Yates Lectures: George Loewenstein: This is Your Brain on Emotion

This Yates lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

As the Murphy Institute's seventeenth Yates lecturer, George Loewenstein presented "This is Your Brain on Emotion: Implications of an Evolutionary Account of Affect." The Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture, endowed in 1996 by Murphy Institute alumna Rebecca Yates('89) Velander in memory of her mother, is the Murphy Institute's major public academic event. Designed to promote university-wide discussion of issues of current concern, the annual Yates Lecture brings leading thinkers and public figures to the Tulane campus.

George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a founder of the fields of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, and one of the leading thinkers examining the relationship between economics and psychology. The author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, he has written or edited six books on topics ranging from inter-temporal choice to behavioral economics to emotions. His most recent book is Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Professor Loewenstein received his PhD from Yale University in 1985 and has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.