Ownership.
Bias. AI.
Carey is Chair of the Marketing Department and the Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He studies the biases that shape decision-making in a technology-driven world. Carey’s research examines how people make choices about what to own, use, and trust—and how emerging technologies like algorithms and AI are transforming those decisions.
Carey has helped organizations, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Pinterest, Merck, and Leidos, better understand how people think and design interventions to make better decisions. He has taught thousands of students across Boston University, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard to diagnose bias and improve judgment.
His research has appeared in Science, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Marketing. He is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, his writing has appeared in The New York Times and TIME, and Carey has appeared on NPR, the BBC, and ABC World News Tonight.