Žiga Mekiš Recek
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
- Music and Audio Processing
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Gender and Technology in Education
University of Ljubljana
2021-2023
Intuition often guides our thinking effectively, but it can also lead to consequential reasoning errors, underpinning poor decisions and biased judgments. Little is known about how people globally self-correct such intuitive errors what enhances their correction. Defying prevailing models of reasoning, recent research suggests that spontaneously correct only a few during deliberation; however, enhancing error monitoring motivating further effort should increase Here, we study whether these...
Abstract While economic inequality continues to rise within countries, efforts address it have been largely ineffective, particularly those involving behavioral approaches. It is often implied but not tested that choice patterns among low-income individuals may be a factor impeding interventions aimed at improving upward mobility. To test this, we assessed rates of ten cognitive biases across nearly 5000 participants from 27 countries. Our analyses were primarily focused on 1458 either...
Music is an integral part of our everyday lives.Through continuous exposure to a particular music style, individual implicitly learns the laws music, including typical progression chords that accompany leading melody.Previous research has shown chord order in compositions perceived as expected and satisfying, whereas violations progressions are unexpected unsatisfying.In this paper, we investigated how implicit musical knowledge influences satisfaction during listening by taking into account...
This project will use secondary data analysis to explore financial behaviors and economic inequality globally. We investigate the patterns predictors of positive deviance across within 60 countries. Using this framework, we aim better understand what incremental or individual factors might form basis more effective interventions reduce inequality.
While economic inequality continues to rise within countries, efforts address it have been largely ineffective, particularly those involving behavioral approaches. It is often implied but not tested that patterns among low-income individuals may be a factor impeding interventions aimed at improving upward mobility. To test this, we assessed rates of ten cognitive biases across nearly 5,000 participants from 27 comparing between adults and had overcome financial disadvantages as children,...