Uri Simonsohn

Research Areas

Consumer Behavior; behavioral economics; judgment and decision making; experimental methodology

Current Projects

"How Many Subjects Show the Effect? A Sharp Lower Bound Estimator with Examples from Behavioral Economics"; "Elicitation Mechanisms Influence Preferences: The Uncertainty Effect as a Case Study"; "Spurious? Name Similarity Effects (Implcit Egotism) in Marriage, Job and Moving Decisions"; "Proxying for Unobservable Variables with Internet Document Frequency" (with Albert Saiz)

Representative Publications

“Weather to Go to College” The Economic Journal (Forthcoming).

"Direct-Risk-Aversion: Evidence from Risky Prospects Valued Below Their Worst Outcome.” Psychological Science V20(6), p.686-692. (2009).

(with Small, D.)
“Friends of Victims: Personal Experience and Social Preferences” Journal of Consumer Research 35, p. 532-543. (2008).

(with Ariely, D.)
“When Rational Sellers Face Non-Rational Consumers: Evidence from Herding on eBay”, Management Science 54(9) p.1624-1637, (2008).

(with Karlsson, N., Loewenstein, G. and Ariely, D.)
“The Tree of Experience in the Forest of Information: Overweighing Experienced relative to Observed Information” Games and Economic Behavior 62(1), pp.263-286, (2008).

Education

PhD, Carnegie Mellon, 2003

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2009-present. Previous appointment: UCSD