Dr. Ozan Isler

Behavioural and Experimental Economist

Recent Developments​

• Published Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics in Scientific Reports with Simon Gächter, John Maule, and Chris Starmer.
  
• Received The 2021 Sabanci International Research Award with Onurcan Yilmaz.
  
• Published Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation in Nature Human Behaviour with Onurcan Yilmaz and John Maule.
  
• Published Are we at all liberal at heart? in JESP with Onurcan Yilmaz and Burak Dogruyol.

​​​​I work as research fellow at Queensland University of Technology's School of Economics and Finance and Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology. ​I am also an external fellow of University of Nottingham's Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx) and a founding member of the Istanbul Moral Intuitions Research Laboratory (MINT). 

​My research focuses on the economics and psychology of cooperation and morality; scarcity and financial decision-making; preventive health behaviour; and behavioural public policy.

​I currently teach behavioural and experimental economics at QUT and UQ, and lead a Think Forward Initiative research grant on promoting financial preparedness.