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February 2019
CANCELED: Shane Frederick: Valuing Bets and Hedges: Implications for the Construct of Risk Preference
Please note that this seminar will be rescheduled. Please stay posted. Professor, Marketing, Yale School of Management Abstract: Risk attitudes implied by valuations of risk-increasing assets depart markedly from those implied by valuations of risk- reducing assets. For instance, many are unwilling to pay the expected value for a risky…
Details & RegistrationWiN Student Society Monthly Meeting
All Penn-affiliated students are encouraged to join us for the monthly Wharton Neuroscience Initiative’s Student Society general meeting. Dinner will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
Details & Registration“The Psychology of Nuclear Decision Making” with Paul Slovic, William Burke-White and Howard Kunreuther
Paul Slovic, founder and President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, will present a paper entitled “The Caveman and the Bomb: Psychological Obstacles to Rational Decision Making about the Use of Nuclear Weapons”. Abstract: Shortly after the dawn of the nuclear era, psychologists and…
Details & RegistrationMarch 2019
Arthur J. Robson: Simon Fraser University
University Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University Professor Robson has been persuaded for about 20 years by the idea that a strong light can be shed on modern human economic behavior by considering its biological and anthropological basis. He will be giving a Micro Theory Special Seminar in the…
Details & RegistrationRebecca Saxe: MIT
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology For more information about the Saxe Lab: http://saxelab.mit.edu
Details & RegistrationWiN Student Society Monthly Meeting
All Penn-affiliated students are encouraged to join us for the monthly Wharton Neuroscience Initiative’s Student Society general meeting. Dr. Josh Gold will present at this meeting on his research and its implications for neuroscience and business. More details coming soon. Dinner will be provided on a first come, first served…
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