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Carey Morewedge
 Assistant Professor Ph.D.: Harvard University Office: Porter Hall 319F Phone: 412.268.6079 Fax: 412.268.6938 View curriculum vitae View personal website Centers Center for Behavioral Decision Research View list of all SDS faculty |
Research Interests 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. Selected publications on subjective utility Morewedge, C. K., Shu, L. L., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 947-951. Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Keysar, B., Berkovits, M. J., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(4), 700-709. Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2005). The least likely of times: How remembering the past biases forecasts of the future. Psychological Science, 16(8), 626-630. Selected publications on attribution Morewedge, C. K. (2009). Negativity bias in attribution of external agency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(4), 535-545. Morewedge, C. K., & Norton, M. I. (2009). When dreaming is believing: The (motivated) interpretation of dreams. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96(2), 249-264. Epley, N., Morewedge, C. K., & Keysar, B. (2004). Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(6), 760-768. |