WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

2025 Seminars

2024 Seminars

17 December	Sven Fischer	Brunel University of London	“The effects of voting on cooperation under heterogeneous preferences”
10 December	Yan Chen	University of Michigan	“Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter”
10 December	Marco Casari	Univeristy of Bologna	“I will if you will in climate mitigation”
3 December	Michael Kosfeld	Goethe University Frankfurt	“Measuring Economic Preferences with Surveys and Behavioral Experiments”
26 November	Alejandro Hirmas	U Amsterdam/CREED	“Hiring for others: The role of intermediaries in gender discrimination”
19 November	Chloe Tergiman	Penn State U	“Why do Oaths Work?”
12 November	Amma Panin	UC Louvain	“The cognitive consequences of exclusionary national policies”
22 October	Siri Isaksson	NHH/FAIR	“Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality?”
22 October	Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel	TU Berlin	“Between AI, You, and Me: Who should I let decide?“
15 October	Anastasia Leontiou	U Vienna	“Loss-leading in vertical markets: The role of consumers’ loss aversion”
1 October	Flora Drucker	U Düsseldorf/DICE	“Difficult Merits”
8 July	Konstantinos Ioannidis	University of Cambridge	"Heterogeneous Cognitive Effort Restores General Equilibrium when Goods are Indivisible: Theory and Experimental Test"
25 June	Yunshen Yang	UNSW	“Forecasting Change Under Leptokurtic Noise: Evidence from a Controlled Lab Experiment”
25 June	Elise Payzan-LeNestour	UNSW	“Forecasting Change Under Leptokurtic Noise: Evidence from a Controlled Lab Experiment”
25 June	Alexander Usvitsky	HSE University	“Support Networks in Contests“
18 June	Morten Nyborg Støstad	NHH	“Comparing Universes of Redistributive Arguments”
11 June	Ulrich Glogowsky	JKU Linz	“Racial Discrimination in Seeking Advice”
21 Mai	Victor Gonzalez Jimenez	Erasmus University Rotterdam	“Consistency and structural properties of individual and group decisions”.
16 April	Yilong Xu	Utrecht University	“Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions”
2 April	Hande Erkut (2)	WZB	“Repugnant transactions: The role of agency and severe consequences“
2 April	Levent Neyse (1)	WZB	“Does Cognitive Reflection Relate to Preferences and Socio-Economic Outcomes?”
5 March	Boris Maciejovsky	University of California	Too much feedback? The effects of relative performance information on task performance and task persistence”
20 February	Peter Martinsson	University of Gothenburg	“The Impact of Suggested Donation and Social Information on Voluntary Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
23 January (2)	Marie Claire Villeval	GATE, CNRS – U Lyon	“Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion”
23 January (1)	Michael Hilweg	U Mannheim	“Why don’t you deduct to donate more? Behavioral factors undermining tax-incentives for deduction”
16 January (2)	Daniele Nosenzo	U Aarhus	“Social, Demographic, and Psychological Correlates of Lying Aversion”
16 January (1)	Ryan Webb	U Toronto	“A Neuro-Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence from Canned Tuna”

