Past Seminars

Fall 2020

• Dr. Ariel Zylberberg (University of Rochester) 

The Construction of Preferences During Deliberation Leading to a Decision 
October 15, 2020, 10:00 am., Zoom
 

Spring 2020

• CANCELED: Dr. Ishita Dasgupta  (Princeton University)

Learning to Infer: Algorithmic Approaches to Ecological Rationality
March 26, 2020, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

• Dr. Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University) 

Memory and Representativeness 
February 25, 2020, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Uris Hall 142

Fall 2019

• Dr. Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)  

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities
September 26, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

• Dr. Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)  

The Strategic Brain under Risk in Games and Lotteries with FMRI
October 31, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Uris Hall 140

Spring 2019

• Dr. Molly Crockett (Yale University)  

Moral Decision-Making: Conscience, Context, and Conformity
March 7, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

• CANCELED: Dr. Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities
March 28, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall

Fall 2018

• Dr. Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)  

Using Visual Saliency in Game Theory 
September 13, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  

• Dr. Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University)  

Econographics 
November 15, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  

• Dr. Tom Griffiths (Princeton University)  

Resource-rational models of decision-making
November 29, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

• Dr. Angela Yu (University of California San Diego) 

Faces: A Window into Cognition 
December 6th, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall

This talk is cosponsored by the Columbia Economics Program for Economic Research. 

• Book Talk by Dr. Nick Chater (Warwick Business School)  

The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case Law, Not Naive Science.
September 18, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Warren 416

Fall 2017

• Dr. Rava Azeredo da Silveira (École Normale Supérieure and Princeton University) 

Various approaches to online inference — human behavior and theoretical models​ 
November 9th, 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Spring 2017 

• Dr. Cary Frydman (University of  Southern California) 

The Role of Science and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An Experimental Investigation 
March 2 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 303

• Dr. Ben Hayden (University of Rochester) 

Neuronal Foundations of Economic Value 
April 6 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 301

• Dr. Peter Dayan (University College London) 

Betwixt fast and slow: Integrating model-free and model-based decision-making 
April 27 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 33

Fall 2016 

• Dr. Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) 

The brain’s functional network architecture reveals human motives
September 29, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

• Dr. Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard Medical School) 

Normative decisions between more than two alternatives
October 20, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 301

• Dr. Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 

A multisensory approach for understanding decision circuits​
December 8, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Warren 209

Spring 2016 

• Dr. Jonathan Cohen (University of Princeton) 

Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control:  Toward a Rational Explanation​
February 25, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

• Dr. Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute)  

Regulatory Reform after the Crisis: Has the Financial System Become Safe?
March 8, 2016, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Uris 301

• Dr. Giorgio Coricelli (University of Southern California)  

Strategizing and attention in games​
March 24, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

• Symposium on Information Selection Featuring Mark Dean, Jacqueline Gottlieb and Eric Johnson

April 21, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Fall 2015

• Dr. Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) 

Experimental Economics on Reward Neurons
September 21, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 141

• Dr. David Laibson (Harvard University) 

Myopia and Discounting 
November 4, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Warren Hall 208

Spring 2015

• Dr. Drazen Prelec (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Self-Signaling 
February 5, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall 

• Dr. Yael Niv (Princeton University) 

What is the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in reinforcement learning?
February 26, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall

• Dr. Tom Cunningham (IIES and California Institute of Technology) 

Hierarchical Aggregation of Information and Decision-Making
March 31, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 311 Warren Hall

• Dr. Benedetto DeMartino (University of Cambridge) 

Imperfect choice and the brain: confidence in value-based judgments
April 30, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall

Fall 2014

• Dr. Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)

Intelligence and Social Behavior
September 22nd, 2014, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 326 Uris Hall

• Dr. Josh Gold (University of Pennsylvania)

October 22nd, 2014, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Room 326 Uris Hall

• Dr. Lorenz Goette (University of Lausanne)

November 20th, 2014, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren

Spring 2014

• Dr. Michael Shadlen (Columbia University)

Decision Neuroscience Colloquium 
April 9th, 2014 - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Uris Hall Faculty Lounge

• Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

Scarcity: A Talk for People Too Busy to Attend Talks
March 31, 2014

Spring 2013

• Nassim Taleb (NYU Polytechnic Institute)

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
April 4th, 2013 - 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Uris 301

• Martin Weber (Uni Mannheim)

Time Inconsistent Preferences and the Annuitization Decision
April 4th, 2013 - 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm Uris 333

Spring 2012

• Public Policy and Choice Architecture lecture series

Shlomo Benartzi (UCLA and SaveMoreTomorrow)
Save More Tomorrow: Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401(k) Plans
March 27th, 2012

• Co-Sponsored with the Finance and Economics Division

David Hirshleifer (UC Irvine)
Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias and Active Investing
April 5th, 2012 (Special time 2:15-3:45pm - Uris 332)

• Public Policy and Choice Architecture lecture series

Todd Rogers (Harvard and ideas42)
The Psychology of Voting: Increasing Turnout with Behavioral Science
April 11th, 2012

Fall 2011

• Daniel Kahneman (Princeton)

Thinking, Fast and Slow
October 10th, 2011

• Dan Goldstein (Yahoo! Research/London Business School)

Targeting and Diffusion with Social Networks
December 8th, 2011

Fall 2011

• Antonio Rangel (Caltech)

The neuroeconomics of complex choice: self-control and altruism
March 1st, 2012