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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
102
Citations
42663
World Ranking
78
National Ranking
42

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
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Max H. Bazerman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing on decision sciences, psychology, economics, and management.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Healthcare Policy and Management

Their research covers various subfields such as:

  • Applied Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Max H. Bazerman has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Don A. Moore
  • Ariella Kristal
  • Ashley V. Whillans
  • Joshua D. Greene

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science, 2021, Nature
  • Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Veil-of-ignorance reasoning mitigates self-serving bias in resource allocation during the COVID-19 crisis, 2021, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Leadership & overconfidence, 2022, Behavioral Science & Policy
  • Contents, 2022, Yale University Press eBooks

Publications appear in venues such as:

  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Behavioral Science & Policy
  • Yale University Press eBooks

Their book publications include works released by prestigious academic presses. Titles include:

  • Complicit, published twice in 2022 by Princeton University Press
  • Decision Leadership, published twice in 2022 by Yale University Press
  • The Power of Experiments, published in 2020 by The MIT Press

Among the recognitions received, Max H. Bazerman has been named Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

    Max H. Bazerman

  • Social Utility and Decision Making in Interpersonal Contexts

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

  • Preference reversals between joint and separate evaluations of options: A review and theoretical analysis.

    Christopher K. Hsee;George F. Loewenstein;Sally Blount;Max H. Bazerman

  • Cognition and Rationality in Negotiation

    Margaret Ann Neale;Max H. Bazerman

  • Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting

    Lisa D. Ordóñez;Maurice E. Schweitzer;Adam D. Galinsky;Max H. Bazerman

  • Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    Max H. Bazerman;Ann E. Tenbrunsel

  • Conflicts Of Interest And The Case Of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction And Strategic Issue Cycling

    Don A. Moore;Philip E. Tetlock;Lloyd Tanlu;Max H. Bazerman

  • BLIND SPOTS IN INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS OF INTERFIRM (MIS)PERCEPTIONS FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS

    Edward J. Zajac;Max H. Bazerman

  • The Effects of Framing and Negotiator Overconfidence on Bargaining Behaviors and Outcomes

    Margaret A. Neale;Max H. Bazerman

  • Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting

    Lisa L. Shu;Francesca Gino;Max H. Bazerman

  • Why good accountants do bad audits.

    Max H Bazerman;George Loewenstein;Don A Moore

  • negotiating with Yourself and Losing: Making Decisions with Competing Internal Preferences

    Max H. Bazerman;Ann E. Tenbrunsel;Kimberly Wade-Benzoni

  • Integrative bargaining in a competitive market

    Max H Bazerman;Thomas Magliozzi;Margaret A Neale

  • The Impossibility of Auditor Independence

    Max H. Bazerman;Kimberly P. Morgan;George Loewenstein

  • Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end

    Lisa L. Shu;Nina Mazar;Francesca Gino;Dan Ariely

  • Predictable surprises : the disasters you should have seen coming, and how to prevent them

    Max H. Bazerman;Michael Watkins

  • When perspective taking increases taking: reactive egoism in social interaction.

    Nicholas Epley;Eugene M. Caruso;Max H. Bazerman

  • Bounded Ethicality as a Psychological Barrier to Recognizing Conflicts of Interest

    Dolly Chugh;Max H. Bazerman;Mahzarin R. Banaji

  • Heuristics in Negotiation: Limitations to Effective Dispute Resolution

    Max H. Bazerman;Margaret A. Neale

  • Predictable Surprises

    Max H. Bazerman;Michael D. Watkins

  • Negotiating in Organizations

    Max H. Bazerman;Roy J. Lewicki

  • The Construction of Preference: Preference Reversals Between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Options: A Review And Theoretical Analysis

    Christopher K. Hsee;George Loewenstein;Sally Blount;Max H. Bazerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino Harvard University
Margaret A. Neale
Margaret A. Neale Stanford University
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson Northwestern University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew J. Hoffman
Andrew J. Hoffman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
David M. Messick
David M. Messick Northwestern University
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley University of Chicago
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University

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