2023 Seminars

12 December	Loukas Balafoutas	U Exeter	“Artificial Intelligence and Debiasing in Hiring: Impact on Applicant Quality and Gender Diversity”
5 December	Irenaeus Wolff	U Konstanz	“Rights, Duties, and Taboo: The Social Codex of Peer-Punishment”
28 November	Johannes Hoelzemann	U Vienna	“Anticipated Regret”
21 November	Tibor Neugebauer	U Luxemburg	“Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets?”
17 November	Ariel Rubinstein	NYU / Tel Aviv U	“People Aggregating Signals: An Experiment and a Short Story”
7 November	Natalie Lee	U Amsterdam	“Over-spying under Strategic Risk”
24 October 2023	Frauke Stehr	U Vienna	“Dodging High Impact Behavior with Motivated Beliefs?”
10 October 2023	Christian Koch	U Vienna	"Overcoming negative ethnic sentiments: A narrative compassion intervention"
3 October 2023	Edika Quispe-Torreblanca	U Leeds	"Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect"
July 4th, 2023	Elise Payzan-LeNestour	UNSW Sydney	“Pavlovian ‘Sign-tracking’ Influences Repeated Risk-Taking in Humans”
June 30th, 2023	Evgenia Dechter	UNSW Sydney	“Automation Risk and Occupational Sorting”
June 30th, 2023	Gonzalo Castex	UNSW Sydney	“Job Displacement and Transferability of Human Capital”
June 20th, 2023	Zoe Rahwan	MPI Berlin	“Delegation of ethical tasks to AI”
June 13th, 2023	Arieda Muco	U Libre de Bruxelles	“The politician, the party, and the president: How do political scandals propagate across the party network?”
June 6th, 2023	Myrto Pantazi	U Libre de Bruxelles	“Too much belief or too much disbelief? Seeking the answer in a complex digital world”
May 30th, 2023	James Tremewan	IESEG	“Leadership and Cooperation in a Sequential Prisoners’ Dilemma”
May, 23rd May	Ada Kovaliukaite	U Vienna	“An Experiment on Gender Representation in Majoritarian Bargaining”
May 16th, 2023	Kateřina Chadimová	Charles U	“Timing, Deterrence & Simplicity in Repetitive Nudges”
May 10th, 2023	Basit Zafar	U Michigan	“Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities: The Gig Economy Meets Online Education”
May 9th, 2023	Paolo Crosetto	INRAE Grenoble	“External validity of risk elicitation: a meta-analysis and a new design”
May 2nd, 2023	Wolfgang Luhan	U Portsmouth	“Do as I Do: Paternalism and Preference Differences in Decision Making for Others”
April 25th, 2023	Eva Ranehill	U Gothenburg	“The Impact of Doctoral Studies on Mental Health Care Uptake”
April 18th, 2023	Tibor Neugebauer	U Luxemburg	“Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets?”
April 18th, 2023	Stephanie Heger	U Bologna	“Eliciting Preferences for Risk and Altruism: Experimental Evidence”
April 11th, 2023	Felix Holzmeister	U Innsbruck	"Population, Sample, and Analytical Heterogeneity: Evidence and Implications"
March 28th, 2023	Yan Chen	U Michigan	“Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy”
March 21st, 2023	Florian Englmaier	LMU Munich	“The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment”
March 14th, 2023	Kathleen Ngangoué	UCLA	“The Resolution of Uncertainty in Value and Probability Domains”
March 7th, 2023	Lawrence Choo	Southwestern U Fin Econ	“Information diffusion and aggregation over separated markets: An experiment”
January 24th, 2023	Kiryl Khalmetski	U Bath	“Altruistic punishment as norm-signaling”
January 17th, 2023	Mackenzie Alston	U Illinois	“Does Black and Blue Matter? An Experimental Investigation of Race, Perceptions of Police, and Legal Compliance”
January 10th, 2023	Wladislaw Mill	U Mannheim	“LinkedOut? Measuring Discrimination in Job Network Formation”

