Faculty Experts in Behavioral Science

For a list of our thought leaders in behavioral science, please see below.

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Shereen Chaudhry

Shereen Chaudhry

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

  • Interpersonal communication
  • Apologies
  • Conflict management
  • Impression management
Shereen Chaudhry

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Nicholas Epley

Nicholas Epley

John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

  • Perspective taking
  • Empathy
  • Happiness
  • Prosociality
  • Ethics
  • Social connection
Nicholas Epley

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Ayelet Fishbach

Ayelet Fishbach

Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing and IBM Corporation Faculty Scholar

  • Decision-making
  • Social psychology
  • Behavioral science
  • Health decisions
  • Management
  • Consumer motivation
Ayelet Fishbach

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Reid Hastie

Reid Hastie

Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science

  • Judgment and decision-making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and consumer)
  • Memory and cognition and social psychology
  • Collective intelligence and team decision-making
Reid Hastie

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Alex Imas

Alex Imas

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Vasilou Faculty Scholar

  • Behavioral economics
  • Behavioral finance
  • Incentives
  • Choice architecture
Alex Imas

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Ann L. McGill

Ann L. McGill

Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science

  • Consumer and managerial decision-making with special emphasis on causal reasoning
  • Anthropomorphism
  • Dehumanization
Ann L. McGill

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Thomas Talhelm

Thomas Talhelm

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

  • Culture
  • Chinese culture
  • Indian culture
  • Political culture
  • Regional differences
  • Cultural change
  • Modernization
  • Individualism
  • Collectivism
Thomas Talhelm

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Richard H. Thaler

Richard H. Thaler

Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics

  • Behavioral economics and finance
  • The psychology of decision-making
Richard H. Thaler

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Alexander Todorov

Alexander Todorov

Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and Richard Rosett Faculty Fellow

  • Behavioral science
  • Judgments and decision-making
  • Perception
Alexander Todorov

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George Wu

George Wu

John P. and Lillian A. Gould Professor of Behavioral Science

  • Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
  • Behavioral decision-making
  • Negotiation
George Wu

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