Researchers: Dena Gromet, Howard Kunreuther, and Richard Larrick Reducing energy consumption has many benefits, ranging from economic and social advantages to environmental welfare. But despite the benefits that energy reduction provides, the adoption of energy efficient technology has been slow, and there are a number of reasons why this might be the case, including temporal… read more

On July 17, CRED postdoctoral researcher Adrian Camilleri will speak at the World Marketing Congress in Melbourne, Australia. Adrian will speak on the panel “The Choice Architecture of Translated Attributes.” For more information about the World Marketing Congress please click here: http://www.2013wmc.org/.

Lecturer, RMIT University adrian.camilleri@rmit.edu.au Personal Homepage Download Curriculum Vitae Dr. Adrian Camilleri received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of New South Wales (Australia) in 2011. The topic of Adrian’s dissertation was the psychological mechanisms underpinning experience-based choice. His research has led to a better understanding of how different ways of learning about one’s… read more

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University bso5@columbia.edu Faculty Webpage Download Curriculum Vitae Ben Orlove, an anthropologist, has conducted field work in the Peruvian Andes since the 1970s and also carried out research in East Africa, the Italian Alps, and Aboriginal Australia. His early work focused on agriculture, fisheries and rangelands. More recently he… read more

December 5-9, 2011 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting San Francisco, California Katherine Thompson, graduate student, and CRED director David Krantz represented CRED at the 2011 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Katherine presented a poster, “Why Don’t People Evacuate When Nature Threatens?” in the session on geophysical hazards and social/ecological vulnerabilities. Her poster summarized… read more