
NeuroBusiness Conference
September 18th, 2025
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9:30: Registration and gathering + Coffee
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10:00-10:15: Opening remarks:
1. Representative of The City of Dubrovnik
2. Dr. Ivana Pavlić, President of Organizing Committee
3. Dr. Enav Friedmann on behalf of International Journal of Advertising -
10:15-11:00 Keynote speaker-
Prof. Moran Cerf. Columbia University
Title: Using Neuroscince In Business, An Outlook On Future Techniques And Tools -
11:00-12:00: Track 1
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12:00-12:15: Coffee break
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12:15-13:15: Track 2
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13:30-14:30: Lunch
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15:00-16:00 Track 3
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16:00-16:45: Coffee & Roundtables
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18:00 -19:30 Walking tour in Dubrovnik
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20:00: Evening social event-
Traditional dinner
September 19th, 2025
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9:30-10:00: Gathering+ Coffee
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10:00-11:00: Track 4
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11:00-11:30: Coffee break
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11:30-12:30: Track 5
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13:00-14:00: Lunch
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14:15-15:15: Track 6
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15:15-16:00: Special track- I+iMotions
Divya Seernani -
16:00:16:15: Coffee break
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16:30-17:15: Keynote speaker-
Prof. Gidi Nave- Wharton University
Title: Big Biological Data and the New Science of Human Behavioral Diversity -
17:15: Closing remarks
Dr. Barbara Puh and Dr. Merav Weiss Sidi -
18:00: Lecture for Ph.D. students- hybrid mode
Prof. Moran Cerf. Columbia University
Title: Measuring Engagement in Content and how the snake-oil around it, in neuro-marketing
Sessions
Thursday: Track 1: 11.00-12.00
Neuromarketing and Advertising
Chair: Salmi Mohd Isa
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Nik Nur Azhani Anuar, Salmi Mohd Isa:
“BRAINS, BRANDS, AND BEHAVIOR: THE NEUROMARKETING LINK BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND ATTENTION” -
Salmi Mohd Isa, Nur Aliza Azlin Rosli:
“GREEN GAZE: A NEUROMARKETING STUDY ON ECO-TOURISM PURCHASE DECISIONS” -
Anna Tomkova, Robert Stefko, David Misko, Ivana Ondrijova:
“MAPPING CONSUMER ATTENTION: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION OF A SALE FLYER” -
Ivana Ondrijova:
“COMPULSIVE BUYING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EYE-TRACKING RESEARCH”
Thursday: Track 3: 15:00-16:00
Neuroeconomics, Decision-Making, and
Marketing
Chair: Dino Levy
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Alex Genevsky, Lester Tong, Brian Knutson:
“GENERALIZABLE NEUROFORECASTING OF AGGREGATE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR “ -
Dino Levy, Asaf Madar, Tom Zemer, Ido Tavor:
“LATENT DIMENSIONS IN NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS PREDICT CHOICE CONTEXT EFFECTS” -
Valentina Parada, Inbal Gur-Arie, Dino Levy:
“LOW LEVEL VISUAL AND AUDITORY FEATURES PREDICT PREFERENCES OF COMMERCIALS” -
Yanli Wang, Kwok Huen Lee, Zeming Ren, Lexie Lan Huang, Shirley Li, Kimmy Wa Chan:
“NEURAL EVIDENCE OF THE LANGUAGE EFFECT IN CAUSE-RELATED MARKETING: AN FMRI STUDY” -
Nikki Leeuwis, Tom van Bommel:
“I’VE SEEN IT ON THE RADIO: VISUAL TRANSFER EFFECTS IN CROSS-MEDIA ADVERTISING”
