Craig Fox
Professor of Policy & Psychology at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Schools
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Biography
Craig Fox studies behavioral decision theory. Specifically, his research investigates how people make judgments and decisions under conditions of risk, uncertainty and ambiguity. He uses a combination of empirical methods including surveys, laboratory and field studies, and neuroimaging. His research has been published in top journals of management, psychology, economics, neuroscience, law, and general science. In addition to his post at UCLA Anderson, Dr. Fox holds a joint appointment as Professor of Psychology in the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences and Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. He joined the UCLA Anderson faculty in 2003 after more than six years on the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he remains an adjunct faculty member. He is co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Interdisciplinary Group in Behavioral Decision Making. Professor Fox is founding co-editor of the forthcoming journal Behavioral Science and Policy. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Judgment and Decision Making, and was formerly on the board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a former Associate Editor of Management Science. Dr. Fox currently teaches an elective course in Managerial Decision Making at UCLA Anderson and has taught core courses in Leadership and Strategy, as well as electives in Negotiation and Managerial Improvisation. He also teaches Ph.D. seminars in behavioral decision theory. Dr. Fox has previously taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Columbia Business School, and Stanford University. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Mannheim, and Hebrew University.
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Craig Fox, PhD is Harold Williams Professor of Management, and also Professor of Psychology and Medicine at UCLA. He is chair and co-founder of the Behavioral Decision Making Area at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Dr. Fox’s award-winning research investigates behavior under risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity, using a combination of methods that include surveys, laboratory and field experiments, analysis of archival data, and brain imaging. He also applies insights from behavioral economics and social psychology to improve health and financial decisions. This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation, among others. His scientific manuscripts have been published in leading journals of psychology, economics, management, neuroscience, medicine, law, and general science. He has also contributed popular treatments of his work to such outlets as the New York Times and Harvard Business Review.
Professor Fox has taught courses at the MBA, Executive, and Ph.D. levels on decision making, strategy, negotiation, leadership, and dynamic management. He has been at UCLA since 2003, following six years at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he was named the 2001 “Outstanding Faculty Member”. Fox has also taught courses at Stanford, Northwestern, and Columbia Universities as well as Koç University (Istanbul) and the Australian Graduate School of Management (Sydney). He has been a visiting scholar at NYU, Columbia University, The Hebrew University, and the University of Mannheim.
Dr. Fox is founding co-editor of the journal Behavioral Science & Policy and co-President of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. He is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
Fox earned his B.A. in Psychology and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was mentored by Daniel Kahneman, and he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Stanford University, where he was mentored by Amos Tversky.
### Education
- Ph.D., M.A. Psychology, 1990–94 Stanford University
- B.A. Economics and Psychology, 1989, University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
Publications
- Tannenbaum, D., Fox, C.R., & Ülkümen, G. (in press). Judgment extremity and accuracy under epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty. Management Science, forthcoming.
- Ülkümen, G., Fox, C.R., & Malle, B.F. (in press). On the dual nature of uncertainty: Cues from natural language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, forthcoming.
- Fox, C., Erner, C., & Walters, D. (2016). Decision under risk: From the field to the lab and back. In G. Keren & G. Wu (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making,Blackwell.
- Meeker, D., Linder, J.A., Fox, C.R., Friedberg, M.W., Persell, S.D., Goldstein, N.J., Knight, T.K., Hay, J.W. & Doctor, J.N. (2016). Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing among primary care practices:A randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 315, 562-570.
- Fox, C.R. & Sitkin, S. (2015). Bridging the divide between behavioral science and policy. Behavioral Science & Policy, 1, 1-12.
- Tannenbaum, D., Doctor, J.N., Persell, S.D., Friedberg, M.W., Meeker, D., Friesema, B.A., Goldstein, N.J., Linder, J.A. & Fox, C.R. (2015). Nudging physician decisions by partitioning the order set: Results of a vignette-based study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30, 298-304.
- Linder, J.A., Doctor, J.N., Friedberg, M.W., Reyes, N.H., Birks, C., Meeker, D. & Fox, C.R. (2014). Time of day and the decision to prescribe antibiotics. JAMA Internal Medicine.
- Fox, C., Erner, C., & Walters, D. (forthcoming). Decision under risk: From the field to the lab and back. In G. Keren & G. Wu (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making,Blackwell.
- Meeker, D., et al. (2014) Nudging guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern Med.
- De Palma, A., et al. (2014). Beware of black swans and do not ignore white ones? [Under publication review].
- Fox, C.R., & Poldrack, R.A. (2014). Prospect theory and the brain. In P. Glimcher & E. Fehr (Eds.), Handbook of neuroeconomics (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Elsevier.
- Barkley-Levenson, E., & Fox, C. R. (2013). The surprising relationship between indecisiveness and impulsivity. Working paper.
- Fernbach, P.,M., Rogers, T., Fox, C.R., & Sloman, S.A. (2013). Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding. Psychological Science, 24, 939-946.
Videos
Behavioral science insights for communication. Interview with Craig Fox.
Brain Imaging Sheds New Light on Human Risk Responses
TED Week 2013: Craig Fox on Whether Knowledge Is Power
Craig Fox Discusses Research on Indecisiveness
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