Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy

Books on behavioral science by Danny Kahneman and Eldar Shafir

Established with an anonymous gift in 2015, the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, housed in the Woodrow Wilson School, honors the legacy of Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman and leverages the combined strengths of the Princeton University faculty across a range of disciplines.  The Center is the intellectual hub that supports and organizes new research projects, plans lecture series and conferences, disseminates research results, and connects Princeton researchers and students with policy makers and scholars from other institutions.

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Upcoming Events

Shahzeen Attari, University of Indiana

Shahzeen Attari, University of Indiana
Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 12:15 pm

Shahzeen Attari, Associate Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, focuses on people's judgments and decisions about resource use and how to motivate action on climate...

Location: 300 Wallace Hall
Audience: Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Shahzeen Attari
University of Indiana, Bloomington

Alternatives to engagement: tech governance and optimizing for societal benefit—Nathaniel Lubin

Alternatives to engagement: tech governance and optimizing for societal benefit—Nathaniel Lubin
Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 4:30 pm
Nate Lubin, former Director of Digital Strategy at the Obama White House, will explore how new methods developed for advocacy messaging might be deployed online to raise the subjective happiness of users or ensure the transfer of knowledge.
Audience: Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Nathaniel Lubin
Founder, Lubin Strategies
Alternatives to engagement: tech governance and optimizing for societal benefit

Optical illusions and life-threatening traffic crashes—Don Redelmeier, M.D.

Optical illusions and life-threatening traffic crashes—Don Redelmeier, M.D.
Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 4:30 pm
Don Redelmeier, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an expert in medical decision science, will review the general background on driving risks and offer a new study of life-threatening traffic crashes.
Audience: Open to the Public
Speaker(s):
Don Redelmeier, Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Optical illusions and life-threatening traffic crashes
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