International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World

The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses.

The Uncertainty-School is jointly hosted by:

• Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
• Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - Department of Social Psychology
• Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena - School of Economics and Business Administration
• Indiana University, Bloomington - Program in Cognitive Science, and Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality
• University of Trento - Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management, CIFREM
• University of Bonn - Institute of Commercial and Economic Law

In Jena the Uncertainty School is part of the Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change, and in particular cooperating with the International Graduate College Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups. Dynamics of Change in Intergroup Relations and the Graduate College The Economics of Innovative Change.