Agne Kajackaite is a behavioral economist and head of research group
“Ethics and Behavioral Economics” at the Berlin Social Science Center. She
has received her PhD from the University of Cologne and before joining the
Berlin Social Center in 2017 she was a PostDoc at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. In her research she aims to understand
unethical behavior, particularly lying behavior, by conducting economic
lab experiments. Further topics in her research are cognitive performance,
gender, incentives, risk preferences, and ignorance. Her research on the
effect of temperature on cognitive performance and gender was covered by
The New York Times, The Time, The Guardian, The Atlantic and The
Washington Post, among others. Agne has received Vladas Jurgutis Award in
2018 and GLL Award for Promoting the Name of Lithuania Globally in 2019.
