Faculty Members
Cristina Bicchieri
J. P. Harvie Professor of Philosophy and Psychology
Interests: The intersection of philosophy, psychology and economics. Lab and field experiments on fairness, trust, and cooperation. Measuring social norms experimentally, eliciting expectation
Jonathan Baron
Professor of Psychology
Interests: Intuitions and judgment biases that impede maximization of utility (good) by democratic government: parochialism, the act-omission distinction, moralistic values, and the isolation effect; experimentation and data analysis.
Joe Kable
Baird Term Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: how people make choices, and the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying decision-making
Method: combining approaches from experimental economics, the psychology of judgment and decision-making, and social and cognitive neuroscience.
Barbara Mellers
George Heyman University Professor
Interests: Decision Processes; Emotions; Fairness; Preference Measurement ; Policy Implications
Sudeep Bhatia
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Interests: Cognitive mechanisms involved in judgment and decision making; Mathematical and computational modeling; Behavioral economics.
Enrique Fatas
Professor of Economics – Loughborough University
Interests: Behavioral economics, conflict and organizational behavior.
Damon Centola
Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Social Epidemiology, Collective Action and Collective Behavior, Social Networks, Web-Based Experiments, Online Health Policy, Computational and Agent Based Modeling
Hans-Peter Kohler
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography & Professor of Sociology, at the University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Demography, Low and Lowest-Low Fertility, Global Health, Economic Development, Twin Studies
Anne Teitelman
Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Endowed Term Chair in Global Women’s Health, at the University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Health promotion and advocacy, especially through primary health care with underserved populations
Fellows
Jana Freundt
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 – 2019)
Interests: behavioral economics, philosophy & economics, especially people’s redistribution preferences and fairness judgments, ethical behavior in markets, endogenous institutions and decision rights, freedom of choice; Methods: experiments, surveys
Abraham Aldama Navarrete
Postdoctoral Researcher (2019 – Present)
Interests: Comparative politics, political economy and political psychology, with a particular interest in developing countries.
Eugen Dimant
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 – 2018)
Interests: Behavior Ethics, Crime Economics, Corruption, and Migration
Giuseppe Danese
PPE Fellow (2018 – Present)
Interests: Behavioral Economics, Economic Anthropology, Law and Economics, Business Ethics, Neuroeconomics.
William (Zev) Berger
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017 – Present)
Interests: Public opinion and behavior, applied political theory, social and political epistemology, democratic theory, epistemic democracy, religion and politics.
Weiwei Tasch
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019 – Present)
My research interests are in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics. In particular, my work focuses on decision making related to social preferences and demand for information about others’ economic behavior and outcome—“social curiosity”— in social dilemmas, both theoretically and empirically.
Alex Shpenev
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Social Networks, Family, Health and Inequality, Educational Gradients, Formal Demography, Historical Demography.
Andres Casas
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Social Norms Group (PENN SoNG)
Sania Ashraf
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Global Health, Childhood infectious diseases, Sanitation, Hygiene, LMIC.
Raj Patel
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Political philosophy, Philosophy, politics, and economics, The political economy of corruption
Affiliated Members
Alexander Funcke
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 – 2019)
Interests: Social Norm Dynamics, Classifications and Preference Formations
Upasak Das
Presidential Fellow (Academic), Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Interests: Behavioral economics, conflict and organizational behavior.
Sebastiano Bavetta
Professor of Economics at the University of Palermo (Italy)
Research Associate at the London School of Economics (UK).
Interests: Freedom and its behavioral, policy and political implications.
Ryan Muldoon
Assistant Professor, Unviersity at Buffalo
Interests: Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Social Science
Lorena Levano
Penn SoNG Members
David Dillenberger
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Microeconomic Theory and Decision Theory
Erte Xiao
Associate Professor at Monash University
Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Physchology and Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Game Theory
Peter Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 – 2016)
Interests: Redistricting, Voting and Political Behavior, Electoral Systems, Public Opinion, Political Institutions, and Human Rights
Hugo Mercier
Ambizione Fellow at Université de Neuchâtel
Interests: Cognition and Culture
Annalisa Marini
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2013 – Present)
Interests: Bayesian Econometrics, Behavioral Economics, Cultural and Institutional Economics, Econometrics, Economic Growth, Evolutionary Dynamics, Social Interactions Models
Giacomo Sillari
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Luiss Guido Carli – Roma
Interests: Behavioral Economics, Social Norms, Game Theory, Philosophy of Social Sciences
Marta Maras
Assistant Professor
Gettysburg College
Interests: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Pro-social Behavior, Altruism, Decision Making, Behavioral Finance
Coren Apicella
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Professor Apicella’s work specializes in mate selection and attraction, behavioral endocrinology, behavior genetics, sex differences, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology and social networks and the evolution of cooperation.
Alex Chavez
Visiting Scholar, Goldstone Research Unit
Interests: social norms; statistics; big data
Roberto Fumagalli
Lecturer & Coordinator of PPE Program, King’s College London
Research Associate at the London School of Economics
Interests: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Social and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Public Policy; Metaphysics.
Erik Thulin
Postdoctoral Fellow – Social Norms and Sanitation Project
Interested in the underpinnings, both ultimate and proximate, of pro-social and moral behavior. Particularly interested in how people respond to violations of social norms and how these responses may be what allows humans to cooperate on such large scales.
Thomas Noah
Graduate Student in Philosophy & Member Penn SoNG (2013-Present)
Interested in Ethics and Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Mind and Psychology, Social Philosophy (including Philosophy of Social Science), Political Philosophy, Philosophical Methodology.
Samuel Gant
Behavioral Consultant, Penn SoNG (2017-2019)
Sakshi Ghai
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Students
Marie Barnett
Interests: My main research interests lie in the areas of philosophy of social science and decision theory. In particular, I am interested in exploring the ways in which philosophical analysis of psychological concepts can be used to improve the explanatory and predictive power of Icek Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior.
Clarissa Busch
Interests: Philosophy of science, philosophy of the social sciences, social epistemology
Jinyi Kuang
Research Assistants
Sarah Girard
