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Eldar Shafir

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Eldar Shafir's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Psychology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Eldar Shafir is an American behavioral scientist, and the co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much . He is the Class of 1987 Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University Department of Psychology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and Inaugural Director of Princeton’s Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy,.

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Eldar Shafir's Published Works

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Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function (2013) (1891)
Reason-based choice (1993) (1445)
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013) (1262)
Some Consequences of Having Too Little (2012) (1061)
Choice under Conflict: The Dynamics of Deferred Decision (1992) (998)
Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice (1992) (635)
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment (2009) (590)
The Disjunction Effect in Choice under Uncertainty (1992) (579)
Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are both better and worse than others (1993) (545)
Category-Based Induction (1990) (482)
A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty (2004) (469)
Medical decision making in situations that offer multiple alternatives. (1995) (372)
The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy (2013) (362)
Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision Making among the Poor (2006) (340)
Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans (2011) (332)
Scarcity Frames Value (2015) (299)
Deep thoughts and shallow frames; on the susceptibility to framing effects. (2003) (230)
The Conflicting Choices of Alternating Selves (2010) (214)
Misremembrance of Options Past: Source Monitoring and Choice (2000) (164)
On the pursuit and misuse of useless information. (1998) (146)
The Martyrdom Effect: When Pain and Effort Increase Prosocial Contributions (2011) (136)
An advantage model of choice (1989) (130)
Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment (2011) (125)
THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015) (116)
Savings policy and decisionmaking in low-income households (2009) (112)
Similarity, plausibility, and judgments of probability (1993) (104)
Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy (2005) (94)
Uncertainty and the difficulty of thinking through disjunctions (1994) (91)
The interaction between reasoning and decision making: an introduction (1993) (90)
Invest now, drink later, spend never: On the mental accounting of delayed consumption (2006) (90)
Self-Affirmation Among the Poor (2014) (88)
Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor (2018) (87)
Behaviorally Informed Financial Services Regulation (2008) (74)
The long and short of it: physical anchoring effects (2006) (70)
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough (2014) (67)
Remembering chosen and assigned options (2003) (65)
The Advantage Model: A Comparative Theory of Evaluation and Choice under Risk (1993) (62)
Why some are perceived as more confident and more insecure, more reckless and more cautious, more trusting and more suspicious, than others: Enriched and impoverished options in social judgment (1999) (55)
Anchoring on the "here" and "now" in time and distance judgments. (2009) (54)
The Beguiling Pursuit of More Information (2001) (52)
Invest Now, Drink Later, Spend Never: The Mental Accounting of Delayed Consumption (2006) (49)
Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can be Worth More and Less than $20 (2010) (48)
Now that i think about it, i'm in the mood for laughs: decisions focused on mood (2006) (45)
The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2009) (42)
On Assets and Debt in the Psychology of Perceived Wealth (2012) (42)
MISPERCEPTION IN CHOOSING MEDICARE DRUG PLANS (2008) (40)
Forming beliefs about adjudicated outcomes: Perceptions of risk and reservation values (1995) (40)
Prospect Theory and Political Analysis: A Psychological Perspective' (1992) (40)
Compatibility in Cognition and Decision (1995) (38)
Reasoning and decision making (1994) (36)
Decisions in poverty contexts. (2017) (35)
Nonconsequential Reasoning and Its Consequences (2000) (32)
An exercise in self-replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012) (2019) (32)
Some origins of belief (1986) (29)
Pitfalls of judgment during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (29)
Are ‘nudges’ getting a fair shot? Joint versus separate evaluation (2020) (27)
Freeing Up Intelligence (2013) (23)
Decision making and policy in contexts of poverty (2013) (23)
Scarcity and Cognitive Function around Payday: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis (2020) (23)
Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces (2019) (22)
Response to Comment on “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” (2013) (22)
Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2012) (20)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation (2008) (19)
Questioning the cheater-detection hypothesis: New studies with the selection task (2005) (17)
Context and Conflict in Multiattribute Choice (2008) (17)
Philosophical intuitions and cognitive mechanisms. (1998) (17)
Probability Bootstrapping: Improving Prediction by Fitting Extensional Models to Knowledgeable but Incoherent Probability Judgments (1997) (14)
Why even good physicians do not wash their hands (2015) (13)
The full moon and motorcycle related mortality: population based double control study (2017) (13)
Effect of Background Case Characteristics on Decisions in the Delivery Room (2010) (11)
Ignoring alarming news brings indifference: Learning about the world and the self (2017) (10)
Preference, belief, and similarity : (2016) (10)
A Source of Bayesian Priors (1995) (10)
Problems and methods in naturalistic decision‐making research (2001) (10)
Chapter 6 - The Psychology of Construal in the Design of Field Experimentsa (2017) (9)
Ampliative inference: on choosing a probability distribution (1993) (9)
Thinking about Politics: Comparisons of Experts and Novices (1992) (9)
Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy: Cognition, Intuition, and Policy Guidelines (2001) (8)
Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: The Martyrdom Effect Increases Willingness to Sponsor Others’ Painful and Effortful Prosocial Acts (2018) (8)
Belief and Decision: The Continuing Legacy of Amos Tversky (1999) (8)
A Behavioral Background for Economic Policy (2007) (8)
Extrapolating human probability judgment (1994) (7)
Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces (2019) (7)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Regulation (2008) (6)
Extracting the coherent core of human probability judgement: a research program for cognitive psychology (1994) (6)
The thick skin bias in judgments about people in poverty (2020) (6)
Decision Biases, Cognitive Psychology of (2001) (6)
Association of socioeconomic status with medical assistance in dying: a case–control analysis (2021) (6)
The Workings of Choosing and Rejecting: Commentary on Many Labs 2 (2018) (5)
14. Decisions constructed locally: some fundamental principles of decision making (2007) (4)
Manipulated as a Way of Life (2016) (4)
Social benefit payments and acute injury among low-income mothers (2012) (4)
Anandi Mani Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function (2013) (3)
How Much Does Psychology Matter ? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market (2005) (3)
Introduction [The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy] (2012) (3)
An Opt-Out Home Mortgage System (2008) (3)
Mental Accounting in the Context of Poverty (2012) (2)
Choice Set Size Shapes Self-Expression (2022) (2)
An opportunity for self-replication (2018) (2)
POVERTY AND CIVIL RIGHTS: A BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE (2014) (2)
Context, conflict, weights, and identities: some psychological aspects of decision making (2003) (2)
An advantage model of risky choice (1988) (1)
The Lunacy of Motorcycle Mortality (2018) (1)
Chapter 16. Decision Making and Policy in Contexts of Poverty (2013) (1)
The Construction of Preference: Reason-Based Choice (2006) (1)
Thinking About Scarcity (2014) (1)
Obituary: Amos Tversky (1937-1006). (1998) (1)
Temporary Self-Deprivation Can Impair Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Ramadan Fast (2022) (1)
Forming Beliefs about Adjudicated Outcomes: Risk Attitudes, Uncertainty, and Reservation Values (1994) (1)
On the nonapplicability of a rational analysis to human cognition (1991) (1)
The Essential Tversky (2018) (1)
Authors’ response: hand washing is about respect for patients (2016) (0)
The Scarcity Mindset and Its Consequences (2014) (0)
Chapter 26 Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2013) (0)
Broadcast distraction_BLP ES SJW (2015) (0)
The “Martyrdom Effect”: When the Prospect of Pain and Effort Increases Charitable Giving (2009) (0)
chapter 2 The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation (2009) (0)
From the Executive Board (1994) (0)
HAMILTON THE PROJECT Advancing Opportunity , Prosperity and Growth (2006) (0)
Behavioral Decision Research: A Survey of Issues Theoretical and Applied. (1991) (0)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Money Illusion (2004) (0)
Rational agents, real people and the quest for optimality (1991) (0)
Reasoning: Category-Based Induction (2008) (0)
Study 1 a : Trade-Off Thinking Under Scarcity Method (2015) (0)
The Fallacy of a Single Diagnosis (2022) (0)
Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation Draft 4 / 15 / 2008 (2008) (0)
Nonconsequential Reasoning and Its (2016) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
A Ramadan Induced Scarcity Mindset (2020) (0)
An opportunity for self-replication (2018) (0)
Evans, J. St. BT, 165 (1993) (0)
A Behavioral Economics View of Poverty The Harvard made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2005) (0)

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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

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