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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
91
Citations
65460
World Ranking
170
National Ranking
82

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Eric Johnson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, general decision sciences, economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, and applied psychology.

The main topics of Johnson's work focus on decision-making and behavioral economics, economic and environmental valuation, climate change communication and perception, environmental education and sustainability, behavioral health and interventions, consumer market behavior and pricing, and digital marketing and social media.

Johnson has published in several respected venues, with frequent publications appearing in the Journal of Marketing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, npj Urban Sustainability, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Manuscript Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Johnson include:

  • Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices, 2021, Theory and Decision
  • Do Nudges Reduce Disparities? Choice Architecture Compensates for Low Consumer Knowledge, 2021, Journal of Marketing
  • Local warming is real: A meta-analysis of the effect of recent temperature on climate change beliefs, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Exposing omitted moderators: Explaining why effect sizes differ in the social sciences, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence, 2024, Nature Climate Change

Frequent collaborators with Johnson include Elke U. Weber, Kellen Mrkva, Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb, Nathaniel A. Posner, and Crystal Reeck.

Best Publications

  • The adaptive decision maker

    John W. Payne;James R. Bettman;Eric J. Johnson

  • Gambling with the house money and trying to break even: the effects of prior outcomes on risky choice

    R. H. Thaler;E. J. Johnson

  • The adaptive decision maker: Frontmatter

    John W. Payne;James R. Bettman;Eric J. Johnson

  • Affect, Generalization, and the Perception of Risk.

    Eric J Johnson;Amos Tversky

  • Adaptive Strategy Selection in Decision Making.

    John W Payne;James R Bettman;Eric J Johnson

  • Do Defaults Save Lives

    Eric J. Johnson;Daniel Goldstein

  • Behavioral decision research: A constructive processing perspective.

    John W. Payne;James R. Bettman;Eric J. Johnson

  • Mindful judgment and decision making

    Elke U. Weber;Eric J. Johnson

  • Product familiarity and learning new information

    Eric J. Johnson;J. Edward Russo

  • Predictors of online buying behavior

    Steven Bellman;Gerald L. Lohse;Eric J. Johnson

  • Framing, Probability Distortions, and Insurance Decisions

    Eric J. Johnson;John Hershey;Jacqueline Meszaros;Howard Kunreuther

  • Effort and Accuracy in Choice

    Eric J. Johnson;John W. Payne

  • Modeling Loss Aversion and Reference Dependence Effects on Brand Choice

    Bruce G. S. Hardie;Eric J. Johnson;Peter S. Fader

  • Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

    Eric J. Johnson;Suzanne B. Shu;Benedict G. C. Dellaert;Craig Fox

  • On the Depth and Dynamics of Online Search Behavior

    Eric J. Johnson;Wendy W. Moe;Peter S. Fader;Steven Bellman

  • Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice

    Bernd Figner;Daria Knoch;Eric J Johnson;Amy R Krosch;Amy R Krosch

  • When Web Pages Influence Choice: Effects of Visual Primes on Experts and Novices

    Naomi Mandel;Eric J. Johnson

  • The validity of verbal protocols.

    J. Edward Russo;Eric J. Johnson;Debra L. Stephens

  • A Componential Analysis of Cognitive Effort in Choice

    James R Bettman;Eric J Johnson;John W Payne

  • Consumer buying behavior on the Internet: Findings from panel data

    Gerald L. Lohse;Steven Bellman;Eric J. Johnson

  • The Construction of Preference: Do Defaults Save Lives?

    Eric J. Johnson;Daniel G. Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
John W. Payne
John W. Payne Duke University
Daniel G. Goldstein
Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)
James R. Bettman
James R. Bettman Duke University
Benedict G. C. Dellaert
Benedict G. C. Dellaert Erasmus University Rotterdam
David A. Schkade
David A. Schkade University of California, San Diego
J. Edward Russo
J. Edward Russo Cornell University
Richard P. Larrick
Richard P. Larrick Duke University
Sankar Sen
Sankar Sen City University of New York
Gretchen B. Chapman
Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University

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