Richard Larrick

Richard Larrick is the Hanes Corporation Foundation Professor of Business Administration and a Professor of Management and Organizations at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. His research areas include judgment and decision making, social psychology, and organizational behavior, with current topics such as wisdom of crowds, environmental decisions, blinding decisions, and debiasing methods. Larrick is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and served as president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making in 2017. He received his Ph. D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1991 and his B.A. in psychology and economics from the College of William and Mary.

Richard Larrick is a scholar at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, specializing in Judgment and Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, and Social Psychology. His research explores how individuals make decisions, the role of intuition in judgment, and the impact of social and organizational factors on behavior. Larrick's work includes studies on debiasing, the influence of political ideology on energy choices, and the psychological mechanisms behind social comparison and overconfidence. He also investigates how power dynamics affect decision-making and team performance. His publications highlight the importance of cost-benefit reasoning, the wisdom of crowds, and the role of self-protection in decision theories.