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  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
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  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1960 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

George Loewenstein is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences with significant contributions in subfields including sociology and political science, general decision sciences, economics and econometrics, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including decision-making and behavioral economics, experimental behavioral economics studies, behavioral health and interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, misinformation and its impacts, financial markets and investment strategies, and social and intergroup psychology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by George Loewenstein include:

  • The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray, 2022, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age, 2020, Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science, 2021, Nature
  • The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on the Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Loewenstein include Nick Chater, András Molnár, Erin Carbone, Dor Morag, and Samantha Horn.

Their publications appear often in several key venues particularly in SSRN Electronic Journal, with 39 publications, followed by publications in AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Management Science, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), and JAMA Network Open.

Loewenstein has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by RAND Corporation eBooks: "RAND Behavioral Finance Forum: Financial Security Over the Lifespan" from 2020.

Throughout their career, George Loewenstein has received several awards, including being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2010, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1960.

Best Publications

  • Risk as feelings.

    George F. Loewenstein;Elke U. Weber;Christopher K. Hsee;Ned Welch

  • Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review

    Shane Frederick;George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

    Samuel M. McClure;David I. Laibson;George Loewenstein;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Out of control: Visceral influences on behavior

    George Loewenstein

  • The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation.

    George Loewenstein

  • Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics

    Colin Camerer;George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review

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  • Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation

    George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling

    Leslie K. John;George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • The role of affect in decision making.

    George Loewenstein;Jennifer S. Lerner

  • Advances in Behavioral Economics

    Colin F. Camerer;George Loewenstein;Matthew Rabin

  • Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for Asymmetric Paternalism

    Colin Camerer;Samuel Issacharoff;George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue

  • Time-inconsistent Preferences and Consumer Self-Control

    Stephen J. Hoch;George F. Loewenstein

  • The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt

    Drazen Prelec;George Loewenstein

  • Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

    Alessandro Acquisti;Laura Brandimarte;George Loewenstein

  • “Coherent Arbitrariness”: Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences

    Dan Ariely;George Loewenstein;Drazen Prelec

  • Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior

    George Loewenstein

  • ANTICIPATION AND THE VALUATION OF DELAYED CONSUMPTION

    George Loewenstein

  • Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases

    Linda Babcock;George Loewenstein

  • Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility

    George Loewenstein;Ted O'Donoghue;Matthew Rabin

  • Social Utility and Decision Making in Interpersonal Contexts

    George F. Loewenstein;Leigh Thompson;Max H. Bazerman

  • Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, Future

    Colin F. Camerer;George Loewenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin G. Volpp
Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania
Peter A. Ubel
Peter A. Ubel Duke University
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Max H. Bazerman
Max H. Bazerman Harvard University
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Leaf Van Boven
Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder
Ted O'Donoghue
Ted O'Donoghue Cornell University
Samuel M. McClure
Samuel M. McClure Arizona State University

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