Gaël Mens

Gaël Le Mens is Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Affiliated Professor of the BSE. Professor Le Mens's research focuses on how the social environment and learning processes affect inference, judgment and valuation. His current theoretical focus is on developing models of the influence of categories on inference and valuation, and models of the dynamics of collective valuation (such as online review scores). Professor Le Mens tests the predictions of his models using a variety of methods, such as the analysis of large datasets of online reviews, and a combination of online and laboratory experiments.

His research has been published in top scientific journals such as Psychological Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA (PNAS), Psychological Science, Cognition, Organization Science, Management Science and Administrative Science Quarterly. He has taught graduate courses at INSEAD and London Business School.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

• 2017: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant: "The Implications of Selective Information Sampling for Individual and Collective Judgments"
• 2014: BSE Seed Grant, "Information Sampling in Coordination Games: An Experimental Investigation"

Working Papers

• Nikolas Schöll, Aina Gallego and Gaël Le Mens
  Politician-Citizen Interactions and Dynamic Representation: Evidence from Twitter BSE Working Paper: 1238 | February 2021

Publications

• Gaël Le Mens and Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol.29, No 1, 183-205, February 2020
  Revisiting the Competency Trap

• Gaël Le Mens, , and Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol.11, No 2, 358-373, April 2019
  Information Sampling, Judgment, and the Environment: Application to the Effect of Popularity on Evaluations

• Gaël Le Mens and Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, No 1, 1-16, December 2018
  Feature inference with uncertain categorization: Re-assessing Anderson’s rational model