Decision Processes Colloquia: 2009-2010

Where: JMHH 355

When: 12:00-1:20 PM (unless otherwise noted)

Note: Please contact Decision Process Coordinators Jonah Berger (215) 898-5404, or Devin Pope (215) 573-8742 for suggestions for additional speakers and Angela Di Santo (215) 746-3756 for Decision Process scheduling information and appointments with speakers.

Fall 2009

	Speaker	Abstracts/Papers
September 14, 2009	Katherine Milkman,Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management,The Wharton School	Decision Biases in the Lab and the Field, with an Eye towards Improving Outcomes
September 21, 2009	Cassie Mogilner, Assistant Professor of Marketing The Wharton School	Time, Money, and Happiness
September 28, 2009	No colloquium
October 5, 2009	Nicholas Barberis, Stephanie & Camille Schramm Professor Finance Yale School of Management	A Model of Casino Gambling
October 19, 2009	Jennifer Lerner, Professor of Public Policy and Management Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University	Emotion and Decision Making Disgust Promotes Disposal: Souring the Status Quo
October 26, 2009	Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University	The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
November 2, 2009	Sheena Iyengar,  Professor of Management  Columbia University	The Art of Subtraction Tragic Choices: Autonomy and Emotional Responses to Medical Decisions
November 9, 2009	Derek Koehler, Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada	Probability matching in choice under uncertainty: Intuition versus deliberation
November 16, 2009	James Fowler, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego	Cooperative Behaviour Cascades in Human Social Networks
November 23, 2009	Sanford DeVoe, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior & HR Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto	Medium of Exchange Matters: What’s Fair for Goods Is Unfair for Money

Spring 2010

	Speaker	Abstracts/Papers
January 25, 2010	Adam Grant, Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School	Prosocial Impact at Work: Does Making a Difference Make a Difference?
February 1, 2010	Drew Westen, Professor of Psychology, Emory University	Consuming Passions: Conscious and Unconscious Influences on Voting and Consumer Behavior
February 8, 2010	Robert Goldstone, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences; Director, Cognitive Science Program Indiana University	Patterns of Innovation and Imitation in Human Collective behavior Papers: How You Named Your Child: Understanding the Relationship Between Individual Decision Making and Collective Outcomes Collective Behavior
February 15, 2010	Emily Balcetis, Assistant Professor of Psychology NYU	Motivated Visual Perception: Seeing What We Want to See Paper
February 22, 2010	Lyle Brenner, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Florida	Support Models of Social Projection
March 1, 2010	Eugene Caruso, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, The University of Chicago	Why the Future is Bigger (and Badder) than the Past
March 8, 2010	SPRING BREAK – No Colloquium
March 15, 2010	Robyn LeBoeuf, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Florida	Consequence-Cause Matching: How and Why People Look to the Consequences of Events to Infer the Causes of Events
March 22, 2010	Elizabeth Dunn, Assistant Professor of Psychology,  University of British Columbia	From Wealth to Well-being: How Money Aids – and Impedes – the Pursuit of Happiness
March 29, 2010	David Laibson, Professor of Economics, Harvard University	Self-control and liquidity: How to design a commitment contract
April 5, 2010	Jane Risen, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago	Why are People Reluctant to Tempt Fate?
April 12, 2010	Eldar Shafir,  Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University	Decisions Under Scarcity
April 14, 2010 Wednesday Location: JMHH F45 10:30 am -11:50 am	Todd Rogers Executive Director, Analyst Institute	Do You Have a Voting Plan? Implementation Intentions, Voter Turnout, and Organic Plan Making Abstract
April 19, 2010	Colin Camerer,* Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, California Institute of Technology	A Cognitive Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking in the Lab, Field, and Brain
April 26, 2010	Kevin Volpp, Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management, The Wharton School	Behavioral Economics and Incentives for Healthy Behavior
May 3, 2010 Location: JMHH 240	Daniel Read, Professor of Behavioural Economics, Durham Business School (UK)	The Psychology of Intertemporal Tradeoffs
*Distinguished Lecture