research

PUBLICATIONS

1. Molnar, A., & Golman, R. (2023).  Impatience for information:  Curiosity is here today, gone tomorrow. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. e2360.

2. Molnar, A., Chaudhry, S. J., & Loewenstein, G. (2023). “It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message!”: Avengers want offenders to understand the reason for revenge.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, 174. 104207.

— Awarded the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2021 IACM conference

3. Molnar, A., Moore, A., Fowler, C., & Wu, G. (2023). Seen and Not Seen: How People Judge Ambiguous Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 66, 141–159.

4. Molnar, A., & Loewenstein, G. (2022). Thoughts and players: An introduction to old and new economic perspectives on beliefs. In J. Musolino, J. Sommer, & P. Hemmer (Eds.). The Cognitive Science of Belief (pp. 321–350). Cambridge University Press

5. Molnar, A., & Loewenstein, G. (2022). Ideologies Are Like Possessions: A commentary on Gries,T., Müller, V., & Jost, J. T. The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice. Psychological Inquiry, 33(2), 84–87.

6. Golman, R., Loewenstein, G., Molnar, A., & Saccardo, S. (2021). The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information. Management Science, 68(9), 6454–6476.

7. VanEpps*, E. M., Molnar*, A., Downs, J. S., & Loewenstein, G. (2021). Choosing the Light Meal: Real-time Aggregation of Calorie Information Reduces Meal Calories. Journal of Marketing Research, 58(5), 948–967. *joint first authors

— Awarded the Best Student Poster Award at the 2019 SJDM conference

8. Molnar, A. (2020). How to implement real-time interaction between participants in online surveys: A practical guide to SMARTRIQS. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16(4), 334–354.

9. Molnar, A. (2019). SMARTRIQS: A Simple Method Allowing Real Time Respondent Interaction in Qualtrics Surveys. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 22, 161–169.

10. Loewenstein, G., & Molnar, A. (2018). The renaissance of belief-based utility in economics. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(3), 166–167.

11. Heintz, C., Karabegovic, M., & Molnar, A. (2016). The co-evolution of honesty and strategic vigilance. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1503.

WORKING PAPERS

• Molnar, A., & Paolacci, G. (2022). (Possibly) ill-gotten gains: Disentangling the effects of competition and uncertainty on cheating. (manuscript under review; working paper available upon request)

• Molnar, A., & Loewenstein, G. (2020). The False and the Furious: People are more disturbed by others' false beliefs than by differences in beliefs. (manuscript under review)

• Molnar, A., & Chaudhry, S. J. (2020).  The lesser of two evils: Explaining a bad choice by revealing the choice set. PsyArXiv.

• Molnar, A., Heintz, C. (2016). Beliefs about people’s prosociality: eliciting predictions in dictator games. CEU Working Papers, Department of Economics, Central European University. 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

• Barriers  to  forgiveness:  We  can’t  forgive those who hold wrong beliefs. (with Nick Epley,  manuscript in preparation)