2022 Seminars

December 6th, 2022	Anja Schöttner	Humboldt U	“Delegation of Job Design and the Value of Communication with Imperfect Performance Measurement”
November 29th, 2022	Emin Karagozoglu	Bilkent U	“Moral Preferences in Bargaining”
November 22nd, 2022	Marco Lambrecht	Hanken School of Economics & Helsinki GSE	“An experiment on robo-advising”
October 25th, 2022	Veronica Pizziol	IMT Lucca	"Contributing to the European public budget? An experimental comparison across countries"
October 18th, 2022	Melanie Koch	Austrian National Bank	“The Effect of Social Comparison on Debt Taking: Experimental Evidence”
October 11th, 2022	Anand Murugesan	Central European U	“Public goods, trust and tax compliance in the shadow of an empire”
September 22nd, 2022	Hong Il Yoo	Durham U	“Constant Discounting, Temporal Instability and Dynamic Inconsistency in Denmark: A Longitudinal Field Experiment”
June 28th, 2022	Anna Sandberg	Stockholm U	“Gender Homophily in Job Referrals: Evidence from a Field Study Among University Students”
June 21st, 2022	Andreas Nicklisch	CEPR, U Applied Sciences of the Grisons	“Socio-Economic Values of Syrian Refugees”
June 14th, 2022	Despoina Alempaki	U Warwick	“Deceptive Communication”
June 8th, 2022	Axel Ockenfels	U Cologne	“Why is the soft reserve auction so popular?”
May 31st, 2022	Giorgia Romagnoli	U Amsterdam	“Morals in multi-unit markets”
May 24th, 2022	Catherine Eckel	Texas A&M U	3 pm online: “The Democratic Peace: An experimental test of a causal relation and of underlying mechanisms”
May 17th, 2022	Simeon Schudy	U Munich	online: “Leadership matters more than you think: On the (misperceived) determinants of team success in non-routine tasks”
May 10th, 2022	Jordi Brandts	Barcelona School of Economics	"Pictures are Worth Many Words: Effectiveness of Visual Communication in Dispelling the Rent–Control Misconception"
May 3rd, 2022	Kristof Madrasz	LSE	“Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Context”
April 26th, 2022	Julia Rose	Erasmus U	“Same same, not different: Client-Advisor Matching in the Finance Industry”
April 19th, 2022	Yan Xu	U Vienna	“Commitment and communication in Bayesian persuasion: theory and experiment.”
April 5th, 2022	Nickolas Gagnon	Aarhus U	online: “The Effect of Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply”
March 29th, 2022	Mats Köster	CEU	“Salient Cues and Complexity”
February 8th, 2022	Jakob Möller	WU Vienna	“Backlash against Women in Competition”
February 1st, 2022	Georg Lintner & Philipp Grünwald	WU Vienna	“Incentives, Framing, and Trust in AI: An experimental study”
January 25th, 2022	Christoph Huber	WU Vienna	“On Social Norms and Observability in (Dis)honest Behavior”

2021 Seminars

December 21st, 2021	Johannes Hoelzemann	U Toronto	“Magic Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Smartest One of All?”
December 14th, 2021	Thomas de Haan	U Bergen	“Fairness Preferences in the face of Limited Information: Are people Bayesian Meritocrats?”
December 14th, 2021	Simone Haeckl	U Stavanger	“Effects of Supportive Leadership Behaviors on Worker Satisfaction, Engagement and Performance: An Experimental Field Investigation”
December 7th, 2021	Peter Schwardmann	Carnegie Mellon U	"Learning about one's self"
November 30th, 2021	Gergely Hajdu	WU Vienna	"Image Concerns and Voting Order in Group Decisions"
November 9th, 2021	Marc Kaufmann	CEU	"Narrow Bracketing in Work Choices".
November 2nd, 2021	Jonathan Schulz	George Mason U	"The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation"
October 19th, 2021	Elena Cettolin	Tilburg U	"Goals for Development: Experimental Evidence from Cassava Processors in Ghana"
October 12th, 2021	Nadine Chlaß	U Jena	"Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?"
October 5th, 2021	Eugen Dimant	U Penn	"Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences"
June 22nd, 2021	Maria Kleshnina	Institute of Science and Technology Austria	“Categorical or flexible? Sustaining cooperation among unequals”
June 15th, 2021	Moritz Janas	University of Konstanz/ NYU Abu Dhabi	“Social Ties and Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition”
June 8th, 2021	Elaine Rhee	University of Arizona	“Is The Gender Difference in Competitive Behavior History Dependent?”
June 1st, 2021	Geoffrey Castillo	University of Vienna	“Measuring the importance of interpersonal similarity”
May 25th, 2021	Alexander K. Wagner	University of Vienna	“Ambiguous Promises”
May 19th, 2021	Lise Vesterlund	University of Pittsburgh	“Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives”
May 18th, 2021	Klara Kinnl	WU Vienna	“Self-serving Beliefs About Others when Moral Situations Differ”
May 11th, 2021	Nikola Frollová	Prague University of Economics and Business	“A Qualitative Study of Perception of a Dishonesty Experiment”
May 4th, 2021	Dorothea Kübler	WZB Berlin	“Costly information acquisition in centralized matching markets”
April 27th, 2021	Boon Han Koh	U East Anglia	“Gender biases and performance evaluation: Do outcomes matter more than intentions?”
April 20th, 2021	Andrea Robbett	Middlebury College	“Polarization and Group Cooperation”
April 13th, 2021	Jana Cahlikova	MPI Tax Law and Public Finance	“Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating”
March 23rd, 2021	Christine Exley	Harvard Business School	“The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion”
March 16th, 2021	Joe Vecci	U Gothenburg	“Locus of Control, Economic Decision-Making and Aspirations: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India”
March 9th, 2021	Anya Samek	UCSD	“Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice”
March 2nd, 2021	Jan Philipp Krügel	HSU Hamburg	“The Impact of Fake Reviews on Reputation Systems and Efficiency”
February 9th, 2021	Diya Abraham	WU Vienna	“Social comparisons and effort provision: The effect of being less trusted relative to one’s peers”
February 2nd, 2021	Paul J. Healy	Ohio State University	“Testing Elicitation Mechanisms Via Team Chat.”
January 26th, 2021	Jakob Möller	WU Vienna	“Participation in voluntary competitions and gender discrimination"
January 19th, 2021	Gergely Hajdu	WU Vienna	“Social Image in Joint Decisions”

