John Clithero

"To the degree that these tools are saving time and energy, I am not seeing researchers reinvest those savings into developing a deeper understanding of their subject matter, making connections to new ideas, or otherwise investing in advancing their current skillset."

Wonderful essay.

Continue to be amazed by and draw research inspiration from vision science

Opinion | Here Is the Science of Why You Doomscroll

What a wonderful essay in the NYTimes by Emily Falk @falklab.bsky.social that blends together many #neuroeconomics results www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...

Defragmenting psychology - Nature Human Behaviour Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on the field to defragment psy...

"Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looks like a very cool paper!

Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments (Fall 2024) - Incentive compatibility is core to mechanism design. The success of auctions, matching algorithms, and voting systems all hinge on the ability to select incentives that make it in the in...

"Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments" www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior Everyone agrees that feelings and actions are intertwined, but cannot agree how. According to dominant models, actions are directed by estimates of va…

Adding this to my reading pile: "The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior"

So true and so much more clever than my "misc 4" folder this year.

The Economics of Social Media (December 2024) - We provide a guide to the burgeoning literature on the economics of social media. We first define social media platforms and highlight their unique features. We then synthesize the m...

Timely article in latest JEL issue: "The Economics of Social Media"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything An in-depth analysis of how humanity's compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience.The minute we are born—sometimes even before—w

Just finished reading "Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything"
Highly recommended! Both serious and entertaining examples of how categorization is challenging.
direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Looks like an interesting read for #neuroeconomics folks

More ongoing great threads about complexity in decision making

Uma @umakarma.bsky.social did make a #neuroeconomics one that has a good number of marketing folks in it bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Looks like a very cool paper! "Predicting and Understanding Individual-Level Choice Under Risk" eml.berkeley.edu/~kariv/EKO_I...

Wish there was a way to have animated figures more organically in more academic papers

Looks like an excellent resource!

Toward an Integrative Conceptualization of Maladaptive Consumer Behavior | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research: Vol 6, No 3 Abstract Consumer research has explored several dimensions of maladaptive decision-making, including compulsive consumption and behavioral addiction. Here we propose extending this work by integrating...

Lots of new followers! Hi! Here is a 2021 piece in JACR w/ @umakarma.bsky.social and Ming Hsu: "Toward an Integrative Conceptualization of Maladaptive Consumer Behavior" we combine concepts from marketing, psychiatry, and #neuroeconomics www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Very excited about this paper w/ Moriah Stendel and @robchavez.bsky.social "Computational Mechanisms of Self-enhancement During Social Comparison and their Relationship to Internalizing Symptoms" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great #neuroeconomics starter pack!

Supervised Machine Learning for Eliciting Individual Demand (November 2023) - The canonical direct-elicitation approach for measuring individuals' valuations for goods is the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure, which generates willingness-to-pay (WTP) values th...

"Supervised Machine Learning for Eliciting Individual Demand" published last year in AEJ Micro w/ Josh Tasoff and JJ Lee. For those interested in choice prediction, WTP elicitation, and machine learning applied to experimental data.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Reconsidering the path for neural and physiological methods in consumer psychology Recent decades have witnessed a burst of neuroscience research investigating mental and physiological processes central to consumer behavior, including sensory perception, memory, and decision making...

New account here so I will mention some of my recent papers!

Here is one earlier this year in JCP, with @umakarma.bsky.social , Gideon Nave, & Hilke Plassmann: "Reconsidering the path for neural and physiological methods in consumer psychology" myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks for creating this! If possible, I'd be grateful to be added!

Just joined! Will be looking for #marketing #decisionmaking #jdm #consumerneuroscience #neuroeconomics