Speaker Series
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
Other Seminars
Fall 2018
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
- Antonio Rangel (Caltech)
The neuroeconomics of complex choice: self-control and altruism
March 1st, 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