David J. Hardisty: Biography

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Dave Hardisty is Associate Professor of Marketing & Behavioural Science at UBC Sauder School of Business. Dave studies consumer behaviour change, especially in the domains of sustainability and financial decision making. Dave co-founded the Decision Insights for Business and Society (DIBS) group, and the Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions (IBioS) research cluster. Dave was born in 1980 and grew up in Mercer Island, WA. He attended Stanford University and worked as a research assistant in Ian Gotlib's lab, studying information processing approaches to depression and anxiety disorders. In 2003, Dave graduated from Stanford and moved to Osaka, Japan where he worked as an English teacher for ECC. September 2004, Dave moved to Paris, France, where he worked as a freelance web developer. Fall 2005 he was accepted to the masters program in social psychology at Paris 5 Descartes to work with Bo Sanitioso, working on group decision making and group polarization. August 2006, Dave moved to NY, where he studied decision making, with Elke Weber, Eric Johnson, & Dave Krantz at Columbia University. In summer 2011 Dave married Kirstin Appelt and moved to California, where he completed a post-doc at the Stanford GSB. July 2013, Dave moved to Vancouver BC and joined Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, where he's researching consumer behaviour and sustainability. In 2018, Dave co-founded the center for Decision Insights for Business and Society (DIBS) with Kirstin Appelt, Dale Griffin, Kate White, and Jiaying Zhao In his free time, Dave enjoys hiking, brewing beer, watching soccer, and writing bios about himself in the 3rd person. For vacations, he enjoys visiting his sister's ranch for horseback riding and sleigh rides.
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