Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions

Decisions Under Scarcity

Saturday, May 28, 2011, 2:50 PM - 3:25 PM
International Ballroom West

Eldar Shafir
Princeton University

Scarcity underlies many decision-making contexts, from time scarcity among the busy to money scarcity among the poor. We will explore decisions under scarcity, which is likened to traveling through life with a stuffed suitcase that offers no slack. The behaviors and policy implications that emerge from scarcity will be discussed.

This is part of the Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions Theme Program. Additional Speakers

Eldar Shafir in the news: The Globe and Mail (Aug 31, 2010) and Money Life (Dec 16, 2010).

Subject Area: Choices: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Bases of Economic Decisions