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Barbara Mellers

Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business Administration
Marketing and OBIR Groups
1-510-642-3811
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m. and by appointment (F693)
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

1974 B.A. Psychology, University of California at Berkeley
1978 M.A. Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
1981 Ph.D. Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Positions Held
At Haas since 2001
2005 - Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
2004 - Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business Administration
2001 - Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1995 - 2001 Professor, Ohio State University
1981 - 1995 Assistant to Full Professor, UC Berkeley

External Service and Assignments

Editorial Board: Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Psychological Review, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, California Management Review.
Member: National Research Council on Impacts of Pathological Gambling; NSF Review Panel for Measurement, Methodology, and Statistics, CSR Evaluation Advisory Committee for NIH.

Current Research and Interests

Psychological models of decision making: What are the underlying processes that capture actual decision making?
Effects of emotions on judgment and choice: How and when do emotions play a key role in decision making?
Perceptions of fairness: What governs perceptions of fairness in groups and markets?

Selected Papers and Publications

Mellers, B.A. & Locke, C. (2006). What can we learn from our mistakes? In R. Miles and P. Von Winterfeldt (Eds.) Advances in Decision Analysis, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Haselhuhn, M. & Mellers, B.A. (2005). Emotions and cooperation in economic games. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 24-33.
Mellers, B.A.(2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910-924.
Mellers, B. A., Schwartz, A., & Ritov, I. (1999). Emotion-based choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 1-14.
Mellers, B.A., Schwartz, A., & Cooke, A. (1998). Judgment and decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 49,447-77.
Mellers, B.A. & Baron, J. (Eds.) (1993). Psychological perspectives on justice: Theory and applications. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Teaching

MBA 252
EWMBA 252, Negotiations

Honors and Awards

EAP Faculty Exchange Fellow, University of Trento, 2007
Russell Sage Fellow, 2005-2006
Numerous NSF Grants
Club 6 Haas Teaching Recognition
Presidential Young Investigator, NSF, 1985-1999
President, Judgment and Decision Making Society, 1996
Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 1984
NIMH Measurement Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1977-1980
University Fellow, University of Illinois, 1978

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