Emotions are supposed to significantly influence human decision-making in various domains, including bargaining behavior, intertemporal choice, as well as criminal or risky compensatory behavior. In a series of projects, we treat sport as an ‘emotions lab’ in order to study the effects or sport event-related emotional cues on the behavior of fans (like drinking or driving).

Funding / Support: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC number 2064/1 – Project number 390727645. For further information, refer to Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning.

Principal Investigators: Tim Pawlowski, Augustin Kelava

Team members: Lukas Fischer, Michael Nagel

Publications:

• Emotional drinking: surprise, suspense, and alcohol use during soccer matches. Available at SSRN.
• An alternative prior for estimation in high-dimensional settings. Published in Structural Equation Modelling.