Shai Davidai
Assistant Professor of Management at Columbia Business School
Biography
Columbia Business School
Shai Davidai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His research examines people’s everyday judgments of themselves, other people, and society as a whole. He studies the psychological forces that shape, distort, and bias people’s perceptions of the world and their influence on people’s judgments, preferences, and choices. His topics of expertise include the psychology of judgment and decision making, economic inequality and social mobility, social comparisons, and zero-sum thinking.
His work has been published in top-tier journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Shai received his PhD from Cornell University in 2015. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, Shai spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research
Research
Journal articles
The Politics of Zero-Sum Thinking: The Relationship Between Political Ideology and the Belief That Life Is a Zero-Sum Game In Science Advances (2019)
Coauthor(s): Shai Davidai, M. OngisThe Second Pugilist's Plight: Why People Believe They Are above Average, but Are Not Especially Happy about It In Journal for Experimental Psychology: General (2019)
Coauthor(s): Shai Davidai, Sebastian DeriWhy Do Americans Believe in Economic Mobility? Economic Inequality, External Attributions of Wealth and Poverty, and the Belief in Economic Mobility In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2018)
Coauthor(s): Shai DavidaiAre "Nudges" Getting a Fair Shot? Joint Versus Separate Evaluation In Behavioural Public Policy (2018)
Coauthor(s): Shai Davidai, E. ShafirHow Should We Think About Americans' Perceptions of Socioeconomic Mobility In Judgment and Decision Making (2018)
Coauthor(s): Shai Davidai, T. Gilovich
Chapters
- Economic Inequality and Social Progress In International Panel on Social Progress: Rethinking Society for the 21st Century (2018)
Coauthor(s): Shai Davidai, Stephan Klasen, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Rebeca Grynspan, Luis Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig
Awards And Honors
2017 Faculty Research Fund, The New School
$55002017 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Small Grant Research Award
$15002016 Spring School of Behavioral Economics, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, Award
2016 Sage Graduate Research Fellowship, Cornell University
$22,0002016 Judgment and Decision Making Preconference Student Award
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