The ERC MOREV is about Motivated Reading of Evidence or why and how individuals sometimes read evidence in the way they "prefer" ?
Start date: February 2020. End date: January 2026.
You can get an idea of the project on the Sciences Po website : https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/when-the-truth-is-inconvenient-or-motivating-reading-of-information/?lang=en
CNRS also mentions it: https://inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/jeanne-hagenbach-0
In the ERC team, I was lucky to have
Charlotte Saucet, a post-doctoral researcher (2020-2021) with expertise in experimental economics (motivated beliefs, selective memory)
Eugenio Verrina, a post-doctoral researcher (2023-2024) with expertise in experimental economics (social norms, motivated reasoning)
Victor Augias, a PhD student developing theoretical models at the frontier of microeconomic theory and behavioral economics (at the University of Bonn from September 2023 onwards)
Juan Ivars, a PhD student working on behavioral economics and contrat theory
Outputs of the ERC team members
Strategic Information Disclosure to Classification Algorithms: An Experiment, J. Hagenbach and A. Salas, Experimental Economics, 2025.
Persuading a Motivated Thinker, Victor Augias and Daniel Barreto, working paper 2024.
The Motivated Memory of Noise, J. Hagenbach, N. Jacquemet and P. Sternal, Games and Economic Behavior, 2025.
Competition, Cooperation and Motivated Social Perceptions, J. Hagenbach and R. Kranton, Economic Journal, 2025.
Motivated Skepticism, J. Hagenbach and C. Saucet, Review of Economic Studies, 2025.
Selective Memory of a Psychological Agent, J. Hagenbach and F. Koessler, European Economic Review, 2022.
Unethical Amnesia Responds more to Instrumental than to Hedonic Values, F. Galeotti, C. Saucet, M. Villeval, PNAS, 2020.
Cheap Talk with Coarse Understanding, J. Hagenbach and F. Koessler, Games and Economic Behavior, 2020.
Workshops: with Yves le Yaouanq, we launched the yearly Parisian Behavioral Economics Symposium, with the idea to bring together behavioral economists from the Paris area.