The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses.
The Uncertainty-School is jointly hosted by:
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
- Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
- Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - Department of Social Psychology
- Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - School of Economics and Business Administration
- Indiana University, Bloomington - Program in Cognitive Science, and Workshop in Political Science and Policy Analysis
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality
In Jena the Uncertainty School is part of the Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change, and in particular cooperating with the International Graduate College Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups. Dynamics of Change in Intergroup Relations and the Graduate College The Economic of Innovative Change.
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- Please download the Poster and the Flyer about the IMPRS Uncertainty
- Guide for Students: We prepared a brochure with handy information on the IMPRS Uncertainty Program and the Max Planck Institute and the city of Jena for you to download
Upcoming Events
- The third thesis workshop will be held at Castle Ringberg. It is scheduled for 15.02.2010 – 19.02.2010. The workshop will give students the opportunity to present the progress of their thesis projects to the IMPRS faculty. Information
- The 4th IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School will be held from July 26. until August 21. 2010 at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena.
Past Events
- The third Topics Workshop of the IMPRS Uncertainty was held in Trento, organized by the Doctoral School of the Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management, University of Trento from 21.09.-24.09.2009. Program
- The third IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School was held from July 26. until August 21. 2009 at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. (Schedule, Courses and Talks, Annual Report)
- The second thesis workshop was at the Friedrich Schiller University, School of Business and Economics in February 2009. The workshop gave students the opportunity to present the progress of their thesis projects to the IMPRS faculty.
- The second IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School was held from July 28. until August 22. 2008 at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena.
- The second topics workshop "Making Decisions in Social Contexts" will be jointly held by the Program in Cognitive Science and the Workshop in Political Science and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington from September 1 till 3, 2008.
- The first thesis workshop was held at the MPI in Bonn from February 19. – 21. 2008. Here students presented the progress of their thesis projects to the IMPRS faculty.
- The first topics workshop "Less is More" on heuristics was held at the MPI in Berlin from December 10. - 12.2007.
- The first IMPRS - Uncertainty Summer School was successfully held from July 30. until August 24. 2007 at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. Schedules, further information and impressions can be found here here.
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