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Irwin P. Levin is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including social sciences and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, general decision sciences, sociology and political science, and education.

The main topics of their work cover behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, autism spectrum disorder research, social and intergroup psychology, child development and digital technology, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

The scientist has published research in several journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Acta Psychologica, and UNC Libraries.

  • Revisiting attribute framing: The impact of number roundedness on framing (2020, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
  • Thinking about decisions: An integrative approach of person and task factors (2020, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making)
  • Relating social skills and social media use to consumer behavior: An investigation across the autism spectrum (2022, Journal of Consumer Behaviour)
  • Increased levels of autistic traits are associated with atypical moral judgments (2023, Acta Psychologica)
  • Sincere or exciting? Brand personality and argument quality on brand attitude (2022, Journal of Consumer Behaviour)

Levin has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Gary J. Gaeth, Gaurav Jain, Dhananjay Nayakankuppam, Todd McElroy, and David L. Dickinson.

Best Publications

  • All Frames Are Not Created Equal: A Typology and Critical Analysis of Framing Effects

    Irwin P. Levin;Sandra L. Schneider;Gary J. Gaeth

  • How Consumers Are Affected by the Framing of Attribute Information Before and After Consuming the Product

    Irwin P. Levin;Gary J. Gaeth

  • A new look at framing effects: Distribution of effect sizes, individual differences, and independence of types of effects

    Irwin P. Levin;Gary J. Gaeth;Judy Schreiber;Marco Lauriola

  • Personality traits and risky decision-making in a controlled experimental task: An exploratory study.

    Marco Lauriola;Irwin P Levin

  • The Interaction of Experiential and Situational Factors and Gender in a Simulated Risky Decision-Making Task

    Irwin P. Levin;Mary A. Snyder;Daniel P. Chapman

  • Need for Cognition and Choice Framing Effects

    Stephen M. Smith;Irwin P. Levin

  • More than Meets the Eye: The Effect of Missing Information on Purchase Evaluations

    Richard D. Johnson;Irwin P. Levin

  • Neural correlates of adaptive decision making for risky gains and losses.

    Joshua A. Weller;Irwin P. Levin;Baba Shiv;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • Risk preferences in young children: early evidence of individual differences in reaction to potential gains and losses

    Irwin P. Levin;Stephanie S. Hart

  • Individual Differences in Risky Decision Making: A Meta‐analysis of Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

    Marco Lauriola;Angelo Panno;Irwin P. Levin;Carl W. Lejuez

  • Information Processing at Successive Stages of Decision Making: Need for Cognition and Inclusion-Exclusion Effects.

    Irwin P. Levin;Mary E. Huneke;J.D. Jasper

  • The impact of prior risk experiences on subsequent risky decision-making: the role of the insula.

    Gui Xue;Zhonglin Lu;Irwin P. Levin;Antoine Bechara

  • Associative effects of information framing

    Irwin P. Levin

  • Information framing effects in social and personal decisions

    Irwin P Levin;Sara K Schnittjer;Shannon L Thee

  • Framing effects in judgment tasks with varying amounts of information

    Irwin P Levin;Richard D Johnson;Craig P Russo;Patricia J Deldin

  • Functional Dissociations of Risk and Reward Processing in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Gui Xue;Zhonglin Lu;Irwin P. Levin;Joshua A. Weller

  • Modeling the Role of Brand Alliances in the Assimilation of Product Evaluations

    Irwin P. Levin;Aron M. Levin

  • Dissecting the risky-choice framing effect: Numeracy as an individual-difference factor in weighting risky and riskless options.

    Ellen Peters;Irwin P. Levin

  • Trajectory of risky decision making for potential gains and losses from ages 5 to 85.

    Joshua A. Weller;Irwin P. Levin;Natalie L. Denburg

  • Relating individual differences in attitude toward ambiguity to risky choices

    Marco Lauriola;Irwin P. Levin

  • Age-related differences in adaptive decision making: Sensitivity to expected value in risky choice

    Irwin P. Levin;Joshua A. Weller;Ashley A. Pederson;Lyndsay A. Harshman

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Marco Lauriola
Marco Lauriola Sapienza University of Rome
Gui Xue
Gui Xue Beijing Normal University
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Patricia J. Deldin
Patricia J. Deldin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Alice M. Isen
Alice M. Isen Cornell University
Natalie L. Denburg
Natalie L. Denburg University of Iowa
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
John F. Knutson
John F. Knutson University of Iowa

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