Our Team

About our Team

S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Studies and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania; Founding director of Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences; Director, Philosophy, Politics & Economics Program; Head, Behavioral Ethics Lab, University of Pennsylvania

Cristina Bicchieri

Director

S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Studies and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania; Founding director of Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences; Director, Philosophy, Politics & Economics Program; Head, Behavioral Ethics Lab, University of Pennsylvania.
About the Center
Managing Director, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Paulius Yamin
Professor of Political Economy at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium
Councilor of the Vatican City State
Advisory Board Member, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Sr. Alessandra Smerilli
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and the Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women’s Health
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Associate Director, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Associate Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
Alison Buttenheim
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Endowed Term Chair in Global Women’s Health,
University of Pennsylvania
Anne Teitelman
I. George Heyman University Professor, Professor of Psychology and Marketing,
University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Mellers
Associate professor of Psychology and Director of the Human Behavior and Origins Laboratory (HBO lab), University of Pennsylvania
Coren Apicella
Professor,
Annenberg School for Communication
School of Arts and Sciences & School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Director, Network Dynamics Group, University of Pennsylvania
Damon M. Centola
Associate Director,
Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences (MBDS) Program, University of Pennsylvania
Daniella Diniz
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure)
University of Pennsylvania
David Dillenberger
Professor of Economics,
Loughborough University
Enrique Fatas
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics,
School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania
Gareth Roberts
Associate Professor of Political Science,
School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania
Guy Grossman
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography,
University of Pennsylvania
Hans-Peter Kohler
Professor Emeritus of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Baron
Baird Term Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
Joseph W. Kable
Managing Director, North America at the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT)
Center Board Member
Michael Hallsworth
Senior Faculty Fellow & Director of Post-Graduate Programs, Perry World House
Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Member, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Michael Weisberg
Senior research fellow, Department of Psychology,
Lecturer at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Nazli Bhatia
Former Managing Director, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Peter McNally
Annenberg University Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Psychology Department
Wharton School
Phillip E. Tetlock
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Rinad Beidas
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Sudeep Bhatia
Professor of Social Policy
Professor of Health & Societies
Senior Fellow in Public Health
Director, Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse
Susan Sorenson

Core Team

Research Specialist,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Ammar Plumber
Associate Professor of Practice
University of Pennsylvania
Eugen Dimant
Research Specialist,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Jinyi Kuang
Research Scientist,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Sania Ashraf
Post-doctoral Fellow (2019-Present), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
University of Pennsylvania,
Weiwei Tasch
Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
University of Pennsylvania
William Berger
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Pennsylvania
Abraham Navarrete
Senior Data Research Scientist,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Alex Shpenev
Anubha Tyagi
Post-doctoral Fellow (2018-Present), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, University of Pennsylvania
Giuseppe Danese
PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Sciences
Raj Patel
Research Specialist,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Sarah Girard
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Pennsylvania
Upasak Das

Affiliated Members

Visiting Scholar, Goldstone Research Unit
Alex Chavez
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Funcke
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2013 – 2016)
Annalisa Marini
Senior Lecturer,
Luiss Guido Carli
Giuacomo Sillari
Ambizione Fellow,
Université de Neuchâtel
Hugo Mercier
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Fribourg
Jana Freundt
Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Affiliated Members, Behavioral Ethics Lab
Marta Maras
Deputy Head of Behavioural Insights and Lead Behavioural Scientist, Public Health England
Affiliated Member, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Natalie Gold
Technical Research Analyst, MDRC
Rachel Sander
MindCORE sponsored Postdoctoral Scholar, (2020-present)
Social and Cultural Evolution Working Group,
University of Pennsylvania
Rafael Ventura
Behavioral Consultant (Penn SoNG)
Dual Master in Public Policy (at Harvard Kennedy School) and a Master in Business Adminstration (at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth).
Expected graduation date: 2022
Samuel Gant
Affiliated Member, Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Associate Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College
Syon Bhanot
Coordinator, Hybrid and Online Nonprofit Leadership Program
School of Social Policy and Practice
Molly Sinderbrand
Affiliated Member,
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
Clarissa Busch
Applied Behavioral Science Lead, RARE
Erik Thulin
Professor, Department of Economics
Monash University, Australia
Affiliated Member, Behavioral Ethics Lab
Erte Xiao
Graduate Student (Ph.D.) in Philosophy
Javier Guillot
Affiliated Member, Center for Social Norms
Professor of Political Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Lorena Levano
Graduate Student in Philosophy,
University of Pennsylvania
Marie Barnett
Redistricting Researcher, Brennan Center of Justice
New York University School of Law
Affiliated Members, Behavioral Ethics Lab
Peter Miller
Assistant Professor,
University of Buffalo
Ryan Muldoon
Visiting Scholar,
University of Pennsylvania
Sakshi Ghai
Affiliated Member,
Penn SoNG
Thomas Noah
Lecturer & Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics BA/BSc Programme, King's College London
Affiliated Member, Behavioral Ethics Lab
Roberto Fumagalli
Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidad del Valle,
Research Group Director E-SocialS: Experimental Socials Sciences and Behavioural Change
Lina Restrepo-Plaza
Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Member, Behavioral Ethics Lab
University of Pennsylvania
Sebastiano Bavetta