Behavioral Economics & Decision Research (BEDR)

Fall 2025

DATE: Tuesday, August 27
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
EVENT: BEDR Internal Showcase will feature presentations from distinguished faculty members, highlighting their latest research and contributions to the field:
• Jessica Salerno – Psychology
• Sam Hirshman – Marketing
• Jordan Wylie – Psychology

DATE: Tuesday, September 2
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
PRESENTER: Johannes Haushofer, Cornell University
Presenting: “The Shape of Forgetting”

DATE: Thursday, September 11
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 12:00 – 1:20 pm (Joint seminar w/ Management & Organizations/ILROB)
PRESENTER: Nick Epley, University of Chicago
Presenting: “Surprisingly in Sync: Overlooking Responsiveness in Conversation as a Source of Social Connection”

DATE: Tuesday, September 16
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
PRESENTER: Dan Benjamin, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenting: “Adjusting for Scale Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being”

DATE: Tuesday, September 30
LOCATION: B10 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
PRESENTER: Jillian Jordan, Harvard Business School
Presenting: “How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking”

DATE: Friday, October 17
LOCATION: Alice B. Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall
TIME: 4:00-5:00 pm
EVENT: A Conversation with Richard H. Thaler –
Richard Thaler is a former professor at the Johnson School of Management and received the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics,
much of which occurred during his tenure at Cornell. We welcome him back to campus for a Q&A on the occasion of publication of his new
book Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now.

DATE: Tuesday, November 4
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
PRESENTER: Steve Sloman, Brown University
Presenting: “TBD”

DATE: Tuesday, November 18
LOCATION: B01 Sage Hall
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 pm
PRESENTER: Sule Alan, Cornell University
Presenting: “From Teacher Intelligence to Student Reasoning: Development of Cognitive and Higher-Order Thinking Skills in the Classroom”