Division 9: Economic Psychology
Welcome to Division 9!
Economic Psychology promotes and discusses research, as well as policy making, on the interface of psychology and economics including topics such as money management, spending, saving and credit use and debts as well as financial and psychological preparation for retirement, money and inflation, felt inflation and consumer spending, and contra-productivity such as tax non-compliance, shadow economy and fraud.
Division 9 Board Members
President: Erik Hoelzl
President-Elect: Edoardo Lozza
Past President: Tomasz Zaleskiewicz
Honorary Secretary: Agata Gasiorowska
Christine Roland-Lévy Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Applied Economic Psychology
The "Christine Roland-Lévy Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Applied Economic Psychology" aims to recognize and reward research excellence among early career scholars in the field of Applied Economic Psychology. It will be awarded to a recently completed dissertation (since 2021) with a respective topical focus, preferably including international and/or cross-national comparisons.
The award will be delivered in connection with the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) in Florence, Italy, July 21-25, 2026. The selected awardee is expected to attend this ICAP conference and to give an oral presentation on their dissertation.
Nomination Process
An Award Committee will evaluate the submitted applications. The awardee will be informed by Mid-December in order to plan their conference participation.
All applicants are encouraged to consider joining IAAP given the many benefits this confers. IAAP Benefits Overview.
To apply for this award, please fill in the application form and send it together with your PhD certificate and an English-language version of the abstract of your dissertation – all in pdf format - to hoelzl@wiso.uni-koeln.de by October 31, 2025.
Resources
September 2018 Newsletter
Published: 2018-09-27Download newsletter (PDF 80 kB)
October 2017 Newsletter
Published: 2017-10-05Download newsletter (PDF 21 kB)
January 2017 Newsletter
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March 2016 Newsletter
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Other associations dealing with topics related to economic psychology
- Association for Consumer Research (ACR)
- European Association for Decision Making (EADM)
- International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP)
- International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)
- Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE)
- Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP)
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)