2020 Seminars

2019 Seminars

December 17th, 2019	Gergely Hajdu	WU Vienna	"Learning it now or learning it later: Impatience about uncertain outcomes"
November 19th, 2019	Benjamin Mandl	Stockholm School of Economics	"An Experiment in Motivated Recall - A Pre Analysis Plan"
October 8th, 2019	Georg Sator	University of Vienna	“Peer Effects and Social Closeness”
September 17th, 2019	Marco Faravelli	University of Queensland	“Conflict in the Pool”
September 3rd, 2019	Ralph-C Bayer	University of Adelaide	“On the credibility of punishment in repeated social dilemma games”
August 28th, 2019	Nicolas Klein	University of Montreal	"Bandits in the Lab”
June 18th, 2019	Michael Jetter	UWA	"Truth and absolution in Colombia: For FARC's sake”
June 17th, 2019	Ali Ozkes	WU Vienna	“Strategic environment, communication, cognitive skills, and cooperation”
June 6th, 2019	Timm Teubner	TU Berlin	“Rankings in Health Care Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence”
June 6th, 2019	Christian Waibel	ETH Zurich	"Profile Photos, Avatars, and the Platform Economy”
May 28th, 2019	Adam Sanjurjo	University of Alicante	"A Bridge from Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice”
May 13th, 2019	Kerstin Grosch	Insitute for advanced studies	"Increasing children’s interest in STEM”
May 7th, 2019	John Antonakis	University of Lausanne	"Just Words? Just Speeches?” On the Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership”
April 9th, 2019	Stefan Trautmann	University of Heidelberg	"Does money make you mean?”
April 2nd, 2019	Lisa Bruttel	University of Potsdam	"The effect of a leniency rule on cartel formation and stability: experiments with open communication”
March 5th, 2019	Christine Grimm	WU Vienna	"Strategic Manipulation of Contribution Information in Public Good Games with Punishment”
January 22nd, 2019	Heike Hennig-Schmidt	University of Bonn	"Altruistic preferences in medicine: An experimental panel study“
January 15th, 2019	Martin Fochmann	University of Cologne	“When happy people make society unhappy: How incidental emotions affect compliance behavior”
January 8th, 2019	Marianne Stephanides	WU Vienna	“How avatars affect trust and trustworthiness in online marketplaces”

