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Registration is mandatory and open until 23 March 2026. To register, please contact <a>karan.singhal@uni.lu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the lecture:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economic insecurity and instability affect not only <em>what<\/em> we decide, but <em>how<\/em> we decide. Sustained exposure to precarious economic environments can induce a chronic engagement of impulsive, automatic processes at the expense of deliberative reasoning, resulting in systematic decision biases. At the same time, by increasing uncertainty about the consequences of choices, insecurity amplifies noise in deliberative decision-making. This lecture reviews recent experimental evidence from neuroeconomics and behavioral economics showing how economically unstable environments trigger faulty heuristics rooted in the architecture of human cognition, thereby degrading the very cognitive infrastructure needed to escape precarious situations. 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