My research lies at the intersection of behavioral economics, psychology, data science, and communication science. Employing a diverse array of methods including laboratory and online experiments, surveys, machine learning and natural language processing, I explore the complexities of human decision-making and communication processes at the individual, group, and organizational level.
In general, my research interests are:
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Behavior and Decision-Making under Uncertainty
- Prosocial Behavior and Cooperation
- Participative Pricing Mechanisms, such as Pay-What-You-Want
- Data Science including Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
- Communication Science and Journalism Research
- Resilience
- Framing Effects
- Social Norms
- Interpersonal Closeness
- Audience Effect and Social Image Concerns
- Design of Climate Change Negotiations
Publications
- forthcoming: Hofmann, Elisa: Pay-What-You-Want als Preismodell für Kulturbetriebe. Handbuch Kulturmanagement, Vol. 88.
- 2024: Gröschke, Daniela, Elisa Hofmann, Nadine D. Müller, and Judith Wolf: Measuring hospital resilience before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Z’GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl (Journal of Social Economy and Social Welfare). Vol. 47, Issue 1, 29 – 61.
- 2023: Hofmann, Elisa, Deliah Bolesta, and Aya Adra: Immorality Judgments and Framing Effects in Voluntary Payment Settings. Jena Economic Research Papers 2023-10, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- 2022: Hofmann, Elisa, Lucas Kyriacou, and Klaus M. Schmidt: A Model United Nations Experiment on Climate Negotiations (replication data). Version: 1. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics).
- 2022: Hofmann, Elisa, Lucas Kyriacou, and Klaus M. Schmidt: A Model United Nations Experiment on Climate Negotiations. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics). Vol. 243, No. 5, 543 – 566.
- 2022: Gröschke, Daniela, Elisa Hofmann, Nadine D. Müller, and Judith Wolf: Individual and organizational resilience – Insights from health care providers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 13, 965380.
- 2021: Müller, Nadine D., Judith Wolf, Elisa Hofmann, and Daniela Gröschke: Integratives Konzept zur ganzheitlichen Förderung von Resilienz in Krankenhäusern. Jena Studies in Intercultural Communication and Interactions, 2021/03, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- 2021: Hofmann, Elisa, Michael E. Fiagbenu, Asri Özgümüs, Amir M. Tahamtan, and Tobias Regner: Who is watching me? Disentangling audience and interpersonal closeness effects in a Pay-What-You-Want context. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Vol. 90, 101631.
- 2020: Hofmann, Elisa: The power of close relationships and audiences: Interpersonal closeness and payment observability as determinants of voluntary payments. Jena Economic Research Papers 2020-016, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- 2016: Hofmann, Elisa: Zahl doch einfach, was du willst! Warum sich Pay-What-You-Want für deutsche Kinos lohnt. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8288-3799-7
Work in Progress
- Evaluating the Methodological Robustness of Social Norm Measurements (with Deliah Bolesta) [Working Paper coming soon]
- A Natural Language Processing Approach to Understand Strategic Avoidance of Pay-What-You-Want Schemes [Working Paper coming soon]
- Unmasking Disinformation: Applying Machine Learning to Detect Fake News Articles [Data Analysis Ongoing]
- Pay-What-You-Want and Uncertainty (with Tobias Regner) [Data Analysis Ongoing]
- How Framing of Climate Change Communication Affects Risk Perceptions [Planning the Experiments]