Projects Overview

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Matthias Unfried

2025-06

Can sustainable packaging boost product quality perceptions?

2025-06

The market share of sustainable alternatives often lags miles behind suppliers’ expectations.

NIM INSIGHTS Research Magazine

2024-10

How can marketing support and encourage environmentally conscious choices among consumers?

Other Publications

2024-10

Debias by Design is a systematic guide to the most frequent and impactful decision-making mistakes in management and how to prevent them.

2024-08

Does consumers’ trust in sustainability claims bridge the attitude-behavior gap?

NIM Working Paper Series

2024-08

Market disruptions can cause decision-makers to resist innovation due to distorted risk perception and regret.

2024-08

Does a fit of message, image and consumer's regulatory focus increas pro-environmental market decisions?

2024-08

The explosion of ideas through crowdsourcing and generative AI offers immense innovation potential.

Peer-reviewed

2023-11

We study AI adoption of crowd innovators. We find that adoption increases over time and that sharing success stories accelerates adoption.

2023-08

What factors influence the decision to innovate the business model and are there any systematic biases?

Peer-reviewed

2023-05

We investigate how social cues, used to anthropomorphize assistance systems, like conversational agents, influences the behavior of users.

2022-12

In this project, we develop an test so-called "social norm nudges" to promote sustainable consumer behavior.

2022-12

Artificial intelligence and intelligent algorithms are increasingly able to assist or even take over tasks from human decision makers.

2022-10

Digital technologies are a central part of our daily lives. How important they have become was demonstrated in October 2021 when the ...

Peer-reviewed

2022-07

Many individuals encounter algorithmic decision-making agents with algorithm aversion – the irrational discounting of superior ...

2022-06

Nowadays, offers like price qoutes or settlement offers are quite often made by an algorithm rather than a human. But do humans perceive ...

2022-06

Chatbots are supposed to help consumers and give decision support. Their design and behavior becomes more and more human-like.

NIM Research Report

2021-11

What determines the acceptance of algorithms, and which factors can influence the acceptance? In order to answer that research question, we...

Peer-reviewed

2021-05

The development of an approach for appraisal inference from automatically detected Action Unit intensities in recordings of human faces.

Peer-reviewed

2021-01

We empirically tested the relationship between emotion expression, inferences, and facial expressions.

2020-11

Emotional arousal has been linked to the motivation to socially share information with others and can reliably be detected in the voice.

NIM Working Paper Series

2020-01

In educational psychology, previous research has shown a positive association between confusion and cognitive performance, which has been...

Peer-reviewed

2019-03

We empirically investigate the facial action unit configurations that are used by actors to convey specific emotions.

2019-01

What is the impact of confusion on performance and quality in decision-making?

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