Publications (Click title to download/request a PDF.)
Morewedge, C. K., Naushan, H. F., & Mullainathan, S. (In press). Decisions with algorithms. In D. T. Gilbert, S. Fiske, E. Finkel, and W. Mendes (eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th edition.
Lee, C. Y., & Morewedge, C. K. (In press). Mental accounting of product returns. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Shachar, C., Cadario, R., Cohen, I. G., & Morewedge, C. K. (In press). HIPAA is a misunderstood and inadequate tool to protect patient health medical data. Nature Medicine.
Morewedge, C. K. & Weiss, L. (In press). Psychological ownership: Actors’ and observers’ perspectives. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary).
Lee, C. Y., & Morewedge, C. K. (In press). Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary).
Morewedge, C. K. (2022). Preference for human, not algorithm aversion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26 (10), 824-826.
Morewedge, C. K., (2022). Confirmation bias in journalism: What it is and strategies to avoid it. The Journalist's Resource.
Whitley, S., Garcia-Rada, X., Bardhi, F., Ariely, D., & Morewedge, C. K. (2022). Relational spending in funerals: Caring for others loved and lost. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 32(2), 211-231.
Yoon, H., Yang, Y., & Morewedge, C. K. (2022). Early cost realization and college choice. Journal of Marketing Research, 59 (1), 136-152.
Lee, C.Y., & Morewedge, C. K. (2022). Noise increases anchoring effects. Psychological Science, 33(1), 60-75.
Morewedge, C. K. (2022). When we don't own things we use, will we still love them? MIT Sloan Management Review, 63(2), 16-18.
Cadario, R. & Morewedge, C. K. (2022). Why do people eat the same breakfast every day? Goals and circadian rhythms of variety seeking in meals. Appetite, 168(1), 105716.
Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Why you eat the same thing for breakfast every day. Time Magazine.
Cadario, R., Longoni, C.& Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artifical intelligence. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1636-1642.
Longoni, C., Cadario, R., & Morewedge, C. K. (September 3, 2021). For patients to trust medical AI, they need to understand it. Harvard Business Review (digital).
Imas, A., Loewenstein, G., & Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Mental money laundering: A motivated violation of fungibility. Journal of European Economic Association, 19 (4), 2209-2233.
Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Psychological ownership: Implicit and explicit. Current Opinion in Psychology, 39, 125-132.
Putnam-Farr, E., & Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Which social comparisons influence happiness with unequal pay? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(3), 570-582.
Morewedge, C. K., Monga, A., Palmatier, R., Shu, S., & Small, D. (2021). Evolution of consumption: A psychological ownership framework. Journal of Marketing, 85(1), 196-218.
Yoon, H., Scopelliti, I., & Morewedge, C. K. (2021). Decision making can be improved through observational learning. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 155-188.
Longoni, C., Bonezzi, A., & Morewedge, C.K. (2020). Resistance to medical artificial intelligence is an attribute in a compensatory decision process: response to Pezzo and Becksted (2020). Judgment and Decision Making, 15(3), 446-448.
Longoni, C., Bonezzi, A., & Morewedge, C. K. (2019). Resistance to medical artificial intelligence. Journal of Consumer Research,46(4), 629--650.
Longoni, C., & Morewedge, C. K. (October 30, 2019). AI can outperform doctors. So why don't patients trust it? Harvard Business Review, digital.
Morewedge, C. K. (October 29, 2019). How to stop cognitive bias from affecting our decisions. The Hill (Op-ed).
Sellier, A. L., Scopelliti, I., & Morewedge, C. K. (October 8, 2019). New evidence reveals training can reduce cognitive bias and improve decision making. Forbes (Op-ed).
Sellier, A. L., Scopelliti, I., & Morewedge, C. K. (2019). Debiasing training improves decision making in the field. Psychological Science, 30(9), 1371-1379.
Stimuli and Data: https://osf.io/mnz8j/
Morewedge, C. K., Zhu, M, & Buechel, E. C. (2019). Hedonic contrast effects are larger when comparisons are social. Journal of Consumer Research, 46(2), 286-302.
Lee, C. Y., Morewedge, C. K., Hochman, G., & Ariely, D. (2019). Small probabilistic discounts stimulate spending: Pain of paying in price promotion. Journal of the Association of Consumer Research, 4(2),160-171.
