Carsten Søren Nielsen

Carsten Søren Nielsen serves as an External Lecturer in the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. His academic work centers on unraveling the determinants of human decision-making processes, examining both independent choices and those influenced by social interactions through rigorous behavioral and experimental frameworks.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, University of Copenhagen (awarded June 15, 2011), Dissertation: "Behavioral Game Theory: Unawareness and its Applications"

Research Interests:

Dr. Nielsen's expertise spans Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, and Cognitive Psychology, with specialized focus on salience effects in risky choices, unawareness in strategic interactions, and response-time modeling. His methodology integrates laboratory experiments, eye-tracking technology, and mathematical frameworks to dissect how psychological factors shape economic decisions, particularly examining preference reversals and product valuation mechanisms.

Publication Trends:

His scholarly output reveals a consistent trajectory from theoretical game-theoretic models (2014-2017) toward empirically driven investigations of cognitive mechanisms (2020-2024). Recent publications demonstrate increasing methodological sophistication through eye-tracking and response-time analysis, while maintaining core focus on how salience and unawareness distort rational choice paradigms across experimental economics and psychological domains.

Scientific Awards:

No awards or fellowships are documented in the available profile.

Advising and Grants:

Current documentation does not specify doctoral advisees, research grants, or funded projects.

Labs and Teams:

While affiliated with the Department of Economics, no dedicated research laboratories or collaborative teams are explicitly referenced in the institutional profile.