Last week I moved from the United States back to Australia to begin working as a lecturer in the marketing group of RMIT University’s School of Economics, Finance and Marketing. (For those of you who don’t know, in Australia a “lecturer” is equivalent to the academic rank of tenure-track assistant professor.) I’ll be helping to teach “Marketing …
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May 16 2014
Video of me presenting at the 2014 Duke University Energy Research Collaboration Workshop
Earlier this month I participated in the 2014 Duke University Energy Research Collaboration Workshop, which was sponsored by the Duke University Energy Initiative and open to Duke University faculty, research staff, and their students interested in energy. The presentations focused on recent energy-related research by Duke faculty, staff and students. I was part of session focused on the a behavioral science …
May 16 2014
Time Magazine piece on my recently published experiments on encouraging efficient vehicle choices
This week my paper with Rick Larrick was published in the Spring edition of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. The paper, which can be found here, is called “Metric and scale design as choice architecture tools” and discusses a simple way to increase consumer’s preferences for more fuel efficient vehicles: to present the …
Feb 26 2014
A new video on choice architecture and translated attributes
This is my first video summarizing the general topic of “choice architecture” followed by some specific examples in my own research with translating attributes. [transcript] You can read about one of the papers mentioned in the video here: Camilleri, A. R. & Larrick, R. P. (2014). Metric and scale design as choice architecture tools. Journal of Public Policy …
Oct 23 2013
In Boston to attend a workshop evaluating the energy efficiency gap
The energy efficiency gap refers to the difference between the optimal and actual level of energy consumption. Why don’t people invest in energy saving initiatives when it would benefit both the individual and society? I’m attending a research workshop conducted by the Duke University Energy Initiative and the Harvard Environmental Economics Program at the Harvard Kennedy …
Oct 10 2013
Traveled to DC to speak with the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Together with Rick Larrick and Christoph Ungemach, I traveled to DC earlier this month to speak to members of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. We specifically got to meet the team who designed the new US fuel economy label: We got to present our work to the whole team, including Sarah Froman, Lisa Snapp, Nicole Meyer, Amy …
Aug 03 2013
Awarded the America Australia Association Fellowship
After braving the America Australia Association panel, which included two former chief scientists of Australia, I have been awarded an American Australian Fellowship to continue my postdoctoral work at Duke. The fellowship is generously sponsored by the Alcoa Foundation. You can read about my fellow fellows here. Memorably, I met the panel after traveling more than …
Aug 03 2013
Heading to Boston next week for the 2013 Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference
I’ll be heading to Boston next week for the 2013 Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference. There will be a lot of interviewing! Hope to see you there 🙂
Jul 14 2013
New paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing
Rick Larrick and I have put together an interesting paper called “Scale and metric design as choice architecture tools”, which is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. Here is the abstract: There has been a growing interest in using behavioral decision insights to design better product labels. One specific policy target is the fuel economy …
Mar 29 2013
Giving two talks on translated attributes at the 2013 Marketing & Public Policy Conference in Washington DC
I will be presenting two talks at the Marketing & Public Policy Conference 2013, which is being held in downtown Washington DC between May 30th and June 1st. The first presentation – Translated Attributes as a Choice Architecture Tool: Trick & Treat – will be part of the session “004. Consumer Responses to How Product Attributes …