Enrique Fatás (European University in Valencia) is pleased to announce the ninth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) at the European University in Valencia, on the 22nd - 24th May 2025.
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IMEBESS was started as a succession of the International Meeting series on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBESS), and had an inaugural meeting at Nuffield College, University of Oxford in April 2014. Since then, the meeting has occurred annually, at the Institute for Advanced Study at Toulouse in 2015, at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in 2016, at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2017, at the European University Institute in 2018, at the Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, on 2nd - 4th May 2019, at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Lisbon, Portugal, on 18th - 20th May 2023 and the University of Riga, Latvia 23rd - 25th May 2024.
IMEBESS intends to bring together researchers in all areas of the social sciences who are interested in experimental methods. We believe that behavioural economics is increasingly informed by a very diverse range of research traditions. Hence, we are particularly interested in the participation of all social science disciplines with an interest in experimental and behavioural research, including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
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» Registration fee until March 31st, 2025: €370.
» Registration fee starting April 1st, 2025: €425.
» Registration deadline: April 15th, 2025.
» The registration deadline for presenters is March 31st, 2025.
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International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) Code of Conduct
We are committed to providing a welcoming and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion (or lack thereof).
We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, X and other online media. IMEBESS conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the conference organisers.
This code of conduct applies to all participants, including the organizers and applies to all modes of interaction, both in-person and online.
IMEBESS conference participants agree to:
- Be considerate in speech and actions and actively seek to acknowledge and respect the boundaries of fellow attendees.
- Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behaviour and speech. Harassment includes but is not limited to: deliberate intimidation; stalking; unwanted photography or recording; sustained or wilful disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; use of sexual or discriminatory imagery, comments, or jokes; and unwelcome sexual attention. If you feel that someone has harassed you or otherwise treated you inappropriately, please alert any member of the conference team in person.
- Take care of each other. Alert a member of the conference team if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this code of conduct, even if they seem inconsequential.
Code of Conduct violations should be reported to the IMEBESS Ombudsperson Laura Fortunato (laura.fortunato@anthro.ox.ac.uk).
Synthetic Replication Games
The IMEBESS 2025 Synthetic Replication Games is a one-day in-person workshop organised by the Talking to Machines team in the context of a large replication project exploring the potential of large language models (LLMs) to augment human samples in experimental social science. This workshop invites researchers of all backgrounds and career stages to collaborate in adapting experimental studies from top-tier journals into a standardised format and replicate them using a variety of LLMs. The results will be presented in a dedicated round table at IMEBESS 2025, and contributors will be recognised as co-authors on the final publication. Click the button below for further details and the registration form.
Synthetic Replication Games