Carey K. Morewedge

Carey K. Morewedge is a Professor of Marketing and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University. His research examines the psychological causes, consequences, and correction of bias in judgment and decision making. Using a mix of laboratory, field, and longitudinal experiments, he tackles basic and applied problems from why people won’t bet against their children, political parties, and favorite teams to developing interventions used by US intelligence services to reduce cognitive bias and improve individuals’ decision making. His research at the Shorenstein Center focuses on developing interventions to improve decision making for groups ranging from government intelligence analysts to young children, and he is developing a new theoretical framework to explain how human decision processes are becoming a collaborative process with algorithms. Prior to beginning his position at Boston University, Professor Morewedge was a Postdoc at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and served on the faculty as the Director of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University. His PhD is in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Awards recognizing his work include Marketing Institute Scholar in 2018, Top 40 Under 40 MBA Professors from Poets & Quants in 2016, Most Theoretically Innovative Article of the Year from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 2010, and Ideas of the Year from the New York Times in 2009.