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Eldar Shafir Professor
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Education: B.A. in Cognitive Science and Logic and Philosophy of Science at Brown University; Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Descriptive analyses of inference, judgment and decision making; Normative and descriptive theories of rationality; Behavioral economics; Non-consequential reasoning and decision-making; Systematic biases and predictable errors; Judgments and decision making in situations of conflict and uncertainty; Decision making in the context of poverty.
Present positions: Behavioral Economics Roundtable, The Russell Sage Foundation ● Academic Advisory Board, Behavioral Finance Forum ● Advisory Board, The Pace Center, Princeton University ● Faculty Associate, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School (http://weblamp.princeton.edu/chw/about/faculty.html) ● Board of Trustees, Isles, Inc. (http://www.isles.org/staff.html) ● Editorial Board: Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Mind & Society; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ● Memberships: Fellow, American Psychological Society; Psychonomic Society; Society for Judgment and Decision Making; American Economic Association; Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Awards and acknowledgments: Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 1996, for the paper Medical decision making in situations that offer multiple alternatives ● Chase Memorial Award, 1993 ● Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 1992 ● Best Paper Award-First Prize (with Amos Tversky), IAREP/SASE Conference, Stockholm School of Economics, 1991.
Web resources on Professor Shafir: Shafir on his new field research on "street psychology" and economics, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, 2006 (http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/06/1023/1a.shtml)
SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB
(2006) Bertrand, M., Mullainathan, S., & Shafir, E. Behavioral economics and marketing in aid of decision-making among the poor. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 25, 1, 8-23 (preprint: http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/papers/Decision%20Making.pdf)
(2002) Shafir, E., & LeBoeuf, R.A. Rationality. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 53, 491-517 (http://psy.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/ShafirAnnualReview.pdf)
(2000) Mather, M., Shafir, E., & Johnson, M.K. Misremembrance of options past: Source monitoring and choice. Psychological Science, 11, 2, 132-138 (http://people.ucsc.edu/~mather/pdffiles/Matheretal2000.pdf)
Working papers and drafts:
(2005) Bertrand, M., Karlan, D., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E., Zinman, J., What's psychology worth? A field experiment in the consumer credit market (http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2006/0106_0800_0402.pdf)
(1993) Babcock, L., Farber, H.S., Fobian, C., Shafir, E., Forming beliefs about adjudicated outcomes: Risk attitudes, uncertainty, and reservation values, WP 325 (http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/325.pdf)
(----) Bertrand, M., Mullainathan, S., Shafir E., A behavioral economics view of poverty ( http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/papers/BehavPovertyPaper102.pdf)
(----) Amir, O., Ariely, D.,Cooke, A., Dunning, D., Epley, N., Gneezy, U., Koszegi, B., Lichtenstein, D., Mazar, N., Mullainathan, S., Prelec, D., Shafir, E., Silva, J., Psychology, behavioral economics, and public policy ( http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/amir/docs/behavioral-economics.pdf)
Updated: January 22, 2007