Putnam-Farr, E., & Morewedge, C. K. (2019). Comparing one and many: Insights from judgment and decision making for social comparison. In J. Suls, R. L. Collins, and L. Wheeler (eds.), Social Comparison in Judgment and Behavior. Oxford University Press (pp. 386-429).
Atasoy, O., & Morewedge, C. K. (2018). Digital goods are valued less than physical goods. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(6), 1343-1357.
Scopelliti, I., Min, H. L., McCormick, E., Kassam, K. S., & Morewedge, C. K. (2018). Individual differences in correspondence bias: Measurement, consequences, and correction of biased interpersonal attributions. Management Science, 64 (4), 1879-1910.
Morewedge, C. K., Tang, S., & Larrick, R. P. (2018). Betting your favorite to win: Costly reluctance to hedge desired outcomes. Management Science, 64(3), 997-1014.
Stimuli and Data: https://osf.io/p2gj6/
Morewedge, C. K., & Kupor, D. M. (2018). When the absence of reasoning breeds meaning: Metacognitive appraisals of spontaneous thought. In K. Fox and K. Christoff (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind wandering, Creativity, Dreaming, and Clinical Disorders (pp 35-46). Oxford University Press.
Tang, S., Morewedge, C. K., Larrick, R. P., & Klein, J. (2017). Disloyalty aversion: Greater reluctance to bet against close others than the self. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 140, 1-13.
Buechel, E. C., Zhang, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2017). Impact bias or underestimation? Outcome specifications predict the direction of affective forecasting errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(5), 746-761.
Symborski, C., Barton, M., Quinn, M. M., Korris, J. H., Kassam, K. S., & Morewedge, C. K. (2017). The design and development of serious games using iterative evaluation. Games and Culture, 12(3), 252-268.
Huh, Y. E., Vosgerau, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2016). Selective sensitization: Consuming a food activates a goal to consume its complements. Journal of Marketing Research, 53(6), 1034-1049.
Morewedge, C. K. (October 16, 2016). Why you should bet against your candidate. The New York Times, SR 9.
Lau, T., Morewedge, C. K., & Cikara, M. (2016). Overcorrection for social categorization information moderates impact bias in affective forecasting. Psychological Science, 27(10), 1340-1351.
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Kappes, H. B., & Morewedge, (2016). Mental simulation as substitute for experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10(7), 405-420.
Huh, Y. E., Vosgerau, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2016). More similar but less satisfying: Comparing the efficacy of within- and cross-category substitutes for food. Psychological Science, 27(6), 894-903.
Morewedge, C. K. (May 13, 2016). Why buyers and sellers inherently disagree on what things are worth. Harvard Business Review (digital).
Morewedge, C. K. (2016). Utility: Anticipated, Experienced, and Remembered. In G. Keren and G. Wu (Eds.), Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (pp. 295-330). Malden, MA: Blackwell Press.
Scopelliti, I., Morewedge, C. K., McCormick, E., Min, H. L., LeBrecht, S., & Kassam, K. S. (2015). Bias blind spot: Structure, measurement, and consequences. Management Science, 61(10), 2468-2486.
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Morewedge, C. K., Yoon, H., Scopelliti, I., Symborski, C., Korris, J., & Kassam, K. S. (2015). Debiasing decisions: Improved decision making with a single training intervention. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2(1), 129-140.
Morewedge, C. K. (October 13, 2015). How a video game helped people make better decisions. Harvard Business Review (digital).
Morewedge, C. K., & Giblin, C. E. (2015). Explanations of the endowment effect: An integrative review. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(6), 339-348.
Morewedge, C. K., & Hershfield, H. (2015). Consumer prediction: Forecasted utility, psychological distance, and their intersection. In M. I. Norton, D. Rucker, and C. Lamberton (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology (pp. 65-89). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Hamerman, E. J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2015). Reliance on luck: Identifying which achievement goals elicit superstitious behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(3), 323-335.
Huh, Y. E., Vosgerau, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2014). Social defaults: Observed choices become choice defaults. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(3), 746-760.
Morewedge, C. K., Giblin, C. E., & Norton, M. I. (2014). The (perceived) meaning of spontaneous thoughts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1742-1754.
Garbinsky, E. N., Morewedge, C. K., & Shiv, B. (2014). Interference of the end: Why recency bias in memory determines when a food is consumed again. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1466-1474.
