George Loewenstein, Ph.D.
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
George Loewenstein, Ph.D., is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the founders of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, he is also an originator, and now a critic, of the approach to public policy known as “nudge.” His current research spans attention, information avoidance, curiosity, boredom, the role of emotions in economic behavior, and when and why we care about what goes on in other people’s minds.
Loewenstein received his doctorate from Yale in 1985 and has held positions at the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon, along with fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the London School of Economics. He is a past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Loewenstein’s new book is The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us.
