Descriptive Investigation of Personal Loans. Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Meeting, 2012.
 * Bozoki, S., Dezso, L., Poesz, A., and Temesi, J. (2011) Pairwise Comparison Matrices: An Empirical Research. ISAHP (11th International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process), June, 2011.
 * Bozóki, S., Dezső, L., Poesz, A. and Temesi, J. (2010) Testing some properties of pair-wise comparison matrices. Decision Sciences Institute 41st Annual Meeting, San Diego.
 * Szászi, B., Dezső L. and Neszveda, G. (2010) The Opposite Pattern of predicting Future Utility in Younger and Older children. An empirical study on projection bias in children aged 8 to 18. A boat trip through economic change. IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference Proceedings.ISBN 978-3-89967-651-8
 * Neszveda, G., Dezső, L. and Szászi, B. (2010) Proposing a Linear structure of the Cognitive Mechanism Behind Hyperbolic Discounting. Analysis and Generalization of Empirical Studies. A boat trip through economic change. IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference ISBN 978-3-89967-651-8 Proceedings.
 * Dezső, L., Jakkel K. and Kovács, P. (2009) Discounting Under Stress: An experimental Study with Revised Tatiana-design. Challenges for Analysis of the Economy, the Businesses, and Social Progress International Scientific Conference Proceedings.
 * Selei, A., Dezső L. (2009) Investigating attitudes towards risk by manipulating individual’s wealth level: An experimental Study. AOW 2009, Conference Proceedings, Vienna.
 * Dezső L., Neszveda G. (2009) Intertemporal discounting under stress: An experimental study IAREP/SABE 2009, Conference Proceedings, Canada.
 * Dezső, L. (2008) First-glance on „Tatiana-design” PhD Conference, Szeged.
 * Dezső, L. (2006) Modeling intentional and automatic inhibition in PTSD and OCD. Presentation. First International Implicit Laboratory Workshop, Budapest.
 * Dezső, L., Racsmány M. (2006) Intentional and automatic memory inhibition in PTSD and OCD (in Hungarian). Poster. Biennale Conference of the Association of Hungarian Psychologists, Budapest.

Nonacademic interest
triathlon, theater, fine arts