Garbinsky, E. N., Morewedge, C. K., & Shiv, B. (2014). Does liking or wanting determine repeat consumption delay? Appetite, 7(1), 59-65.
Morewedge, C. K., Krishnamurti, T., & Ariely, D. (2014). Focused on unfairness: Alcohol intoxication increases the costly rejection of inequitable rewards. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50(1), 15-20.
Buechel, E. C., Zhang, J., Morewedge, C. K., & Vosgerau, J. (2014). More intense experiences, less intense forecasts: Why affective forecasters overweight probability specifications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(1), 20-36.
Buechel, E. C., & Morewedge, C. K. (2014). The (relative and absolute) subjective value of money. In E. H. Biljleveld and H. Aarts (Eds.), The Psychological Science of Money (pp. 93-120). New York, NY: Springer.
Morewedge, C. K., & Buechel, E. C. (2013). Motivated underpinnings of the impact bias in affective forecasts. Emotion, 13(6), 1023-1029.
Morewedge, C. K. (2013). It was a most unusual time: How memory bias engenders nostalgic preferences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(4), 319-326.
Morewedge, C. K., Chandler, J., Smith, R., Schwarz, N., & Schooler, J. (2013). Lost in the crowd: Entitative group membership diminishes mind attribution. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1195-1205.
Giblin, C. E., Morewedge, C. K., & Norton, M. I. (2013). Unexpected benefits of deciding by mind wandering. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(598), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00598.
Morewedge, C. K., & Todorov, A. (2012). The least likely act: Overweighting atypical past behavior in behavioral predictions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(6), 760-766.
Cryder, C. E., Springer, S., & Morewedge, C. K. (2012). Guilty feelings, targeted actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(5), 607-618.
Kassam, K. S., Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). Winners love winning and losers love money. Psychological Science, 22, 602-606.
Morewedge, C. K., Huh, Y. E., & Vosgerau, J. (2010). Thought for food: Imagined consumption reduces actual consumption. Science, 303, 1530-1533.
Haran, U., Moore, D. A., & Morewedge, C. K. (2010). A simple remedy for overprecision in judgment. Judgment and Decision Making, 5(7), 467-476.
Morewedge, C. K., & Kahneman, D. (2010). Associative processes in intuitive judgment. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 435-440.
Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Myrseth, K. O. R., Kassam, K. S., & Wilson, T. D. (2010). Consuming experiences: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 986-992.
Waytz, A., Morewedge, C. K., Epley, N., Montelone, G., Gao, J. H., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). Making sense by making sentient: Effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(3), 410-435.
Morewedge, C. K., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2010). Perish the forethought: Premeditation engenders misperceptions of personal control. In R. Hassan, K. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Self-control in brain, mind, and society (pp. 260-278). New York: Oxford University Press.
Morewedge, C. K. (2009). Negativity bias in attribution of external agency. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 138(4), 535-545.
Morewedge, C. K., Shu, L. L., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2009). Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 947-951.
Morewedge, C. K., Kassam, K. S., Hsee, C. K., & Caruso, E. M. (2009). Duration sensitivity depends on stimulus familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 138(2), 177-186.
Morewedge, C. K., & Norton, M. I. (2009). When dreaming is believing: The (motivated) interpretation of dreams. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2), 249-264.
Morewedge, C. K., & Clear, M. E. (2008). Anthropomorphic God concepts engender moral judgment. Social Cognition, 26(2), 181-188.
Morewedge, C. K., Holtzman, L., & Epley, N. (2007). Unfixed resources: Perceived costs, consumption, and the accessible account effect. Journal of Consumer Research, 34(December), 459-467.
Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Keysar, B., Berkovits, M. J., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 136, 700-709.
Morewedge, C. K., Preston, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Timescale bias in the attribution of mind. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(1), 1-11.
Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2005). The least likely of
times: How remembering the past biases forecasts of the future. Psychological Science, 16(8), 626-630.
Gilbert, D. T., Morewedge, C. K., Risen, J. L., & Wilson, T. D. (2004). Looking forward to looking backward: The misprediction of regret. Psychological Science 15(5), 346-350.
Epley, N., Morewedge, C. K., & Keysar, B. (2004). Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(6), 760-768.
Gilbert, D. T., Lieberman, M., Morewedge, C. K., & Wilson, T. D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15(1), 14-19. *Editor’s Choice Article (2004). Science, 303, 436.