Research

Research Activities

My research examines how people make predictions and decisions — from forecasting geopolitical events to trading in political prediction markets. I study the biases that shape these judgments and how training can help attenuating them.

📄 Published Papers

Published 2025 International Journal of Forecasting

Training to Forecast Better

How does training improve individual forecasts? Modeling differences in compensatory and non-compensatory biases in geopolitical forecasts

Motahhar, V. K. & Gruca, T. S. Vol. 41(2), pp. 487–498
Published 2025 International Journal of Forecasting

Emotional Biases in Political Decision Making

Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets

Motahhar, V. K., Gruca, T. S. & Tavakoli, M. H. Vol. 41(2), pp. 571–579

Research Interests

Quantitative Modeling Prediction Markets Decision Biases Natural Language Processing Big Data