Shane Frederick

Shane Frederick is a Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management. His research focuses on preference elicitation, framing effects, intertemporal choice, and decision-making under uncertainty. Before joining Yale SOM, he was associate professor of management science at Sloan School of Management at MIT. Prior to MIT, he was a research associate and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University. Frederick holds a PhD in decision sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, an MA in resource management from Simon Fraser University, and a BS in zoology from the University of Wisconsin.

Shane Frederick is a Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management, specializing in Decision Theory. His research explores cognitive biases, heuristics, and temporal discounting in decision-making processes. Key areas include intuitive judgment, attribute substitution, and the psychology of intertemporal discounting. Frederick's work examines how expectations, consumption, and framing influence preferences and choices. He investigates phenomena such as opportunity cost neglect, anchoring, and hedonic adaptation. His research also addresses the valuation of future lives and the impact of environmental change on decision-making. Through empirical studies and theoretical models, Frederick contributes to understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying human judgment and choice.