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Program

Campus, University of Dubrovnik, Branitelja Dubrovnika 41

September 18th, 2025

  • 9:30: Registration and gathering + Coffee

  • 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

  • 12:00-12:15: Coffee break

  • 12:15-13:15: Track 2

  • 13:30-14:30: Lunch 

  • 15:00-16:00 Track 3

  • 16:00-16:45: Coffee & Roundtables

  • 18:00 -19:30 Walking tour in Dubrovnik

  • 20:00: Evening social event-
               
    Traditional dinner

September 19th, 2025

  • 9:30-10:00: Gathering+ Coffee

  • 10:00-11:00: Track 4

  • 11:00-11:30: Coffee break

  • 11:30-12:30: Track 5

  • 13:00-14:00: Lunch 

  • 14:15-15:15: Track 6

  • 15:15-16:00: Special track- I+iMotions
                         Divya Seernani

  • 16:00:16:15: Coffee break

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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”

  • Yael Pedro, Merav Weiss-Sidi:
    “HUE MATTERS: HOW COLOR SHAPES WOMEN'S PERCEPTIONS OF STEM ADVERTISING”

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