Daniel Bartels

Daniel Bartels investigates the mental representations and processes underlying consumer financial decision making, moral psychology, and intertemporal choice. His work has appeared in such publications as Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Consumer Research and has been featured in the New York Times, The Economist, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Time, US News and World Report, Money Magazine, among other outlets. He is Associate Editor at Cognition and on the editorial board of Journal of Consumer Research.

Prior to joining Booth as a faculty member, Bartels taught behavioral economics at Columbia Business School. He also had a previous affiliation with Booth as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Center for Decision Research from 2007-2010.

Bartels earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University and a B.S. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Education

• Ph.D. Northwestern University (2001 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2013)
• Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School Columbia University (2010 — 2013)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Decision Research University of Chicago (2007 — 2010)
• Graduate Student Northwestern University (2001 — 2007)