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West Coast Neuroeconomics Mini-Symposium

May 9th - 10th, 2025

Welcome to the West Coast Neuroeconomics Meeting at the Rady School of Management! We invite you to join us for a day of talks from the following exceptional scholars in this interdisciplinary field.

Uma Karmarkar

Host: Uma Karmarkar

Associate Professor of Marketing, Rady School of Management and School for Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego; President, Society for Neuroeconomics.

Located at the Rady School of Management, room MPR2

Schedule of Events

Friday, May 9th

8:00am Breakfast
8:45am Opening remarks
9:00am Hongbo Yu: Social Trait Perception from Faces: Neural basis and real-world implication
9:30am Shabnam Hakimi: Abstract semantic prompts shape sequential decision making in design
10:00am Ian Krajbich: Dynamics of Open-Ended Decisions
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am Amitai Shenhav: Breaking the tug-of-war: What neuroeconomics can gain by moving past competition-only models
11:30am Kirby Nielsen: Procedural Decision-Making In the Face of Complexity
12:00pm Jaime Castrellon: Neural mechanisms of bias and evidence evaluation in juror decision making
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Shannon Burns: Synchrony and beyond: Quantifying the dynamics of interdependent minds
2:00pm Chris Oveis: Emotion Regulation facilitates and prevents emotional contagion
2:30pm - 5:00pm Workshop (for invited attendees)

Saturday, May 10th

  • Workshop for Invited Attendees and Closing Remarks at the Rady Sky Pavillion

Speakers

  • Shannon Burns

    Shannon Burns

    Assistant Professor of Psychological Science and Neuroscience, Pomona College

  • Jaime Castrellon

    Jaime Castrellon

    Assistant Professor of Psychology, UCLA

  • Shabnam Hakimi

    Shabnam Hakimi

    Senior Research Scientist. Human-Centered AI division, Toyota Research Institute

  • Ian Krajbich

    Ian Krajbich

    Associate Professor of Psychology, UCLA

  • Kirby Nielsen

    Kirby Nielsen

    Professor of Economics and William H. Hurt Scholar, Caltech

  • Christopher Oveis

    Christopher Oveis

    Associate Professor of Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego

  • Amitai Shenhav

    Amitai Shenhav

    Associate Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley

  • Hongbo Yu

    Hongbo Yu

    Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, UC Santa Barbara

Invited attendees and workshop participants include:

Ming Hsu, William Halford Professor, Haas School of Business and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Uma Karmarkar, Associate Professor of Marketing, Rady School of Management and School for Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

John Clithero, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon

Carolyn Parkinson, Bernice Wenzel and Wendell Jeffrey Term Endowed Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, Associate Professor of Psychology, UCLA

Ian Ballard, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Riverside

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We look forward to seeing you there!

Directions to the Rady School of Management

  • From Interstate 5 exit on Genesee Avenue heading west.
  • Proceed to the third light at the top of the hill.
  • Turn left onto North Torrey Pines Road.
  • Turn left onto North Point Drive.
  • Turn right onto Scholars Drive North and continue until you see Otterson Hall on the left.

Parking

Parking is available on campus in several locations.
The closest parking to the Rady School is located in the Pangea Parking Structure: