Emre Soyer
emr e.soyer @ozyegin.edu.tr
www.emr esoyer .com
Professional
Sept 2012 – Present
Asst. Prof. of Behavioral Science
Ozyegin University (OzU), Faculty of Business, Istanbul, Turkey
Education
2007 – 2012
PhD. in Judgment and Decision Making
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Thesis: Presentation Mode, Experience and Decision Making
2005 – 2007
MSc. in Economics, Finance and Management
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2004 – 2005
MSc. in Economics and Development Economics
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2000 – 2004
BA. in Economics
Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
2002 – 2003
Visiting student in Economics and Business
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
1992 – 2000
Maturitá
Italian High School, Istanbul, Turkey
Interests
Research
Judgment and decision making, experience, probabilistic and statistical
reasoning, pro-social behavior, education
Teaching
Behavioral decision making, creativity & ideation, persuasion & negotiation
Publications
Academic
Hogarth, R. M., Lejarraga, T. & Soyer, E. (in press) The two settings of kind and wicked learning
environments. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Hogarth R. M., & Soyer E. (2015). Communicating forecasts: The simplicity of simulated experience.
Journal of Business Research, 68, 1800-1809
Hogarth R. M., & Soyer E. (2014). Providing information for decision making: Contrasting description
and simulation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Hogarth R. M., Mukherjee, K., & Soyer, E. (2013). Assessing the chances of success: Naïve statistics vs.
kind experience. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39, 14-32.
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2012). The illusion of predictability: How regression results mislead
experts. International Journal of Forecasting, 28, 695-711.
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2011).The size and distribution of donations: Effects of number of
recipients. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 616-628.
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Hogarth, R. M., & Soyer, E. (2011). Sequentially simulated outcomes: Kind experience vs. nontransparent description. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 3, 434-463.
Popular science
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (May 2015). Fooled by Experience. Harvard Business Review, p.72-77.
(hbr.org/2015/05/fooled-by-experience)
Hogarth, R. M., & Soyer, E. (Winter 2015). Simulated experience: Making intuitive sense of big data.
MIT Sloan Management Review, p. 49-54. (sloanreview.mit.edu/x/56215)
Hogarth, R. M., & Soyer, E. (June 2013). A picture’s worth a thousand numbers. Harvard Business Review,
p. 26. (hbr.org/2013/06/a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-numbers/ar/1)
Book chapters
Hogarth R. M., & Soyer, E. (2015). Improving judgments and decisions by experiencing simulated
outcomes. In Wilhelms, E. A., & Reyna, V. F. (Eds.) Neuroeconomics, Judgment, and Decision
Making. Psychology Press.
Comments & reviews
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2015). The golden rule of forecasting: Objections, refinements, and
enhancements” Commentary on “Golden rule of forecasting: Be conservative” by Armstrong,
Green, and Graefe (in press), Journal of Business Research, 68, 1702-1704.
Gonul, S. M., Soyer, E., & Onkal, D. (May 2014). Decision Analysis in Turkey. DAS Today –
INFORMS Newsletter.
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2012). Response to commentaries on “The illusion of predictability: How
regression results mislead experts.” International Journal of Forecasting 28, 719-721.
Non-academic
Soyer, E. (2013 – Present) Harvard Business Review-Turkey Edition blog. Blog about business and
behavior. (hbrturkiye.com/kisi/yazar/emre-soyer)
Soyer, E. (2010 – 2014) Behavior Studio. Blog about judgments and decisions. (behaviorstudio.com)
Soyer, M. U. & Soyer, E. (2014). Geleceği satmak (Selling the future). Harvard Business Review – Turkey
Edition, April Issue, 112-118.
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2013). Daha fazla seçeneğe sahip olmak her zaman iyi değildir (Having
more options is not always better). Harvard Business Review – Turkey Edition, November Issue,
26-27.
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (2012). Belirsizliğin doğası: Siyah kuğular ve sisli mayın tarlaları (The nature
of today’s uncertainty: Black swans and foggy minefields.). Harvard Business Review – Turkey
Edition, November Issue, 23-25.
Soyer, E., & Soyer, M. U. (2012) Song by song. A novel (pending online publication).
Working papers
Soyer, E., & Hogarth, R. M. (revise & resubmit) Learning to predict success in competitions: Experience, framing,
and heuristics.
Cornelissen, G., Karelaia, N., & Soyer, E. Clicktivism or Slacktivism? Impression management and moral
licensing.
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Work in progress
From observation to prediction: Kind and wicked experience (with Tomás Lejarraga and Robin Hogarth)
Games and kind experience (with Johannes Mueller-Trede and Robin Hogarth)
On the ecology of competitive behavior (with Robin Hogarth)
Marketing as a wicked learning environment (with Robin Hogarth)
Kind education: An experience based incentive mechanism
De-framing through simulated experience
Grants & Awards
2015
2008 – 2012
2006 – 2008
2005 – 2006
2004 – 2005
2004
Student Choice Award For Most Favored Faculty – Ozyegin University
FPI Research Grant – Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
PhD Grant – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
MSc. in Economics Scholarship – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Graduate School Scholarship – University of Nottingham
President’s Special Award for “contributing to the university in outstanding
ways while maintaining an excellent academic record” – Koc University
Teaching
Behavioral Decision Making
Executive Education
EMBA
MSc Financial Eng.
MA Entrepreneurship
BA Business Adm.
2012 – present
Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Spring 2013, Fall 2014
Spring 2013
Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
Creativity & Ideation
Executive Education
EMBA
BA Business Adm.
2013 – present
Spring 2014
Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Persuasion & Negotiation
Executive Education
2013 – present
Languages
Human
English, Italian, Spanish, Turkish (Fluent)
German, Catalan (Beginner) – Latin (Translation)
Computer
Stata, Excel VBA, Matlab, R, SPSS, Qualtrics, Adobe Premiere, Logic
Presentations
Soho House Istanbul
TEDx – 2013 October
Don’t be fooled! – Monthly talks on behavioral science (2015)
Filtered reality: The importance of what you don’t see. (youtu.be/Ma7Evwstwg)
2015 April
NIBS 2015, Nottingham
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2015 January
2014 September
2014 July
2014 March
2013 December
2013 August
2013 July
2012 April
2012 March
2012 January
2011 August
2011 January
2010 December
2010 August
2010 April, 2011 May
2010 May
2009 October
IESE Business School, Barcelona
METACOGNITION – Bosphorus University, Istanbul
ISF 2014 – Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Bocconi University & U. of Trento
METU, Bilkent University, TOBB ETU
SPUDM 24 - IESE, Barcelona
EACR - IESE, Barcelona
TeaP 2012 - University of Mannheim
IMEBE 2012 - Universitat Jaume I
Warwick Business School
SPUDM 23 - Kingston University, London
RES 6th PhD Presentation Meeting - City University London
SAEe Madrid and MPI Jena
University of Basel
Barcelona Economics Decision Group
Internal Microeconomics Seminar - UPF
4th Alhambra Experimental Workshop – Granada
Service & memberships
Member of European Association for Decision Making (EADM), Association for Consumer Research
(ACR), International Institute of Forecasters (IIF)
Co-organizer of “When samples are small: Learning and decision making” symposia within 25th
SPUDM Conference, August 2015, Budapest (with Robin Hogarth & Tomás Lejarraga)
Co-organizer of “Improving Judgments and Decisions” symposia within 24th SPUDM Conference,
August 2013, Barcelona (with Johannes Mueller-Trede)
Ad-hoc reviewer for Management Science, Nature Climate Change, International Journal of Forecasting. Journal of
Business Research, Judgment and Decision Making, Turkish Science Council (TUBITAK).
Other Experience
Professional
2015 – Present
Jan – Jun 2012
2008 – 2012
Behavioral Management Consultant, Istanbul, Turkey
Management Consultant at Consultist Barcelona, Spain
Foreign Relations at Modapa, Istanbul, Turkey
Arts and Non-profit
2013 – Present
2010 – Present
2009 – Present
2008 – 2014
2009 – 2010
2007 – 2009
Co-creator of the behavior and psychology blog G--Gap (forthcoming)
Co-creator of the art project ipekHAZ (ipekipek.com)
Co-creator of the literary project Story & Music
Co-founder of the arts platform Soyer & Soyer
Co-founder of the charitable telecommunications project IyiFon
Co-founder of the climate change platform In the Morning of a Day
Music
2011 – Present
2012 – 2014
2009 – 2011
2011 April
2009 September
2000 – 2008
Composer and pianist for ipekHAZ
Bass and piano player in Asmakat at OzU
Bass and keyboard player in Siete Colinas
Concert in Mou-te 2011 competition (with Siete Colinas)
Concert in La Merce Festival, Barcelona (with Siete Colinas)
Bass and keyboard player in Cervus Olympius
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Tennis
2005 June
2004 June
2003 June
2003 March
2002 June
1999 June
Regional Champions (Nottingham University Tennis Team)
University League 3rd place (Koc Univ. Tennis Team - Captain)
Regional Champions (Master Le Club Team – Milan, Italy)
Federation Cup 1st place (Milan, Italy)
University League 1st place (Koc University Tennis Team)
Ranked 5th nationally (under 18, Turkey)
Last update March 2015
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