Sudeep Bhatia
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I am currently most interested in the computation of choice. In particular I try to use neurally viable models of decision making and information processing, to explain the value aggregation processes that precede the act of choice. I also study altruism and social preferences from the perspective of behavioral economics. I received my BA in Economics and Philosophy, with a minor in Mathematics, from Tufts University.

Alycia Chin
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I am a student in the Behavioral Decision Research program. My primary research interests are in consumer decision making and personal finance, especially savings and spending behavior of low-income individuals. I am currently working with Wandi Bruine de Bruin on research examining subjective expectations. In particular, we are interested in how people form expectations of future events, their ability to report these expectations to researchers, and the validity of their responses.

Carla Costa
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I am a Ph.D. student in the Technological Change and Entrepreneurship Program, in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal partnership. I worked at the Portuguese Governmental Agency for Innovation, at a biotech business incubator, and at IST's entrepreneurship office. My research interests focus on the intersection between innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional economic development. I aim to contribute to a better understanding of how firm creation propels economic development and to the characterization of the role that technology-based entrepreneurship plays in this relationship. I received a M.Sc. degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology and a 5-year B.S. in Business Administration from ISCTE, also in Portugal.

Cristina Maria da Silva Carias
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I am interested in understanding the relationship between entrepreneurial success, the geographical localization of new firms, and the creation of industrial centers. I hold a BS in Physics Engineering and an MS in Engineering and Management of Technology, both from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal. I also hold a Certificate in Econometrics and Applied Prediction from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship.

Alex Davis
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My main interests are in judgment and behavioral economics, and I am currently empirically investigating topics such as judgments based on memory, social comparison, hot-cold empathy gaps, altruism, theories of gambling pleasure, attribute substitution, reference points, and wage substitutes. I am currently working with Carey Morewedge, George Loewenstein, Roberto Weber, and John Miller

Peter Kriss
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I am a graduate student in Behavioral Decision Research. I am working with Andreas Blume and Roberto Weber to investigate the role that communication costs have in increasing the frequency of tacit coordination in organizations. I am also working on several projects (with George Loewenstein, Rosemarie Nagel, Xianghong Shirley Wang, Roberto Weber and Erte Xiao) relating to judgments of fairness and the behaviors to which they lead. I received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in Mathematics with minors in Philosophy and Psychology.

Piper Lincoln
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Amanda Markey
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I'm a doctoral student in behavioral decision research and am working with George Loewenstein and Julie Downs on two projects studying the effectiveness of decision aids in health education and decision making. A few of my current research interests are: determining why and when people forgive in economic games, creating a new model for intertemporal choice, and examining the effects of short term expectations on subjective experience. I received a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Economics and Psychology.

Erin McKinney
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I am a graduate student in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change program. I am interested in the strategies of innovative firms and the management of innovation. Currently, I am concentrating on the different strategies firms use when hiring scientists and the dynamics of scientists' work in organizations. My research focuses on firms' strategies in hiring inventors and how this relates to the link between the spread of ideas across firms and scientist employment mobility. I am also working on a project looking at how interdisciplinary science teams form and function. I received an M.S in Statistics and a B.A. in International Affairs and Economics from George Washington University.

Mark Patterson
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I am currently working with Erte Xiao in order to understand what brings people to volunteer their time rather than their money in charitable giving scenarios. I am also interested in evolutionary games, characterizing economic freedom of choice, and reductionism in social science. I hold an MSc. in Philosophy of Social Science from The London School of Economics, and a BA from Northwestern University in Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Philosophy.

Nathanial Peterson
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I work with Robyn Dawes, Roberto Weber, and Don Moore. My primary line of research is concerned with how much people value others' risky outcomes relative to their own. Other projects investigate the use of random and biased information in judgment. I received a B.S. in Applied Economics and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota.

Pedro Prego
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I am a Ph.D. student in the Technological Change and Entrepreneurship Program, in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal partnership. I have a 4-year BS in Economics from Universidade da Beira Interior. I also hold a Certificate in Econometrics and Applied Prediction. My research interests focus on the flow of workers within the same industry and inter-industry and the effects it has on fields such as firm creation, geographical localization and employee turnover.

Daniel Schwartz
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I am a doctoral student in Behavioral Decision Research. My primary interest is in behavioral economics as applied to public policy. Currently, I am working on several projects applying key components of behavioral economics to environmental issues, specifically household energy consumption. I am working with George Loewenstein, Baruch Fischhoff, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, and Lester Lave. Before I started my PhD program, I worked as consultant in the application of data analysis techniques to consumers' behavior. I received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Chile in 2004.

Gabriel Silverman
(412) 268-1207 | BP 319A | Email
I am a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, through which I am studying to receive an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Decision Research from SDS. I am working with Baruch Fischhoff and George Loewenstein on projects relating to medical and public health decision making. I received a B.A. in Cognitive Science and Psychology from Yale.

Eric VanEpps
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I am a graduate student in behavioral decision research, working on a series of studies with Julie Downs and George Loewenstein. My current research interests include how people decide to be charitable, how consumers use food labels and nutrition claims to make decisions, and how people derive satisfaction from being right even in unpleasant situations. I received my B.A. in Psychology and Leadership Studies from the University of Richmond in 2010.

Michael Yu
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Shereen Chaudhry
I am a doctoral student in the Behavioral Decision Research program with interests in behavioral economics and neuroscience. I am particularly curious about intertemporal choice, reference points, and emotion. I received my BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and my MHA from Cornell University. 

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