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 …

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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 …

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In San Francisco/Sacramento to present at the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference

I’m excited to make my way over the US west-coast to participate in the 2013 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change conference, which is being held November 18-20 in Sacramento, CA. The conference is focused on understanding the behavior and decision-making of individuals and organizations and on using that knowledge to accelerate our transition to an …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 🙂

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 …

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In Melbourne to speak at the World Marketing Congress

I’ll be giving a talk at the 2013 World Marketing Congress 17-20 July in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday July 17th. I am speaking in a session called 1.2. Consumer Behavior General, which will be held between 8.30 – 10am.

Heading to NYC for the Choice Architecture Workshop and the annual meeting of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions

On May 7th and 8th, Columbia University will hold an invitation-only Choice Architecture Workshop, designed to talk about nudges that go beyond simple defaults and also explore potential applications.  I’m looking forward to hearing many interesting talks, especially those from Cass Sunstein, Eric Johnson, Dan Goldstein. Together with Christoph Ungemach, I will be giving a talk the afternoon of the …

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