George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a founder of the fields of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, and one of the leading thinkers examining the relationship between economics and psychology. The author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, he has written or edited six books on topics ranging from inter-temporal choice to behavioral economics to emotions. His most recent book is Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Professor Loewenstein received his PhD from Yale University in 1985 and has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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