Behavioral science focuses on how people use information and make decisions and how they interact with one another in dyads, groups, and organizations. Studies in this area draw on theory and research from cognitive and social psychology, economics, and other related fields.

Behavioral science applies these disciplines to the study of human behavior relevant to a range of different managerial contexts. Examples include:

Students may design their research based on their intellectual interests in business and other areas, as well as on their career intentions. Behavioral science students take courses in other departments such as psychology, sociology, public policy, and economics, depending on what is most relevant to their research.

The Behavioral Science program also offers theJoint Program in Psychology and Business,which is run jointly by the behavioral science dissertation area at Chicago Booth and theDepartment of Psychology in the Division of theSocial Sciences at the University of Chicago.

For more details about the PhD Program in behavioral science at Chicago Booth, see General Examination Requirements - By Area in the PhD Program Guidebook (PDF).

To learn more about the research being done by current PhD students, please view alisting of proposals and defenses across dissertation areas.

Meet the Faculty Explore research interests, publications, and course offerings of Behavioral Science Dissertation Area faculty.

Christopher Bryan Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Psychological influence, behavioral decision-making, and political psychology with a particular interest in psychology as it relates to social and public policy Faculty Profile

Eugene Caruso Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Social judgment, group decision making and negotiation, egocentrism, perspective taking, and ethics Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Nicholas Epley John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: The experimental study of social cognition, perspective-taking, and intuitive human judgment Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Ayelet Fishbach Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

Research Interests: Social psychology, with specific emphasis on motivation, emotion, and decision making Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Reid Hastie Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Judgment and decision making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and personal), memory and cognition, and social psychology Faculty Profile

Christopher Hsee Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

Research Interests: The interplay among psychology and economics, happiness, marketing, and cross-cultural psychology Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Ann McGill Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing, and Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Consumer and manager decision making, with special emphasis on causal explanations, differences in judgments in public and private, and the use of imagery in product choice Faculty Profile

Ed O'Brien Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Social cognition and hedonic processes Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Devin Pope Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, with special interest in empirically testing the impact of psychological biases in economic markets Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Jane Risen Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Judgment and decision making, belief formation, magical thinking, stereotyping and prejudice, and managing emotion Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Anuj Shah Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

Research Interests: How decision makers deal with limited resources Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Thomas Talhelm Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: How culture affects the way we behave Faculty Profile

Richard Thaler Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science Economics Faculty Director, Center for Decision Research

Research Interests: Behavioral economics and finance; the psychology of decision making Faculty Profile | Personal Website

Bernd Wittenbrink Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: Experimental social psychology, specifically the influence of stereotypes on social judgments Faculty Profile | Personal Website

George Wu John P. and Lillian A. Gould Professor of Behavioral Science

Research Interests: The psychology of individual, managerial, and organizational decision making; decision analysis; and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation Faculty Profile | Personal Website

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