2018 Seminars

December 11th, 2018	Stefan Lehner	WU Vienna	“Innovative pricing policies for commuting: a field experiment”
December 4th, 2018	Victor Gonzalez Jimenez	University of Vienna	“Contracting Probability Distortions”
November 27th, 2018	Christiane Schwieren	University of Heidelberg	“Social Norm Perception in Economic Laboratory Experiments: Inexperienced versus Experienced Participants”
November 20th, 2018	Simone Häckl	WU Vienna	“Conscientious over-placement versus biased self-perception”
November 13th, 2018	Raisa Sherif	Max-Planck-Institute	“Sanctioning, selection and pivotality - Theory and experimental results”
November 6th, 2018	Diya Elizabeth Abraham	Masaryk University	"The Effects of Feeling Trusted on Exploration"
October 23rd, 2018	Jelena Cerar	WU Vienna	"The effect of psychic distance on the internal capital allocation to subsidiaries’ proposals”
October 9th, 2018	Peter Werner	Maastricht University	"Wage negotiations and strategic responses to transparency”
June 19th, 2018	Stefan Palan	University of Graz	"Stronger together: Comparing aggregation mechanisms for obtaining optimal predictions”
June 12th, 2018	Martin Kocher	University of Vienna	"Cooperation in a company: a large-scale experiment”
May 22nd, 2018	László Csató	Corvinus University	"Strategy-proofness of sports rules”
May 15th, 2018	Gigi Foster	University of New South Wales	“The Role of Communication in Managing Multi-level Conflicts”
May 15th, 2018	Jingjing Zhang	University of Technology Sydney	“Is there a gender power paradox within the household? A replication and extension of Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) for the US and Australia"
May 8th, 2018	Wendelin Schnedler	Paderborn University	“Why letter writing leads to kindness: Regulating emotions or activating pro-social thinking?”
April 24th, 2018	Peter Katuščák	CERGE-EI	“How to Boost revenues in First-Price Auctions? The Magic of Disclosing Only Winning Bids from Past Auctions”
April 10th, 2018	Owen Powell	WU Vienna	“Designing and Running Economics Experiments with jtree”
March 27th, 2018	Attila Ambrus	Duke University	“Informal risk sharing with local information”
March 20th, 2018	Stéphane Luchini	Université Aix-Marseille	“Eyewitness Testimony under oath: An experimental investigation”
March 13th, 2018	James Tremewan	WU Vienna	“Communication, transparency, and endogenously conflicted advisers”
February 13th, 2018	Ondřej Krčál	Masaryk University	“The Effect of Housing Conditions on Preferences and Behavior: Lab-in-the-Field Experiments with Participants of a Randomized Controlled Trial”
January 23rd, 2018	Christine Grimm	WU Vienna	“Commitment in food choices”
January 16th, 2018	Marianne Stephanides	WU Vienna	“Communication and helping behavior: An experimental study”

2017 Seminars

January 9th, 2017	Stephan Lehner	WU Vienna	"Innovative pricing policies for urban traffic: a field experiment”
December 12th, 2017	Sara le Roux	Oxford Brookes Business School	"Climate Change Catastrophes and Insuring Decisions: A Study in the Presence of Ambiguity”
December 5th, 2017	Ann-Kathrin Koessler	University Osnabrück	"How to create commitment for pro-social behaviour?”
November 28th, 2017	Jana Freundt	University of Hamburg	"Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance"
November 21st, 2017	Paul Pezanis-Christou	University of Adelaide	"A naive approach to bidding"
November 15th, 2017	Andrew Oswald	University of Warwick	"The Midlife Crisis, Suicide, and Social and Economic Policy"
October 24th, 2017	Manuel Schwaninger	University of Vienna	“Conditional Altruism in Bilateral Bargaining”
October 17th, 2017	Maleke Fourati	University of Geneva	“Are Muslim immigrants really different? Experimental evidence from the Lebanese Australian community”
August 29th, 2017	Juan Carlos Carbajal	University of New South Wales	"Policy Persistence and Economic Reform"
July 11th, 2017	Stephan Lehner	WU Vienna	Smart Parking and Road Pricing: A field experiment?
June 14th, 2017	Karl Schlag	University Vienna	“Mathematically Correct Tests for Comparing Variables”
May 30th, 2017	Alexander Usvitskiy	Florida State University	“State-contingent risk-taking in dynamic contests”
May 19th, 2017	Daniel Wiesen	University Cologne	“Performance pay and motivation crowding-out: Evidence from an experiment with general practitioners”.
May 19th, 2017	Daniel Wiesen	University Cologne	“Behavioral experiments in health”
May 2nd, 2017	Gigi Foster	University of New South Wales	“What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households”
April 4th, 2017	Nemanja Antic	Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University	"Screening through coordination"
March 28th, 2017	Judd Kessler	The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania	"Thinking fast and slow: generosity over time"
March 21st, 2017	Lukas Wenner	University Cologne	"More Effort With Less Pay - On Information Avoidance, Belief Design and Performance"
March 21st, 2017	Martin Finkenzeller	WU Vienna	“The silence of the founders: What makes nascent entrepreneurs reveal or conceal their business idea”
March 14th, 2017	Stéphane Luchini	Greqam, Marseille, France	“Commitment to truth-telling and Trust”
March 7th, 2017	Owen Powell	WU Vienna	“Mispricing: experiments and theory”
January 31st, 2017	Marianne Stephanides	WU Vienna	“Apologies in economic decisions”
January 24th, 2017	Ondřej Krčál	Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic	"Killing two birds with one stone: Reducing fiscal and welfare loss of tax Evasion”
January 17th, 2017	Redzo Mujcic	WU Vienna	“A Natural Field Experiment on Discriminatory Gifts”

