Paul M. Gorny joined the Chair of Human Resource Management as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2019. He did his undergraduate as well as his postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Cologne. He obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia. His thesis is on Essays on Asymmetries in Contest.

His research interests fall primarily into two subject areas. On the one hand, he examines gender-specific differences in behavior with particular attention to how gender is anchored in language and how this affects behavior in turn. On the other hand, he investigates how human behavior changes when artificial intelligence and robots become part of the interaction environment.

A small part of his research is devoted to the methods of experimental economic research. During his doctorate, he conducted research in game theory with a particular focus on network theory and contests.

CV (external Link)

• How strength asymmetries shape multi-sided conflicts, 2024, joint with Sebastián Cortes-Corrales, Economic Theory

• Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs, 2023, joint with Christoph Huber, Anna Dreber, Jürgen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Utz Weitzel, Felix Holzmeister, Petra Nieken and others, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 120(23), e2215572120

• Prosocial behavior among human workers in robot-augmented production teams—A field-in-the-lab experiment, 2023, joint with Benedikt Renner and Louis Schäfer, Frontiers in Behavioral Economics (Section Culture and Ethics), 2, 1220563, preregistration

• Reproducibility in Management Science, 2023, by Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration, Management Science, forthcoming. Note: Contributed as a Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.

1. Gorny, P.M., Groos, E. und Strobel, C. (2024). Do Personalized AI Predictions Change Subsequent Decision-Outcomes? The Impact of Human Oversight, MPRA Working Paper No. 121065  (currently under review)
2. Gorny, P.M., Nieken, P., and Ströhlein, K. (2023). He, She, They? The Impact of Gendered Language on Economic Behavior, CESIfo Working Paper No. 10458 
3. Gorny, P.M., Nieken, P., and Ströhlein, K. (2023). The Effects of Gendered Language on Norm Compliance, CESIfo Working Paper No. 10459  
4. Gorny, P.M. und Woodard, R.C. (2020). Don't fear the Robots: Automatability and Job Satisfaction, MPRA Working Paper No. 103424   (new draft in preparation) 

1. Kandler, M.; Schäfer, L; Gorny, P.M.; Lanza, G.; Nieken, P. and Ströhlein, K. (2021). Learning Factory Labs as Lab-in-the-Field Environments - An Experimental Concept for Human-Centred Production Research, Conference on Learning Factories (CLF) 2021  
2. Ströhlein, K.; Gorny, P.M.; Kandler, M.; Schäfer, L; Nieken, P. and Lanza, G. (2022). Decision Experiments in the Learning Factory: A Proof of Concept, Conference on Learning Factories (CLF) 2022  
3. Kandler, M.; Ströhlein, K.; Gorny, P.M.; Riedinger, S; Nieken, P. and Lanza, G. (2022). Human-Oriented Design of Andon-Boards 4.0 – Promoting Decentralized Decisions on the Shopfloor and Acceptance by Employees, Conference on Learning Factories (CLF) 2022