Mia Karabegovic

Postdoctoral researcher

Mia Karabegović holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the Central European University (CEU; Vienna, Austria), having previously obtained her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. After her graduate studies, she joined the Institute Jean Nicod (ENS-PSL) as a postdoctoral researcher, working on intellectual humility with Hugo Mercier, before moving to theCEVIPOF to work with Lou Safra on questions of health inequalities, perceptions of victimhood and partner choice. Mia’s main research interest is reputation management, in connection to which she has worked on prosocial behavior and signaling, intellectual humility, epistemic gratitude, authenticity, credit attribution and, more broadly, partner choice. As an external collaborator, she has also worked with the Institute Ivo Pilar in Zagreb on questions of gender stereotypes and vocational interests, and serves as an associate editor of the Croatian social science journal, Društvena istraživanja.

Key publications:

Heintz, C., Karabegovic, M., & Molnar, A. (2016). The co-evolution of honesty and strategic vigilance. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1503.

Karabegovic, M., & Mercier, H. (2024). The reputational benefits of intellectual humility. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 15(2), 483-498.

Karabegovic, M., Wang, L., Boyer, P., & Mercier, H. (2024). Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(3), 252-260.

mia.karabegovic@sciencespo.fr