Alice Netwon-Fenner
Bio
Alice Newton-Fenner has a BA in Experimental Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in Psychological Research Methods and Statistics from the University of Liverpool. Alice is 25 years old and originally from London but have been living in Liverpool for over 2 years now, so is really inconsistent when pronouncing "bath" and "grass".
Research Interests: Experimental Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience, Neuroeconomics.
Research project title: Neural mechanisms of economic decision making during online purchasing
Supervisory team: Dr Andrej Stancak, Dr Olga Gorelkina, Dr Yiquan Gu, Dr Marco De Angelis, Dr Amogh Deshpande
Blog Posts
In the UK, as of 2017, more items are now purchased online than in brick and mortar shops. With the “death of the high street”, a common theme in news headlines, and the ecommerce market increasingly growing, most auction houses have now moved online. No platform is as synonymous with auctions as the retail giant eBay: with £16.7 billion gross merchandise value reported for eBay marketplace for the third quarter of 2018, and over 1 billion listings live at any one time, eBay is the third biggest online retailer in the UK. To put this in perspective, a video game is purchased on eBay every 6 seconds, an appliance every 5 seconds, and a car part every 2 seconds.
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