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DAAD Scholarship for Project at UC Berkeley

1 November 2024, by Ugur Turhan

Our doctoral candidate, Barbara Oberbauer has received a DAAD-Scholarship for a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley.

Next year, she will work for five months on a project titled “Choice Deferral” with the team of Professor Amitai Shenhav.

The project aims to investigate the reasons why people defer decisions. At the Shenhav Lab, Barbara Oberbauer will have the opportunity to engage with experts in this field and deepen her research experience.

We wish her much success during her stay at UC Berkeley and look forward to the results of her research.

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