Professor
George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Psychologist; Behavioral economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2008
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology. Contributed to behavioral economics and psychology, with applications to medical, legal and policy issues. Showed how limited rationality and willpower influence intertemporal choice and expressed preference. Recent work induces and measures emotion and neural activity to explore their correlation with choice.
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