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D-Index
54
Citations
25093
World Ranking
4488
National Ranking
2490

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Eldar Shafir is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including applied psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and general decision sciences. The major topics addressed in their work cover behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as economic theories and models.

The scholar has published notable papers, some of which are:

  • Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis (2020) in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
  • Pitfalls of Judgment during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) in The Lancet Public Health
  • Association of Socioeconomic Status with Medical Assistance in Dying: A Case-Control Analysis (2021) in BMJ Open
  • Involving Schoolchildren in Radon Surveys by Means of the "RadonTest" Online System (2020) in Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • The Thick Skin Bias in Judgments about People in Poverty (2020) in Behavioural Public Policy

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Donald A. Redelmeier, Nathan N. Cheek, Sendhil Mullainathan, Jiaying Zhao, and Anandi Mani.

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as Medical Decision Making, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, The Lancet Public Health, and BMJ Open.

Recognition for their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Poverty impedes cognitive function

    Anandi Mani;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir;Jiaying Zhao

  • Reason-based choice

    Eldar Shafir;Itamar Simonson;Amos Tversky

  • Some Consequences of Having Too Little

    Anuj K. Shah;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

    Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • Choice Under Conflict: The Dynamics of Deferred Decision

    Amos Tversky;Eldar Shafir

  • Category-Based Induction

    Daniel N. Osherson;Edward E. Smith;Ormond Wilkie;Alejandro López

  • Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice ☆

    Eldar Shafir;Amos Tversky

  • What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

    Marianne Bertrand;Dean S. Karlan;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty

    Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • The Disjunction Effect in Choice Under Uncertainty

    Amos Tversky;Eldar Shafir

  • Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are both better and worse than others

    Eldar Shafir

  • Medical Decision Making in Situations That Offer Multiple Alternatives

    Donald A. Redelmeier;Eldar Shafir

  • Scarcity Frames Value

    Anuj K. Shah;Eldar Shafir;Sendhil Mullainathan

  • Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making Among the Poor

    Marianne Bertrand;Eldar Shafir;Sendhil Mullainathan

  • Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making Among the Poor

    Marianne Bertrand;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir

  • Comparison friction: experimental evidence from medicare drug plans.

    Jeffrey R. Kling;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir;Lee C. Vermeulen

  • Deep thoughts and shallow frames; on the susceptibility to framing effects.

    Robyn A. LeBoeuf;Eldar Shafir

  • The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy

    Eldar Shafir

  • The Martyrdom Effect: When Pain and Effort Increase Prosocial Contributions

    Christopher Yves Olivola;Eldar Shafir

  • Misremembrance of Options Past: Source Monitoring and Choice

    Mara Mather;Eldar Shafir;Marcia K. Johnson

  • The Construction of Preference: Reason-Based Choice

    Eldar Shafir;Itamar Simonson;Amos Tversky

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel N. Osherson
Daniel N. Osherson Princeton University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov University of Chicago
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
A. Peter McGraw
A. Peter McGraw University of Colorado Boulder
Marcia K. Johnson
Marcia K. Johnson Yale University
Mara Mather
Mara Mather University of Southern California
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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