Craig Fox

Craig Fox, PhD is Harold Williams Professor of Management, and also Professor of Psychology and Medicine at UCLA. He is chair and co-founder of the Behavioral Decision Making Area at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Dr. Fox’s award-winning research investigates behavior under risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity, using a combination of methods that include surveys, laboratory and field experiments, analysis of archival data, and brain imaging. He also applies insights from behavioral economics and social psychology to improve health and financial decisions. This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation, among others. His scientific manuscripts have been published in leading journals of psychology, economics, management, neuroscience, medicine, law, and general science. He has also contributed popular treatments of his work to such outlets as the New York Times and Harvard Business Review.

Professor Fox has taught courses at the MBA, Executive, and Ph.D. levels on decision making, strategy, negotiation, leadership, and dynamic management. He has been at UCLA since 2003, following six years at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he was named the 2001 “Outstanding Faculty Member”. Fox has also taught courses at Stanford, Northwestern, and Columbia Universities as well as Koç University (Istanbul) and the Australian Graduate School of Management (Sydney). He has been a visiting scholar at NYU, Columbia University, The Hebrew University, and the University of Mannheim.

Dr. Fox is founding co-editor of the journal Behavioral Science & Policy and co-President of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association. He is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society.

Fox earned his B.A. in Psychology and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was mentored by Daniel Kahneman, and he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Stanford University, where he was mentored by Amos Tversky.

### Education

• Ph.D., M.A. Psychology, 1990–94 Stanford University
  
• B.A. Economics and Psychology, 1989, University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
  

Publications

• Tannenbaum, D., Fox, C.R., & Ülkümen, G. (in press). Judgment extremity and accuracy under epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty. Management Science, forthcoming.
• Ülkümen, G., Fox, C.R., & Malle, B.F. (in press). On the dual nature of uncertainty: Cues from natural language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, forthcoming.
• Fox, C., Erner, C., & Walters, D. (2016). Decision under risk: From the field to the lab and back. In G. Keren & G. Wu (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making,Blackwell.
• Meeker, D., Linder, J.A., Fox, C.R., Friedberg, M.W., Persell, S.D., Goldstein, N.J., Knight, T.K., Hay, J.W. & Doctor, J.N. (2016). Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing among primary care practices:A randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 315, 562-570.
• Fox, C.R. & Sitkin, S. (2015). Bridging the divide between behavioral science and policy. Behavioral Science & Policy, 1, 1-12.
• Tannenbaum, D., Doctor, J.N., Persell, S.D., Friedberg, M.W., Meeker, D., Friesema, B.A., Goldstein, N.J., Linder, J.A. & Fox, C.R. (2015). Nudging physician decisions by partitioning the order set: Results of a vignette-based study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30, 298-304.
• Linder, J.A., Doctor, J.N., Friedberg, M.W., Reyes, N.H., Birks, C., Meeker, D. & Fox, C.R. (2014). Time of day and the decision to prescribe antibiotics. JAMA Internal Medicine.
• Fox, C., Erner, C., & Walters, D. (forthcoming). Decision under risk: From the field to the lab and back. In G. Keren & G. Wu (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making,Blackwell.
• Meeker, D., et al. (2014) Nudging guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern Med.
• De Palma, A., et al. (2014). Beware of black swans and do not ignore white ones? [Under publication review].
• Fox, C.R., & Poldrack, R.A. (2014). Prospect theory and the brain. In P. Glimcher & E. Fehr (Eds.), Handbook of neuroeconomics (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Elsevier.
• Barkley-Levenson, E., & Fox, C. R. (2013). The surprising relationship between indecisiveness and impulsivity. Working paper.
• Fernbach, P.,M., Rogers, T., Fox, C.R., & Sloman, S.A. (2013). Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding. Psychological Science, 24, 939-946.