The term ‘choice overload’ (sometimes called ‘overchoice’) describes a situation where a person has several different options to choose from, but finds it difficult to make a choice because they feel there are ‘too many’ options.

NIBS research by Professors Chris Starmer, Robin Cubitt and Joerg Weber on this topic has been presentated a various seminars and conferences - as detailed below.

• Symposium at SPUDM 2021, hosted by the University of Warwick online (22-24 August 2021)
• NIBS workshop, Behavioural Science & Market Regulation, hosted by UEA online (September 2020)
• Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (D:TEA) Prospect Theory, HEC Paris online (June 2020)
• University of Loughborough (October 2019)
• University of Konstanz (Departmental Seminar) (January 2019)
• Organisation and Markets Workshop in Dijon (November 2018). A copy of the programme is available online.
• University College Dublin (Departmental Seminar) (November 2018)
• University of Birmingham (Departmental Seminar) (November 2018)
• SABE conference in Middlesex (July 2018)
• ESA in Berlin (June/July 2018)
• IMEBESS, European University Institute, Florence (June 2018)
• FUR conference in York (June 2018)
• NIBS Autumn Workshop (September 2017). 

Professor Chris Starmer, pictured below at the University of Loughborough (Photo Credit: Enrique Fatas).



Work within the NIBS 2 grant period builds on work undertaken during NIBS 1. Research presented during the NIBS 1 grant period is shown below:

• CMU Workshop, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (September 2017)
• University of Rennes (March 2017)
• ESA in Bergen (August/September 2016)
• NIBS Workshop 2015 (September 2015) work by Gerardo Infante