Eugene M. Caruso

About

Eugene M. Caruso is a professor in UCLA Anderson’s Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making areas, and serves as Faculty Co-Director of the Inclusive Ethics Initiative. His interest in the psychology of judgment and decision making developed during his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, where he studied with Eldar Shafir and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Caruso began his career in customer research at the Boston-based marketing firm Digitas, analyzing consumer decision-making habits. Seeking greater control over research questions, he returned to academia and earned a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University, studying with Max Bazerman, Nick Epley, and Dan Gilbert. His dissertation focused on differences in how people perceive past versus future events, with implications for moral and ethical decision making. Caruso's research explores how individuals interpret and respond to information, often examining why people with access to the same data arrive at different conclusions. He emphasizes the importance of managers testing their intuitions and understanding the conditions under which certain strategies are effective. Prior to UCLA Anderson, he was an associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the Behavioral Science program. His work has significantly contributed to understanding social judgment, resource allocation, fairness, and moral decision making, and he regularly incorporates his research…

Research topics

• Econometrics
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Developmental psychology
• Data science
• Geography
• Statistics
• Archaeology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2023 · 67 citations

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• Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 54 citations

  This initiative examined systematically the extent to which a large set of archival research findings generalizes across contexts. We repeated the key analyses for 29 original strategic management effects in the same context (direct reproduction) as well as in 52 novel time periods and geographies; 45% of the reproductions returned results matching the original reports together with 55% of tests in different spans of years and 40% of tests in novel geographies. Some original findings were associ…

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• The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting

  Psychological Science · 2019-11-01 · 32 citations

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  We compared the extent to which people discounted positive and negative events in the future and in the past. We found that the tendency to discount gains more than losses (i.e., the sign effect) emerged more strongly for future than for past outcomes. We present evidence from six studies (total N = 1,077) that the effect of tense on discounting is tied to differences in the contemplation emotion of these events, which we assessed by measuring participants’ emotions while they either anticipated…

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• Physicians prescribe fewer analgesics during night shifts than day shifts

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022-06-27 · 23 citations

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  Adequate pain management is one of the biggest challenges of the modern healthcare system. Physician perception of patient subjective pain, which is crucial to pain management, is susceptible to a host of potential biases. Here we explore the timing of physicians’ work as a previously unrecognized source of systematic bias in pain management. We hypothesized that during night shifts, sleep deprivation, fatigue, and stress would reduce physicians’ empathy for others’ pain, leading to underprescri…

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• Time Points: A Gestural Study of the Development of Space–Time Mappings

  Cognitive Science · 2019-12-01 · 14 citations

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  Human languages typically employ a variety of spatial metaphors for time (e.g., "I'm looking forward to the weekend"). The metaphorical grounding of time in space is also evident in gesture. The gestures that are performed when talking about time bolster the view that people sometimes think about regions of time as if they were locations in space. However, almost nothing is known about the development of metaphorical gestures for time, despite keen interest in the origins of space-time metaphors…

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Frequent coauthors

• Nicholas Epley

  University of Chicago

  22 shared

• Leaf Van Boven

  University of Colorado Boulder

  14 shared

• Max H. Bazerman

  12 shared

• Alex Shaw

  University of Chicago

  11 shared

• Shoham Choshen‐Hillel

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  10 shared

• Zachary C. Burns

  University of San Francisco

  10 shared

• Daniel M. Bartels

  University of Chicago

  7 shared

• Agnieszka Jaroslawska

  6 shared

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