Speakers

Drazen Prelec has been a member of the Sloan faculty since 1991, with joint appointments in the MIT Departments of Economics, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph. D in Experimental Psychology and AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He became involved with behavioral economics as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has pursued this interest with fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford CASBS, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and, most recently, All Souls College, Oxford. His current work focuses on non-verifiable subjective judgments (‘crowd wisdom’), and the application of mechanism design to neuroscience (‘neural economics’). He remains interested in the limitations of rational models for human agency, especially in connection with non-causal motivation and self-signaling.