Friday: Track 5: 11:30-12:30
Consumer Attention and Neurofinance
Chair: Jorge Matute Vallejo
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Jorge Matute Vallejo, Felix Friederich, Jan-Hinrich Meyer, Michelle Schwarz, Ni Ying:
“ART 2.0: HOW FEAR OF MISSING OUT DRIVES CONSUMERS’ NFT ARTWORK INVESTMENTS” -
Ivana Pavlić, Barbara Puh, Vesna Vlahović Dašić:
“OLFACTORY AND AUDITORY CUES AND SHOPPER ATTENTION IN THE COOKIE CATEGORY” -
Karla Bilandžić Tanasić, Juraj Rašić, Helena Štimac:
“VISUAL ATTENTION AND CHOICE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIXATION AND PURCHASE DECISIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY” -
Ivana Pavlić, Barbara Puh, Andrea Bilandžić:
“IMPROVEMENT OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING (PBL) BY INTEGRATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PERSONALIZATION (AIP) AND BIOSENSORS” -
Michael Sasky, Michal Jankovič, Eva Hanuláková, Peter Drábik, Kristína Dúbravská:
“FRAMED BY DESIGN: EYE-TRACKING AND SURVEY INSIGHTS INTO VISUAL IDENTITY AND POPULISM IN SLOVAK POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS”
Thursday: Track 2: 12:15-13:15
Neuromanagement, Gender, and Emotional Responses
Chair: Enav Freidmann
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Lior Cohen, Enav Friedmann, Merav Weiss-Sidi, Lior Avieli:
“WHEN SADNESS SPARKS SUPPORT: FEMALE ROLE MODELS AND MALE EMOTIONAL- MOTIVATIONAL RESPONSES TO WOMEN IN TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP“ -
Lauren Pflueger, Isabel Butler, AJ Carroll, Dinko Bačić:
“MEN THINK WOMEN’S SPORTS ARE BORING – THEIR BODIES DISAGREE” -
Srini Pillay, Patrick Candela:
“REAL-WORLD IMPACT OF BRAIN-BASED MINDSET TECHNOLOGY IN U.S. WORKPLACES:
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FROM JAN-MAY 2024 VS. JAN-MAY 2025” -
Lior Avieli, Enav Friedmann, Merav Weiss-Sidi:
“GENDER DIFFERENCES IN IMPLICIT CONTEMPT TOWARD BLATANT AND SUBTLE EMPOWERMENT ADS FEATURING MUSCULAR WOMAN”
Friday: Track 4: 10:00-11:00
NeuroIS and Technology Adoption
Chair: Jan Hinrich Meyer
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Ryan Hensley, Jake Wilcox, Patryk Suszko, Sebastian Mesones, Dinko Bačić:
“PINGS, PLACEMENT AND PERFORMANCE: RETHINKING WORKPLACE NOTIFICATIONS USING BIOMETRICS” -
Jan Hinrich Meyer, John Ravi, Ramon Palau-Saumell, Divya Seernani:
“IT’S NOT ONLY WHAT IS SAID, BUT HOW: HOW USER-EXPRESSED EMOTIONS PREDICT SATISFACTION WITH VOICE ASSISTANTS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS” -
Ashton Handorf, Clay Strader, Miguel Picazo Marin, Charles Avery, Dinko Bačić:
“VISUAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN DEEPFAKE DETECTION: AN EYE-TRACKING AND GSR STUDY” -
Maike Hübner, Julia Thalmann, Jörg Henseler:
“MAPPING THE ATTENTION-CONVERSION FUNNEL FROM EXPOSURE TO MEMORY OF INSTAGRAM IN-FEED ADVERTISING”
Friday: Track 6: 14:15-15:15
Comparing Implicit and Explicit Measurements
Chair: Dinko Bačić
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Enav Friedmann, Lior Avieli, Merav Weiss-Sidi, Sharon Shavitt, Srishti Goel, Nadav Anker:
“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CONTEXT: CONGRUENCE BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT
RESPONSES TO EXPECTED VS. UNEXPECTED ADS FEATURING MALES AND FEMALES” -
Miranda Duffy, Farheen Saiyed, Haley Salas, Angelika Tokarczyk, Dinko Bačić:
“WHO DO WE TRUST? A BIOMETRIC METHOD TO COMMUNITY VS. PLATFORM-DRIVEN MISINFORMATION WARNINGS” -
Kathryn Glasgow, Dinko Bačić, Nabeha Sajid, Shaquan Coombs:
“ANNOTATIONS, IMAGES, AND ATTENTION: VISUAL DESIGN CHOICES THAT CHANGE -
CLIMATE PERCEPTIONS”
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Yael Pedro, Merav Weiss-Sidi:
“HUE MATTERS: HOW COLOR SHAPES WOMEN'S PERCEPTIONS OF STEM ADVERTISING”