Faculty: Carey Morewedge
I am a psychologist who studies the cognitive processes that are involved in judgment and decision making. My research examines how people evaluate the utility of alternatives and experiences in the present and future. One research project, for example, showed that football fans were likely to remember the best game they ever saw and use that memory, rather than memories of more typical games, to predict their enjoyment of a game they were about to attend (Morewedge, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2005). I also examine causal reasoning. In other words, how people interpret and decide what caused thoughts, actions, and events. Other aspects of this work examine effects of those interpretations.
Carey Morewedge's Curriculum Vita
Graduate Students: Eva Buechel, Alex Davis, Uriel Haran, Young Eun Huh, Tamar Krishnamurti, Paul Litvak, Kate Walker-Smith
Eva Buechel
I am a first year graduate student in Marketing at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon. I received my B.S. in Psychology from the University of Basel,Switzerland. I am currently doing reseach on affective forecasting with Carey Morewedge and Joachim Vosgerau.
Alex Davis
I am working with Carey Morewedge, George Loewenstein, Roberto Weber, and John Miller presently. My main interests are in judgment and behavioral economics, and I am currently empirically investigating topics such as judgments based on memory, social comparison, hot-cold empathy gaps, altruism, theories of gambling pleasure, and wage substitutes. For more information, visit Alex's website.
Uriel Haran
I am a first-year PhD student of Organizational Behavior at the Tepper School of Business. My current research interests are the effects of self-esteem and social expectations on judgment, fairness perceptions, and overconfidence.
Young Eun Huh
I am interested in how people make judgments and decisions. My current research includes social influence under uncertainty, hedonic adaptation processes, and information processing with different consumption motivation.
Tamar Krishnamurti
Tamar Krishnamurti received her Bachelors degree in Biological Anthropology in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon. She is currently a fourth year doctoral student pursuing a joint degree in Behavioral Decision Research and Psychology. Her primary research interests include risk perception and sexual decision-making among both adolescent and adult populations. For more information, visit Tamar's website.
Tamar Krishnamurti's Curriculum Vita
Paul Litvak
My research current focuses on two topics. How do emotions impact risky choice? Specifically, I have been conducting experiments on the impact of incidental anger and sadness on an externally validated measure of risk-taking. What rules underlie consumption behavior? I have been examining this question in the context of buffet situations, studying how individuals recoup their sunk costs.
Katherine Walker-Smith
I am a doctoral student pursuing a joint degree in Behavioral Decision Research and Psychology. My primary research interests involve using knowledge of human judgment and decision making to improve information dissemination, and understanding the mechanisms and effects of internet interactions and communication. For more information, visit Kate's website.
Senior Thesis Students: Piper Lincoln, Steven Springer
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Undergraduate Research Assistants: Larissa Vera Chopyk, Elliot Onn
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