Faculty Experts in Behavioral Science

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

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Shereen Chaudhry

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

Interpersonal communication
Apologies
Conflict management
Impression management

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773.834.5828

Joshua Dean

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics

Behavioral economics
Development economics

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773.834.5828

Nicholas Epley

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

Perspective taking
Empathy
Happiness
Prosociality
Ethics
Social connection

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773.834.5828

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

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773.834.5828

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

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773.834.5828

Alex Imas

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Vasilou Faculty Scholar

Behavioral economics
Behavioral finance
Incentives
Choice architecture

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773.834.5828

Erika Kirgios

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Diversity and inclusion
Prejudice-reduction
Behavior change

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Emma Levine

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar

Honesty, trust, and ethics

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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

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773.834.5828

Ed O'Brien

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Time and change
Social psychology
Well-being

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John Paul Rollert

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Business ethics
Leadership
Politics
The history of capitalism

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Thomas Talhelm

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

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

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773.834.5828

Richard H. Thaler

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

Behavioral economics and finance
The psychology of decision-making

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773.834.5828

Alexander Todorov

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

Behavioral science
Judgments and decision-making
Perception

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773.834.5828

George Wu

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

Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
Behavioral decision-making
Negotiation

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773.834.5828

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