Professor | Joe Shoong Chair in Business | Director, Berkeley Haas Behavioral Lab | Co-Director, Social and Moral Judgment (SOMO) Lab
Marketing
Identifying and explaining skills and shortcomings in people's social, economic, moral, and political judgments
About
Clayton Critcher is a professor of marketing, cognitive science, and psychology at Berkeley Haas. A social psychologist, Critcher researches how people come to understand themselves and other people and to make judgments and decisions in economic, morally relevant, and social situations.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Self and Social Judgment
- Moral Psychology
- Consumer Behavior
- Judgment and Decision Making
See exhaustive list of papers and publications here.
At Haas since 2010
- 2022 – present: Joe Shoong Professor of Business
- 2022 – present: Chair, Haas Marketing Group
- 2020 – present: Joe Shoong Chair of Business
- 2020 – present: Director, Haas Behavioral Lab
- 2020 – 2022, PhD Field Advisor, Marketing
- 2017 – present, Institute for Personality and Social Research
- 2016 – present, Associate Professor of Marketing, Haas School of Business
- 2013 – present, Department of Psychology (affiliate)
- 2011 – present, Cognitive Science Faculty
- 2010 – 2016, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Haas School of Business
- Psychological Science: Associate Editor
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Associate Editor
- Self & Identity : Editorial Board
- Association for Psychological Science
- Association for Consumer Research
- Society for Consumer Psychology
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Best Paper Award, European Social Cognition Network
2022
Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2021
Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty
Fellow
Sage Young Scholar Award
2015
Hellman Fellow
Fellowship
Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award
2014
Science: Editors’ Choice
Award
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Fellowship
Yale University Angier Prize
Award
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Fellow
“The Spreading of Perceived Exclusion”
National Science Foundation Grant
Social Psychology
- Psychologists reveal what everyone gets wrong about first impressions, Inverse, 10/07/2020
- Why Do Politicians Need to Say ‘I Approve This Message’ in Their Ads?, Mental Floss, 09/16/2020
- Recalling Memories From A Distance Changes How Your Brain Works And Helps You Excel In Your Career, Forbes, 09/04/2020
- California requires masks, but not everyone wears one. Here’s how to fix that, San Francisco Chronicle, 07/27/2020
- Why We Should Stop Worrying About What Others Think of Us, Knowledge@Wharton, 03/31/2020
- Political campaign ads may have ironic side effects, American Marketing Association podcast, 11/05/2018
- ‘I Approve This Message’ Has an Unwelcome Subtext, Pacific Standard Magazine, 03/02/2018
- That “I Approve” Tagline on Political Ads May Have Precisely the Opposite Effect of What Congress Intended, Mother Jones, 02/16/2018
- Frisbees, Hula Hoops and Hacky Sacks. Southern California’s Wham-O looks to reinvent its toys for the digital age, Los Angeles Times, 08/09/2017
- How to Tell If Someone Will Succeed, Time Magazine, 10/27/2016
- Marketing, MBA 206 (Core)