Handbook of Value
Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology
Edited by Tobias Brosch and David Sander
Author Information
Tobias Brosch, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland,David Sander, Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tobias Brosch, born in 1978, studied psychology at the Universities of Trier (Germany) and Canterbury (UK), and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After several years of postdoctoral studies at New York University (USA) he returned to the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva, where he is now Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Lab. His main research and teaching activities concern the influence of values and emotions on decision-making, and how these can be leveraged to promote sustainable behavior.
David Sander, born in 1976, studied mathematics and psychology at the University Rene Descartes (Paris, France), and received a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University Louis Lumiere (Lyon, France). In 2002, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where he is now Full Professor and holds the Chair for Emotion Psychology. His main research and teaching activities concern the mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation and how these mechanisms modulate attention, memory, and decision-making. For this work, he is the recipient of the 2013 National Latsis Prize. David Sander is the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences.
Contributors:
Professor Christine Tappolet - Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal
Dr Mauro Rossi - Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)
Professor Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen - Department of Philosophy, Lund University
Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz - Department of Philosophy, Lund University & Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
Professor E. Tory Higgins - Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Professor Shalom H. Schwartz - Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, & International Laboratory of Socio-cultural Research, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Dr Dino Levy - Recanati Business School & Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Professor Paul Glimcher - Center for Neural Science, New York University
Dr Jorge Moll - IDOR Institute for Research and Education, Rio de Janeiro
Dr Roland Zahn - Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Dr Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza - IDOR Institute for Research and Education, Rio de Janeiro
Professor Diana Boer - Department of Social and Organizational Psychology Institute of Psychology University of Koblenz-Landau
Professor Klaus Boehnke - Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) Jacobs University Bremen
Associate Professor Julien A. Deonna - Department of Philosophy and Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva
Associate Professor Fabrice Teroni - Department of Philosophy and Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva
Associate Professor Christian von Scheve - Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr Peter Sokol-Hessner - Department of Psychology, New York University
Dr Elizabeth A. Phelps - Department of Psychology, New York University
Professor Rajna Gibson - Geneva Finance Research Institute, University of Geneva
Professor Carmen Tanner - Leadership Excellence Center Zeppelin, Zeppelin University, & Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich.
Professor Alexander F. Wagner - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
Dr Gabriela Jiga-Boy - Department of Psychology, Swansea University
Professor Gregory R Maio - Department of Psychology, Cardiff University
Professor Geoff Haddock - Department of Psychology, Cardiff University
Dr Katy Tapper - Department of Psychology, City University London
Dr Dan-Mikael Ellingsen - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Professor Morten Kringelbach - Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University
Dr Siri Leknes - Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
Associate Professor Raffaele Rodogno - Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University
Professor Jerrold Levinson - Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Professor Thomas Dietz - Environmental Science and Policy Program and Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
Professor John T. Jost - Department of Psychology, New York University
Ms Elvira Basevich - Department of Psychology, New York University
Associate Professor Eric S. Dickson - Department of Psychology, New York University
Dr Sharareh Noorbaloochi - Department of Psychology, New York University
Professor Robert C. Roberts - Department of Philosophy, Baylor University
Assistant Professor Adam C. Pelser - Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
Professor Tobias Brosch - Department of Psychology, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva
Professor David Sander - Department of Psychology, and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva