On 21^st July, 2019, International Workshop on Brain and Managerial Decision Making hosted by the Neurological Laboratory of School of Management, was successfully held at the Zijingang Campus. This international seminar invited outstanding scholars and doctoral students from Ohio State University in the United States, Dusseldorf University in Germany, Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University and other famous universities at home and abroad to share the latest research in the field, and to discuss on relevant hotspots and future research directions.

Professor Guo Liang from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School shared a study entitled “Endogenous deliberation and the anchoring of economic valuation”. Aiming at the “Anchoring Effect”, a decision model based on endogenous thoughtful mechanism is constructed. Then, Professor Li Jian from Peking University shared a study entitled “Computational and neural instantiations of mental accounting”. Professor Rosemarie Nagel of Pompeu Fabra University in Spain shared his researches on the game of the Keynesian beauty contest, summarizing the learning behavior and reasoning behavior of people in strategic decision-making. Professor Zhang Xing from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea shared a study entitled “How chatbot influences trust in human-AI interaction”, he discovered that the robot’s intelligence system systematically affects people’s trust in the machine by manipulating the robot’s dialogue ability. Professor Ian Krajbich from Ohio State University shared a study entitled “Decomposing preferences with the drift diffusion model”, suggesting that people’s response bias, drift bias and magnitude bias can be manipulated through different settings in the experiment. Professor Tobias Kalenscher of the University of Dusseldorf shared “To give or not to give – framing effects boost generosity towards strangers during social discounting”. He found that the frame effect affects people’s generosity level, and even affects the strangers far away from the society.

More than 50 people attended the international seminar, including all the staffs from the Neurology Management Laboratory, and teachers and students from relevant universities in China. Attendees discussed the frontier research, new problems and new challenges in the field of brain and management decision making. It has positive significance for promoting the international academic exchange of the neuroscience laboratory of Zhejiang University and further promoting the research in the field of neuro-management.