Daniel Bartels

About

Daniel M. Bartels is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in judgment and decision making, consumer behavior, moral psychology, and concepts and categories. His research focuses on understanding how individuals make decisions, how they perceive themselves and others, and how these perceptions influence their behavior.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Economics
• Psychology
• Mathematics
• Data science
• Cognitive psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Statistics
• Political Science

Selected publications

• Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results.

  Psychological Bulletin · 2020 · 180 citations

  To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition. Participants from 2 separate large samples (total N > 15,000) were then randomly assigned to complete 1 version of each study. Effect sizes varied dramatically across different sets of materials designed to test the same…

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• Consumers Object to Algorithms Making Morally Relevant Tradeoffs Because of Algorithms’ Consequentialist Decision Strategies

  Journal of Consumer Psychology · 2021 · 91 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Why do consumers embrace some algorithms and find others objectionable? The moral relevance of the domain in which an algorithm operates plays a role. The authors find that consumers believe that algorithms are more likely to use maximization (i.e., attempting to maximize some measured outcome) as a decision‐making strategy than human decision makers (Study 1). Consumers find this consequentialist decision strategy to be objectionable in morally relevant tradeoffs and disapprove of algorithms ma…

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• The More You Ask, the Less You Get: When Additional Questions Hurt External Validity

  Journal of Marketing Research · 2021 · 28 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Researchers and practitioners in marketing, economics, and public policy often use preference elicitation tasks to forecast real-world behaviors. These tasks typically ask a series of similarly structured questions. The authors posit that every time a respondent answers an additional elicitation question, two things happen: (1) they provide information about some parameter(s) of interest, such as their time preference or the partworth for a product attribute, and (2) the respondent increasingly…

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• A Primer for Evaluating Large Language Models in Social-Science Research

  Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science · 2025-04-01 · 20 citations

  articleOpen access

  Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable conversational and reasoning abilities and exceptional flexibility across a wide range of tasks. Subsequently, LLMs are being increasingly used in scientific research to analyze data, generate synthetic data, or even write scientific articles. This trend necessitates that authors follow best practices for conducting and reporting LLM research and that journal reviewers can evaluate the quality of works that use LLMs. We provide autho…

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• A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2025-05-19 · 10 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Eric J. Johnson

  Columbia University

  40 shared

• Ye Li

  40 shared

• Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  38 shared

• Olivier Toubia

  Columbia University

  37 shared

• Daniel Wall

  California University of Pennsylvania

  37 shared

• Oleg Urminsky

  University of Chicago

  29 shared

• Nicholas Reinholtz

  University of Colorado Boulder

  13 shared

• Justin F. Landy

  Nova Southeastern University

  11 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology

  Northwestern University

  2007

• M.S., Cognitive Psychology

  Northwestern University

  2002

• B.S., Psychology

  University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

  2001

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