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The Roman Family Center for Decision Research was founded in 1977 by Hillel Einhorn as a pioneering center for the study of human decision-making and judgment. The following University of Chicago faculty members carry on this esteemed tradition as part of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research.

 

Roman Family Center Governing Board

Nicholas Epley

Nicholas Epley

John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science
Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

Faculty Director, the Roman Family Center for Decision Research 


Research Interests: The experimental study of social cognition, perspective-taking, and intuitive human judgment.

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Ayelet Fishbach

Ayelet Fishbach

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

Research Interests: Social psychology, with specific emphasis on motivation, emotion, and decision making.

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Devin Pope

Steven G. Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics


Research Interests: Behavioral economics, with special interest in empirically testing the impact of psychological biases in economic markets.

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Alex Todorov

Alexander Todorov

Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and Rosett Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: How people perceive, evaluate, and make sense of the social world.

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Bernd Wittenbrink

Bernd Wittenbrink

Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science


Research Interests: Psychology of person perception and social judgment.

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Faculty Affiliates

Dan Bartels

Daniel Bartels

Professor of Marketing
Research Interests: Consumer financial decision making, moral psychology, and intertemporal choice.

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Bertrand

Marianne Bertrand

Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
Research Interests: Labor economics, corporate finance, and development economics.

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Shereen Chaudry

Shereen Chaudhry

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: Human judgment and decision-making at the intersection of psychology, economics, and neuroscience; how responsibility attributions influence interpersonal impressions and conflict.

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Giovanni Compiani

Giovanni Compiani

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Research Interests: Industrial organization and quantitative marketing, with an emphasis on applying frontier econometric methods

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Joshua Dean

Joshua Dean

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics
Research Interests: The interaction of poverty and cognition: how the conditions of poverty shape cognitive development by affecting human capital investment, how environments of poverty impede cognition, and how cognitive processes may impede poverty alleviation.

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berkeley dietvorst

Berkeley Dietvorst

Associate Professor of Marketing
Research/Teaching Interests: Understanding how consumers and managers make judgments and decisions, and how to improve them.

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Kristin Donnelly

Kristin Donnelly

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Research Interests: How people think about time, form preferences, and make inferences based on limited information.

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Ginsel

Linda Ginzel

Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology
Research/Teaching Interests: Negotiation skills, organizational behavior, management education, leadership and executive development.

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Hastie

Reid Hastie

Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Judgment and decision making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and personal), memory and cognition, and social psychology

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Christopher K. Hsee

Christopher Hsee

Theodore Otte Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing
Research Interests: The interplay among psychology and economics, happiness, marketing, and cross-cultural psychology.

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Alex Imas

Alex Imas

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Vasilou Faculty Scholar
Research Interests: Topics across economics and psychology, including discrimination, behavioral biases amongst investors, and incorporating psychology into incentives.

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ariel-kalil

Ariel Kalil

Daniel Levin Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy 
Research Interests: Economic conditions, parenting, and child development.

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Emir Kamenica

Emir Kamenica

Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics
Research Interests: Topics in applied microeconomics, including the design of informational environments, and dating and marriage markets.

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Keysar

Boaz Keysar

William Benton Professor of Psychology
Research Interests: Communication, negotiation, and decision making.

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Hajin Kim

Hajin Kim

Assistant Professor of Law
Research Interests: Using principles from social psychology and economics to study environmental law; how moral and social influence can shape environmental regulation and firm behavior.

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Professor Katherine Kinzler

Katherine Kinzler

Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology
Research Interests: The intersection of developmental and social psychology; origins of prejudice and ingroup/outgroup thinking with an emphasis on understanding how language and accent mark social groups; food cognition and moral psychology

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Erika Kirgios

Erika Kirgios

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Workplace diversity and inequality, prosocial behavior, behavior change

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Klayman

Joshua Klayman

Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Learning, judgment, and reasoning in individuals and organizations, with applications to organizational change, managerial decision making, planning, and problem solving.

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Alex Koch

Alex Koch

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Asness Junior Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: Valence asymmetries in cognition and evaluation, similarity assessment, stereotype content, trust and cooperation, balancing exploitation and exploration, and processing fluency in judgments of truth.

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Emma Levine

Emma Levine

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar
Research Interests
: Interpersonal trust and ethical decision-making.

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Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor
Research Interests: Social policy, particularly in the areas of urban poverty, crime, and education.

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Susan mayer

Susan Mayer

Professor Emeritus, Chicago Harris
Research Interests:
The measurement of poverty, the effect of growing up in poor neighborhoods, and the effect of parental income on children's well-being.

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McGill

Ann McGill

Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Consumer and manager decision making, with special emphasis on causal explanations, differences in judgments in public and in private, and the use of imagery in product choice.

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Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan

Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, poverty, and finance behavioral economics.

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A. David Nussbaum

A. David Nussbaum

Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Self-image maintenance, rationalization, stereotype threat.

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Obrien

Ed O'Brien

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Social cognition and hedonic processes.

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Shigehiro Oishi

Shigehiro Oishi

Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology
Research Interests: Culture, social ecology, and well-being

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Eric Oliver

Eric Oliver

Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Biological foundations of political cognition.

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Jane Risen

Jane Risen

H.G.B. Alexander Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Judgment and decision making, belief formation, magical thinking, stereotyping and prejudice, and managing emotion.

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John Paul Rollert

John Paul Rollert

Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: Adam Smith, the ethics of empathy, the moral psychology of leadership, the history of philanthropy, business ethics, Supreme Court jurisprudence, modern American politics

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Sarah Sebo

Sarah Sebo

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics

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Anuj Shah

Anuj Shah

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: How decision makers deal with limited resources.

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Alex Shaw

Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests: Fairness, intellectual property, and reputation and their development throughout childhood.

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Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Research Interests: (In)consistencies of the decision-making process across different domains and decision targets 

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Avner Strulov Shlain

Avner Strulov-Shlain

Assistant Professor of Marketing 
Research Interests: Behavioral economics questions in the domains of quantitative marketing and industrial organization

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Abby Sussman

Abigail Sussman

Professor of Marketing and Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Scholar
Research Interests: Consumer decision making.

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talhelm

Thomas Talhelm

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: How culture affects the way we behave.

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Chenhao Tan

Chenhao Tan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Language and social dynamics, human-centered machine learning, multi-community engagement

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Thaler

Richard Thaler

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


Research Interests: Behavioral economics and finance; the psychology of decision making.

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Urminksy

Oleg Urminsky

Professor of Marketing
Research Interests: Decision making, goals and motivation, intertemporal choice.

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Rebecca White

Rebecca White

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: The processes through which people form judgments and predictions in their everyday planning, goal-setting, negotiating, and decision making.

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George Wu

George Wu

John P. and Lillian A. Gould Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests: The psychology of individual, managerial, and organizational decision making; decision analysis; and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation

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Zinchenko

Elena Zinchenko

Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science
Research/Teaching Interests: Negotiation, application of neuroscience research to business, marketing and education

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