Carey K. Morewedge is a Professor of Marketing, Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and Chair of the Marketing Department at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. As a psychologist, Professor Morewedge uses experiments to examine causes, consequences, and the correction of biases in consumer judgment and decision making. The substantive focus of his research explores how psychological processes influence the value of goods, experiences, money, and new technologies such as digital goods and artificial intelligence.
He has received more than $2.4 million in external research funding and awards for his research and teaching, including the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Best Paper award from the Journal of Consumer Research, recognition as a MSI Scholar, an Idea of the Year from The New York Times, inclusion in Poets and Quant's Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors, and Favorite Elective Professor from the Full Time MBA Class of 2019 at Boston University.A prolific scholar, Professor Morewedge has published in numerous academic journals including Science, PNAS, Nature Medicine, Nature Human Behavior, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Psychological Science. His popular writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and Harvard Business Review.
Professor Morewedge received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Before joining Boston University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Social and Decision Sciences and Marketing departments. He has also been a visting Fellow of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.