12th Behavioural Game Theory Workshop 2026

The School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) at the University of East Anglia will be holding our 12th annual workshop on behavioural game theory on July 9th and 10th 2026. This year’s workshop will be conducted online via Zoom. We plan to hold sessions in the afternoon (UK time) to accommodate participation from attendees in other countries.

The purpose of the workshop is to present current experimental and behavioural research related to the topic of game theory. Our theme this year is complexity, including studies in which complex games are investigated, subjects’ behavioural or cognitive response to complexity is modelled or made observable and new methods are explored to generate or analyse data in these contexts. All papers that lie at the intersection of game theory, behavioural economics, and experimental economics will be considered, but we will give priority to papers that fit with this year’s theme. 

The School of Economics is going to fund the Bob Sugden Best Junior Paper Award of £200 for excellent work by a junior researcher (defined as having obtained their PhD within the last 6 years