Leif Nelson

• O’Donnell, M., Critcher, C. R., & Nelson, L. D. (in press). Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics. Journal of Consumer Research.
• Simonsohn, U., Simmons, J. P., & Nelson, L. D. (2022). Above averaging in literature reviews. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(10), 551-552.
• Kim, G., Adams, I., Diaw, M., Celly, M., Nelson, L. D., & Jung, M. H. (2022). Prosocial spending encourages happiness: A replication of the only experiment reported in Dunn, Aknin, and Norton (2008). Plos one, 17(9), e0272434.
• O’Donnell, M., … Moore, D. A., & Nelson, L. D. (2021). Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(44), e2103313118.
• Simonsohn, U., Simmons, J. P., & Nelson, L. D. (2020). Specification curve analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(11), 1208-1214.
• Jung, M. H., Moon, A., & Nelson, L. D. (2020). Overestimating the valuations and preferences of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(6), 1193.
• Moon, A & Nelson, L. D. (2020). The uncertain value of uncertainty: When consumers are unwilling to pay for what they like, Management Science.
  • * The lead author was runner-up for the Hillel Einhorn award from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making
• Vosgerau, J., Simonsohn, U., Nelson, L. D., & Simmons, J. P. (2019). 99% impossible: A valid, or falsifiable, internal meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(9), 1628.
• Simonsohn, U., Nelson, L. D., & Simmons, J. P. (2019). P-curve won’t do your laundry, but it will distinguish replicable from non-replicable findings in observational research: Comment on Bruns & Ioannidis (2016). PLoS one, 14(3), e0213454.
• Minah H. Jung, Chengyao Sun, and Leif D. Nelson. People Can Recognize, Learn, and Apply Defaults in Social Influence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  2018
• Leif D Nelson, Joseph Simmons, Uri Simonsohn. Psychology’s Renaissance. Annual Review of Psychology.
  2018
• Hannah Perfecto, Leif D Nelson, Don A Moore. The Category Size Bias: A Mere Misunderstanding. Judgment & Decision Making.
  2018
• O’Donnell, M., Nelson, L. D., Ackermann, E., Aczel, B., Akhtar, A., Aldrovandi, S., … & Balatekin, N. Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998). Perspectives on Psychological Science.
  2018
• Hannah Perfecto, Jeff Galak, Joseph P Simmons, Leif D Nelson. Rejecting a Bad Option Feels Like Choosing a Good One. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
  2017

At Haas since 2009

• 2014 – present, Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Marketing, Univeresity of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• 2010 – 2014, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• 2009 – 2010, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
• 2007 – 2009, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, Rady School of Management
• 2003 – 2007, Assistant Professor of Marketing, New York University, Stern School of Business

Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award
2013 – 2014

Garwood Center Grant for Corporate Innovation
2013

Journal of Consumer Research Best Paper Award
2012

Cialdini Award
Best paper with field experimentation in social psychology
2011

MSI Young Scholars
Marketing Science Institute

Scholar at Center for Advanced Study in Behavorial Science
Summer Institute

• How a scientific dispute spiraled into a defamation lawsuit, The New Yorker, 09/12/2024
• She Sued the Sleuths Who Found Fraud in Her Data. A Judge Just Ruled Against Her., Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/10/2024
• The war on error: A new project seeks to root out fraud in academia, Washington Examiner, 04/11/2024
• Can academic fraud be stopped?, Freakonomics, 01/19/2024
• Why is there so much fraud in academia?, Freakonomics, 01/10/2024
• They studied dishonesty. Was their work a lie?, The New Yorker, 10/13/2023
• The Harvard professor and the bloggers, The New York Times, 09/30/2023
• The band of debunkers busting bad scientists, The Wall Street Journal, 09/24/2023
• These b-school professors have raised more than $300K to defend themselves from Francesca Gino’s lawsuit, Poets & Quants, 09/01/2023
• Amid uncertainty about Francesca Gino’s research, the Many Co-Authors project could provide clarity, Behavioral Scientist, 08/30/2023
• ‘Open science’ advocates warn of widespread academic fraud, Financial Times, 08/01/2023
• The rise and fall of a Harvard business school superstar, Poets & Quants, 06/26/2023
• Sportsbooks made a killing on NFL games in November, Poker News Daily, 11/30/2021
• An empirical audit, The Last Word on Nothing, 11/17/2021
• How data detectives spotted fake numbers in a widely cited paper, The Economist, 08/27/2021

• Courses, Marketing Research