Jonathan Baron
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
jonathanbaron7@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-1001-9947
Office: C7 Solomon
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News

The 5th edition of Thinking and deciding is now available. Chinese translation in progress. (Course syllabus and lecture notes.)

Some papers of possible current interest

Research

I think that deficient thinking is a major determinants of what is wrong in the world, especially when judgments and decisions are made by governments and the citizens who support them. Of particular interest are effects of the absence of actively open-minded thinking and effects of deontological (moral) rules that depart from utilitarianism as a standard.

In addition to studying these types of thinking empirically, I try to analyze the relevant standards from a more philosophical perspective. In the empirical realm, I am also interested in methodology and data analysis.


Experiments, data, unpublished papers, and slides of talks are all licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. This means that you can do what you want with them, but you must acknowledge the source.

Teaching and research supervision

Graduate and undergraduate research supervision

I cannot support or sponsor visiting scholars.

I am no longer teaching classes, but here are some old ones:
Seminar in moral judgment, law, and public policy (spring 2013)
Seminar in behavioral law and economics (spring 2011)
Judgments and decisions (graduate, half of fall term 2012)
Judgments and decisions (undergraduate, fall 2010)

Books

Some drafts and talks

Articles made public only on the Web:

Articles published or in press