Scholar
George Loewenstein
Google Scholar ID: 8nyQzDsAAAAJ
Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Citations & Impact
Citations
58,234
H-index
112
i10-index
318
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 300 journal articles across economics, psychology, law, medicine, and other fields
- Authored or edited 6 books on topics such as intertemporal choice, behavioral economics, and emotions
- Served on editorial boards of numerous interdisciplinary journals
- Past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Received grants and awards from NIH, NSF, USDA, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, among others
- Served on multiple National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine panels
Research Experience
- Held academic positions at the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University
- Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Russell Sage Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and London School of Economics
- Served on and chaired over 40 doctoral committees
- Taught intensive courses in behavioral economics at universities worldwide
- Advised numerous governmental and corporate organizations including NIH, USDA, U.K. Behavioural Insights Team, CVS Caremark, Ascension Health, McKinsey, NPD, and Aramark
Background
- Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
- Currently holds visiting professor positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø), and the BRIQ Institute on Behavior and Inequality at the University of Bonn, Germany
- Research focuses on applications of psychology to economics and, more recently, applications of economics to psychology (e.g., economic analyses of boredom, insecure self-esteem, and reluctance to thank or apologize)
- Specific interests include belief-based utility, psychology and economics of attention, learning and forgetting, motivational feeling states (e.g., boredom, curiosity, mental effort), intertemporal choice, bargaining, health psychology, law and economics, adaptation, emotion in decision making, curiosity, conflicts of interest, aspects of sexuality, unethical behavior, and research ethics
- One of the founders of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics; early proponent of 'asymmetric' or 'libertarian' paternalism in public policy
