Guest Lecture Series: Shohei Yamamoto (Rikkyo University)November 5–7, 2026

陳 尚瑜

We are pleased to welcome Shohei Yamamoto, Assistant Professor of Economics at Rikkyo University, Japan, for a series of talks on behavioral economics and AI-assisted research.

His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, particularly time preferences, procrastination, and attention in decision-making.

All interested students and faculty are warmly invited to attend.

  1. Brown Bag Seminar

Attentional Dilution: How Attributes Compete for Weight in Choice

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Time: 15:15–16:15
Venue: SS 515-G

About the Talk

Why do people become more patient when choosing between options that differ in more than just timing?

This talk explores attentional dilution, the idea that an attribute receives less attention when more attributes distinguish the available options. Drawing on cross-cultural experiments, eye-tracking studies, and multi-attribute choice tasks, the talk examines how attention shapes intertemporal decisions and introduces a new experimental approach to measuring this effect.

  1. Interactive Class Talks

How AI Can Support Research: Building Experiments as an AI-Native Team

Two sessions (same content):

Friday, November 6, 2026
Time: 11:20–13:00
Venue: SS 606

Saturday, November 7, 2026
Time: 13:20–15:00
Venue: SS 306

About the Talk

How can researchers use AI effectively while maintaining human oversight?

This interactive session introduces an AI-native approach to research, in which AI assists with literature reviews, experimental design, and implementation, while researchers remain responsible for critical decisions and quality control.

Drawing on the AI-Native Research Team (https://www.ai-native-research.org/), Professor Yamamoto will demonstrate how to develop an economics experiment from a research question to an online pilot study.

Students will then work in groups to evaluate and improve AI-generated research ideas, followed by a live demonstration of building an experiment based on the selected idea.

Please bring a laptop for the hands-on activities.

For further information, please contact Josie Chen at josiechen@ntu.edu.tw.

We look forward to welcoming you to these sessions on behavioral decision-making and the use of AI in economic research!