Behavioral Science involves research on how people make judgments and decisions, and how they interact with one another. Research in this area draws on theory and methods from cognitive and social psychology, economics, and other related fields. Behavioral Science applies these disciplines to study human behavior in a wide range of managerial and organizational contexts. Examples include:
Students focus their studies on the subset of research topics that best fit their interests and career goals and augment their studies with work in one of several support areas, which include:
Further, studies in Behavioral Science can be paired with studies in Marketing for a focus on consumer behavior, with Finance for a focus on financial decision making, and with many other scholarly fields. In addition to courses offered at Chicago Booth, students take courses in Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, and other university departments.
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 and FMC Faculty Scholar
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 and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow
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
Emma Levine Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
Research Interests:Interpersonal trust and ethical decision-making; the tension between honesty and benevolence. Faculty Profile
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 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 Associate 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 and Economics 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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