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Psychology D-index 49 Citations 20,192 104 World Ranking 3978 National Ranking 2288

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Awards & Achievements

2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2012 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social psychology
  • Statistics
  • Epistemology

His primary scientific interests are in Social psychology, Positive economics, Poverty, Behavioral economics and Marketing. In his work, Eldar Shafir performs multidisciplinary research in Social psychology and Decision problem. His study in Positive economics is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Event and Outcome.

The Poverty study combines topics in areas such as Demographic economics, Financial management, Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance, Cognitive load and Scarcity. The various areas that he examines in his Behavioral economics study include Social psychology, Minor and Public economics. In the subject of general Marketing, his work in Consumer choice is often linked to Intervention, thereby combining diverse domains of study.

His most cited work include:

  • Reason-based choice (1180 citations)
  • Poverty impedes cognitive function (1017 citations)
  • Choice Under Conflict: The Dynamics of Deferred Decision (728 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Social psychology, Poverty, Cognitive psychology, Behavioral economics and Scarcity. His Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Outcome, Preference and Normative. His Poverty research incorporates elements of Positive economics, Demographic economics and Development economics.

His Positive economics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Management, Genius and Corporate finance. His Cognitive psychology study combines topics in areas such as Cognitive science, Task and Perception. His Behavioral economics research integrates issues from Loan, Public policy, Marketing and Interest rate.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Social psychology (30.89%)
  • Poverty (13.01%)
  • Cognitive psychology (12.20%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2020)?

  • Social psychology (30.89%)
  • Scarcity (9.76%)
  • Poverty (13.01%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Social psychology, Scarcity, Poverty, Self-replication and Cognitive psychology. His work deals with themes such as Test and Normative, which intersect with Social psychology. He has researched Scarcity in several fields, including Cognitive load, Cash flow and Consumption.

His Cognitive load study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Positive economics and Public economics. Eldar Shafir interconnects Admiration, Cognitive resource theory and Demographic economics in the investigation of issues within Poverty. The Cognitive psychology study which covers Similarity that intersects with Preference.

Between 2015 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor (27 citations)
  • Decisions in poverty contexts. (14 citations)
  • Are ‘nudges’ getting a fair shot? Joint versus separate evaluation (12 citations)

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Best Publications

Poverty impedes cognitive function

Anandi Mani;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir;Jiaying Zhao.
Science (2013)

2552 Citations

Reason-based choice

Eldar Shafir;Itamar Simonson;Amos Tversky.
(1993)

2174 Citations

Some Consequences of Having Too Little

Anuj K. Shah;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir.
Science (2012)

1417 Citations

Choice Under Conflict: The Dynamics of Deferred Decision

Amos Tversky;Eldar Shafir.
Psychological Science (1992)

1181 Citations

Category-Based Induction

Daniel N. Osherson;Edward E. Smith;Ormond Wilkie;Alejandro López.
Psychological Review (1990)

1125 Citations

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir.
(2013)

961 Citations

Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice ☆

Eldar Shafir;Amos Tversky.
Cognitive Psychology (1992)

814 Citations

The Disjunction Effect in Choice Under Uncertainty

Amos Tversky;Eldar Shafir.
Psychological Science (1992)

722 Citations

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

Marianne Bertrand;Dean S. Karlan;Sendhil Mullainathan;Eldar Shafir.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)

705 Citations

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

Eldar Shafir.
Memory & Cognition (1993)

698 Citations

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