
BeSS

Research Fellows

Research Fellows of the D-Lab are CSIC researchers workig at the Institute for Public Goods & Policies (IPP) in areas connected to the experimental study of inequality and discrmination. All Research Fellows at the D-Lab are members of the Behavioral Social Sciences research group (BeSS) at the IPP.

Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea (PhD in Sociology, University of Cologne, 2019) is Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods & Policies, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC). Previously she was a senior research fellow at Mannheim University and at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Germany. Her research focuses on conditions under which social norms change and emerge, especially social norms stigmatizing the overt expression of prejudice, such as racism, xenophobia, or sexism. She also investigates the normative roots of political preferences and behavior. She uses a wide range of experimental and quasi-experimental methods, including original lab-in-the-field online experiments, but also survey and lab experiments. Her work has been published in the European Sociological Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and Social Science Research. ...

Francisco Herreros (PhD Political Science, UCM-Juan March Institute, 2002) is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. He has been Fernard Braudel Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence), Santander Fellow at St. Antony’s College and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (University of Oxford). His research interest include trust and social capital, especially the role of institutions in the development of interpersonal trust, and political violence. He has published, amongst others, in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Rationality and Society, Political Studies, Politics and Society, Explorations in Economic History and Economic History Review; and he is the author of The Problem of Forming Social Capital: Why Trust? (Palgrave, 2008).
Tarek Jaber-Lopez (PhD in Economics, Universitat Jaume I, 2015) serves as a research fellow at the Institute of Public Goods & Policies, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC). Formerly, he was Director of LEED (Laboratoire Economie Experimentale de la Defense). His research lies around Behavioral and Experimental Economics, with specific interests encompassing social and antisocial behavior, corruption and (dis)honesty, gender and competition, among other related areas. His work has been published in international journals including, amongst others, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, etc..
