Eric J. Johnson
Norman Eig Professor of Business
Marketing Division
Director
Center for the Decision Sciences
BA, Rutgers, 1976; MS, Carnegie Mellon, 1978; PhD, 1980
Joined CBS in 1999
Office:
727
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-5068
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-7647
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Eric Johnson is a faculty member at the Columbia Business School at Columbia University where he is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business, and Director of the Center for Decision Sciences. His research examines the interface between Behavioral Decision Research, Economics and the decisions made by consumers, managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing. Among other topics, Johnson has explored how the way options are presented to decision-makers affect their choices in areas such as organ donation, the choice of environmentally friendly products, and investments. Prof. Johnson’s research and comments have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Money, Discover, Business Week and The Financial Times, and on The CBS Evening News and National Public Radio. His research has been published in the Science, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Nature Neuroscience, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and many other consumer, economic, marketing and psychology journals. He has co-authored two books: Decision Research: A Field Guide, published by Sage Publications and The Adaptive Decision-Maker published by Cambridge University Press, and is currently working on a book on choice architecture. After graduation from Rutgers University, he received his M.S. and PhD. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University, and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Stanford.
He previously has taught at Carnegie Mellon, was a visiting professor at the Sloan School at MIT, was the inaugural holder of the David W. Hauck Chair in Marketing, and a Professor of Operations and Information Management and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. The National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, The Alfred P. Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations, and the Office of Naval Research have supported his research. He was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology, and named a Fellow by the Association for Consumer Research, was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, and is a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute Fellow and the Association for Psychological Science. According to the Institute for Scientific Information, he is one of the most highly cited scholars in Business and Economics. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and is a member of several editorial boards as well as the Senior Editor for Decision Sciences at Behavioral Science and Policy and an Editor at Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience.
Memberships & Affiliations
Named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
Dean's Award for Innovation in the Classroom with Steven Zeldes for Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance, 2013
Teaching
Spring 2022
The Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance
(MBA)
Behavioral Economics & Decision Making
(EMBA)
(PhD) Consumer Behavior II
(PHD)
Spring 2021
The Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance
(MBA)
Spring 2020
The Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance
(MBA)
(PhD) Consumer Behavior II
(PHD)
Fall 2020
Behavioral Economics & Decision Making
(EMBA)
Behavioral Economics & Decision Making
(MBA)
Spring 2019
The Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance
(MBA)
Spring 2018
The Psychology and Economics of Consumer Finance
(MBA)
Becoming Better Choice Architects
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Becoming Better Choice Architects
(MBA)
Behavioral Economics & Decision Making
(EMBA)
Columbia Caseworks cases
CommonBond and Student Loan Refinancing
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Eric J. Johnson, Stephen P. Zeldes
Keep the Change: Bank of America’s Savings Program
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Eric J. Johnson, Stephen P. Zeldes
Betterment
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Eric J. Johnson, Stephen P. Zeldes
Selling CFLs at Wal-Mart
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Eric J. Johnson, Daniel Bartels
The 2-28 Mortgage: When Business and Psychology Intersect in a New Consumer Product
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Eric J. Johnson, Chris Mayer
In The Media
Making Choices Is Complicated. Here’s What to Know to Make More Informed Decisions
Conversations: Eric J. Johnson, "The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters"
Among Social Scientists, a Vigorous Debate over Loss Aversion
Apple Bets on Users Opting in to Be Tracked, Rather Than Opting Out
What Happens When You’re Vaccinated and Your Partner Isn’t?
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
Named a Fellow by the Association for Consumer Research, 2012
Awarded from the Society for Consumer Psychology, 2011
Honorary Doctorate in Economics awarded from the University of St. Gallen, 2009.
Awarded Columbia AMA Award for Class Most Useful After Graduation, 2007
Awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Named an Institute Fellow of TIAA-CREF