About
Jan Potters is a Full Professor of Economics at Tilburg University's Department of Economics and a Fellow of CentER. He is affiliated with the Tilburg Law and Economic Center (TILEC) and the CentER Lab. His research focuses on experimental economics, exploring behavioral economics, game theory, industrial organization, and public economics. He teaches courses such as Experimental and Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Economics at CentER.
Key research areas include public goods, strategic delegation, and intergroup relations. Recent studies investigate delegation's impact on responsibility attribution and the effects of cooperative contact on discrimination. He has supervised 20 academic works and contributed to 137 research outputs since 1989.
Awarded the Akademie Onderzoeker (1997), Potters has editorial roles at journals like the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Economist-Netherlands. He has led projects such as 'The Evolution of Exchange Networks' (2004–2008) and co-authored datasets on topics like social information and cheating behavior.