14 January	Katharina Momsen	U Heidelberg
21 January	Sili Zhang	LMU Munich
28 January	Thomas Rittmannsberger	TU Munich

December 22nd, 2020	Anna Schwarz	WU Vienna	“Just (bad) luck? - Gender differences in confidence and learning about ability”
December 15th, 2020	Angela Sutan	Burgundy School of Business	“Cognitive processes and substitutability vs. complementarity in beauty contest games: A story of 4 experiments.”
December 1st, 2020	Jason Aimone	Baylor University	“The Economics of the Innocence Problem: A Laboratory Study of the Causes and Consequences of False Convictions and Plea Bargains”
November 24th, 2020	Pol Campos-Mercade	University of Copenhagen	“Irrational Statistical Discrimination”
November 17th, 2020	Miloš Fišar	WU Vienna	“Media negativity bias and tax compliance: Experimental evidence”
November 10th, 2020	Lenka Fiala	Tilburg University	“Statistical Role Models”
October 27th, 2020	Arno Riedl	Maastricht University	“Fairness and Coordination: The Role of Fairness Ideals in Coordination Failure and Success"
October 13th, 2020	Nickolas Gagnon	WU Vienna	“The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply”
September 15th, 2020	Mehmet Yigit Gurdal	Bogazici University	“Action-assortative Matching and Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma”
February 11th, 2020	Rostislav Staněk	Masaryk University	“Adding fuel to the fire: An experiment on the role of provocation in conflict”
January 21st, 2020	Balázs Krusper	CEU	“How does choice affect beliefs?”

December 6th, 2016	Anita Zednik	WU Vienna	“The search for good music: preliminary results of latent class analyses of music listen and download choice”
November 22nd, 2016	Christine Grimm	WU Vienna	“Bargaining, Asymmetric Information and Strategic Communication”
November 15th, 2016	Markus Deimel	WU Vienna	“Investigating self-selection mechanisms induced by selective revealing”
November 8th, 2016	Ben Greiner	WU Vienna	“Democratic punishment in public good games with perfect and imperfect observability”
October 25th, 2016	Florian Spitzer	WU Vienna	“Product Testing in Markets for Experience Goods”
October 11th, 2016	Johannes Hölzemann	University of New South Wales	“Gender effects on eBay: 'How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets”
October 4th, 2016	Redzo Mujcic	WU Vienna	“Team Gender Diversity in High-Stake Competitions”

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hjSessionBenutzer_	Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.	1 year	Hotjar
_hjid	This is an old cookie which is not set anymore, but if a user has it unexpired in their browser. It will be reused and migrated to _hjSessionUser_{site_id}. Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.	1 year	Hotjar
_hjFirstSeen	Identifies a new users first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.	30 minutes	Hotjar
_hjHasCachedUserAttributes	Enables us to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not.	session	Hotjar
_hjUserAttributesHash	Enables us to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated.	2 minutes	Hotjar
_hjBenutzerAttribute	Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API. No explicit expiration.	session	Hotjar
hjViewportId	Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions.	session	Hotjar
hjActiveViewportIds	Stores user active viewports IDs. Stores an expirationTimestamp that is used to validate active viewports on script initialization.	session	Hotjar
_hjSession_	Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.	30 minutes	Hotjar
_hjSessionTooLarge	Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the server if the session size exceeds the limit.	1 hour	Hotjar
_hjSessionResumed	Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection.	session	Hotjar
_hjCookieTest	Checks to see if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use cookies. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Deleted almost immediately after it is created.	session	Hotjar
_hjLocalStorageTest	Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Local Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in _hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.	none	Hotjar
_hjSessionStorageTest	Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Session Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in _hjSessionStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.	none	Hotjar
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.	2 minutes	Hotjar
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.	2 minutes	Hotjar
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Used to detect the first pageview session of a user.	30 minutes	Hotjar
_hjTLDTest	We try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed.	session	Hotjar

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