Institute for the Study of Decision Making

ISDM is the global leading institution for human behavior, decision-making & neuroeconomics research What are the roots of human behavior?

How do we make decisions, and what forces shape those decisions? How can we apply what we learn about human health and behavior to inform and improve public policy to make it more effective? The Institute for the Study of Decision Making (ISDM) was formed to bring together different scientific disciplines—including neuroscience, economics, psychology, and urban informatics—to tackle the next gener

ation of human behavior research challenges and translate that research into improved public policy. ISDM breaks down the barriers between these and other disciplines and integrates the insights from these seemingly disparate fields into the study of neuroeconomics: understanding how people make decisions. Combined with our partner institutions within NYU, ISDM is the premiere global research institution for neuroeconomics and human behavior. Decades ago, scholars of human decision-making with a bent toward policy were economists. Trained in econometrics, those social scientists used sophisticated mathematical tools to connect macro-scale measures of our societies to the social policies meant to improve our welfare. In the late 1970s and early 1980s a group of pioneering psychologists, led by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, began to develop a richer academic notion of decision-making that reached down from economics to psychology for novel insights. Thirty years later, those insights, which began the “behavioral revolution,” have become fundamental drivers in the world of policy. Fifteen years ago, a group of cognitive neuroscientists began to push down even further, exploring how the structural features of our nervous systems condition our behaviors and our choices. Today, the policy implications of those “neuroeconomic” insights are beginning to be explored as well. From each of those revolutions what emerged was both a more consilient view of human behavior and an aspiration to policy – an effort to shape our societies by using all that we know about how humans make decisions. ISDM takes that trend a step further by embracing a new and radically different opportunity. This opportunity allows researchers to reach upwards directly to the policy level, while at the same time testing what has been learned about the human decision-maker in an unprecedented way.

Shanghai Neuroeconomics Collective Summer School

08/01/2017

Now it's a wrap! Over the past couple of weeks, ISDM teamed up with NYU Shanghai and the East China Normal University, and brought together the world's leading scholars and Ph.D. students in neuroeconomics for the annual Shanghai Neuroeconomics Summer School.

We are grateful for our engaged students and enthusiastic lecturers for making this year's session a great success!

Special thanks to our sponsor: Society for Neuroeconomics.

The HUMAN Project @ World Science Festival 2017 — The HUMAN Project

05/17/2017

Our flagship research - The HUMAN Project - will exhibit a booth at the World Science Festival’s Ultimate Science Sunday Fair on June, 4 from 10-6pm in NYU’s Kimmel Center. Come play fun games, and learn all of the different factors that have an impact on memory and why it is important to study people for long periods of time!

The HUMAN Project @ World Science Festival 2017 — The HUMAN Project On Sunday, June 4, 2017, The HUMAN Project team will exhibit a booth at the World Science Festival’s Ultimate Science Sunday Fair from 10-6pm in NYU’s Kimmel Center. The World Science Festival is an annual production from the World Science Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in New Y...

05/17/2017

Congratulations to the NYU Class of 2017!

It’s officially grad season! Congratulations to the Class of 2017! We’re gleaming in violet and white in celebration of New York University’s 185th Commencement.

Justice in Big Data Biology and Healthcare Analytics — ISDM

05/04/2017

Join us this afternoon for a special lecture event at NYU Langone with Prof. Pilar Ossorio (UWisc), about the ethical issues surrounding big human data research. This is the last, and arguably one of the most exciting events before the summer break, so don't miss it!

Justice in Big Data Biology and Healthcare Analytics — ISDM Big biomedical research analyzes high throughput molecular data from thousands or tens of thousands of people, in conjunction with information obtained from electronic health records, geo-tracking, exposure databases, environmental monitoring devices, activity tracking, etc. The goal of such resear...

04/20/2017

There are two tenure-track faculty positions open at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute's Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors (CTRHB). Please apply if you are interested.

Assistant Professor Faculty Positions in the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute’s Center for Transformative Research on Health Behaviors (CTRHB) Virginia Tech invites applications for 2 tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of assistant professor. These positions are part of a cluster hire that will have ac...

04/04/2017

In the era of "big data", interdisciplinary research with a hard emphasis on translational outcomes is becoming the norm in all large-scale scientific endeavors. This paradigm shift brings the need for graduate training to move from focusing on individual achievement within a single scientific domain, to adopting interdisciplinary data-oriented approaches.

The HUMAN Project is an example of ISDM's many endeavors to embrace this research mindset and explore the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of neuroscience, economics, psychology, public health, urban informatics, and public policy.

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