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Employment History

Associate Professor & SMEV Chair
Conducting research on consumer behavior, sustainability, and decision making. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
 
07/2020-present
Assistant Professor
Conducting research on consumer behavior, sustainability, and decision making. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
 
07/2013-06/2020
Acting Assistant Professor
Conducting research on consumer behavior, judgment and decision making. Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford, CA.
 
09/2011-06/2013
Statistical Consultant
Provided statistical consulting to faculty, graduate students, and others engaged in social science and public policy research. Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University. New York, NY.
 
02/2010-07/2011
Web Developer
Created dynamic, data-driven websites with HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, Pearl, MySQL, and Flash. Self-Employed.
 
07/2004-09/2009
Teacher
Taught English to Japanese Children and Adults. ECC Foreign Language Institute of Japan. Osaka, Japan.
 
07/2003-09/2004

Education

Columbia University, NYPhD
 
Psychology10/2011
Columbia University, NYMPhil
 
Psychology05/2009
Columbia University, NYMA
 
Psychology02/2009
Universite Paris Descartes, FranceResearch Masters
 
Psychology06/2006
Stanford University, CA
- Phi Beta Kappa, Honors, Distinction
BAPsychology04/2003


Peer Reviewed Research Publications

Habib, R., Hardisty, D. J., Kim, B., & White, K. (conditionally accepted). Closing the Gap: How Relative Distance from Funding Goals Can Enhance Charitable Giving. Journal of Marketing Research.

Gill, C. A., Atlas, S. A., Hardisty, D. J., & Scott, S. P. (2022). Consumer matching costs to context: Status quo bias, temporal framing, and household energy decisions. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 21(5), 1018-1027.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cb.2051

Howard, R. C., Hardisty, D. J., Sussman, A., & Lukas, M. F. (2022). Understanding and Neutralizing the Expense Prediction Bias: the Role of Accessibility, Typicality, and Skewness. Journal of Marketing Research, 59(2), 435-452.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222437211068025
[Web Appendix] [data and syntax] (Note: raw data files from Study 1 and Study 5 cannot be publicly shared due to non-disclosure agreements with the companies.)


Habib, R., White, K., Hardisty, D. J., & Zhao, J. (2021). Shifting Consumer Behavior to Address Climate Change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 108-113.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.007

Lochner, M., & Hardisty, D. J. (2021). Awareness of plastic pollution and adoption of green consumer lifestyles among students from high school. Journal of Emerging Investigators, 4, 1-5.

Kas, J., Hardisty, D. J., & Haandgraf, M. (2021). Steady steps versus sudden shifts: Cooperation in (a)symmetric linear and step-level social dilemmas. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 1, 142-164.

Hardisty, D. J., & Weber, E. U. (2020). Impatience and savoring versus dread: Asymmetries in anticipation explain consumer time preferences for positive versus negative events. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(4), 598-613.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1169
[Supplemental Material]


Shechter, S. M., & Hardisty, D. J. (2020). Preferences for rank in competition: Is first-place seeking stronger than last-place aversion? Judgment and Decision Making, 15(2), 246-253.
[Supplemental Material] [Experimental Scripts] [Data]

Molouki, S., Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. M. (2019). The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting. Psychological Science, 30(12), 1674-1695.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797619876982
[Online supplement] [Data]


Allard, T., Hardisty, D. J., & Griffin, D. (2019). When "More" seems like less: Differential Price Framing Increases the Choice Share of Higher-priced Options. Journal of Marketing Research, 56(5), 826-841.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022243719851490

Cornil, Y., Hardisty, D. J., & Bart, Y. (2019). Easy, breezy, risky: Lay investors fail to diversify because correlated assets feel more fluent and less risky. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 153, 103-117.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.06.001
[Web Appendix]


Hardisty, D. J., Beall, A., Lobowski, R., Petsonk, A., & Romero, R. (2019). A carbon price by another name may seem sweeter: Consumers prefer upstream offsets to downstream taxes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 66, 101342.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101342
[Online Supplement] [Data]


White, K., Habib, R., & Hardisty, D. J. (2019). How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable: A Literature Review and Guiding Framework. Journal of Marketing, 83(3), 22-49.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022242919825649
[Web Appendix]

Winner of the AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing and the Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award

Read, D., Olivola, C. Y., & Hardisty, D. J. (2017). The Value of Nothing: Asymmetric Attention to Opportunity Costs Drives Intertemporal Decision Making. Management Science, 63, 4277-4297.
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2547
[Data]


Hardisty, D. J., & Pfeffer, J. (2017). Intertemporal uncertainty avoidance: When the future is uncertain, people prefer the present, and when the present is uncertain, people prefer the future. Management Science, 63, 519-527.
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2349
[Online Appendix A, Online Appendix B] [Data and Syntax]


Wilson, R., Hardisty, D. J., Epanchin-Niell, R., Runge, M., Cottingham, K., Urban, D., Maguire, L., Hastings, A., Mumby, P., & Peters, D. (2015). A typology of timescale mismatches and behavioral interventions to diagnose and solve conservation problems. Conservation Biology, 30, 42-49.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12632

Hardisty, D. J., Thompson, K., Krantz, D. H., & Weber, E. U. (2013). How to measure time preferences: An experimental comparison of three methods. Judgment and Decision Making, 8 (3), 236-249.
http://journal.sjdm.org/12/12209/jdm12209.pdf
[Online Supplementals] [Study 1 data, Study 1 variables, Study 1 R script, Study 2 data, Study 2 variables, Study 2 R script, Study 2 R script with logged indifference points.]


Hardisty, D. J., Appelt, K. C., & Weber, E. U. (2013). Good or bad, we want it now: Fixed-cost present bias for gains and losses explains magnitude asymmetries in intertemporal choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26, 348-361.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1771
[Online supplementals: A, B, C] [Materials and data]


Hardisty, D. J., Orlove, B., Krantz, D. H., Small, A., Milch, K., & Osgood, D. E. (2012). About time: An integrative approach to effective environmental policy. Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, 22, 684-694.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.05.003
[Online supplementals: A, B]

Arora, P., Peterson, N., Krantz, D. H., Hardisty, D. J., & Reddy, K. (2012). To cooperate or not to cooperate: Using new methodologies and frameworks to understand how affiliation influences cooperation in the present and future. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(4), 842-853.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2012.02.006

Appelt, K. C., Hardisty, D. J., & Weber, E. U. (2011). Asymmetric discounting of gains and losses: A Query Theory account. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 43, 107-126.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-011-9125-1

Hardisty, D. J., Johnson, E. J., & Weber, E. U. (2010). A dirty word or a dirty world? Attribute framing, political affiliation, and query theory. Psychological Science, 21(1), 86-92.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797609355572
[Materials, Data and R Code]


Hardisty, D. J. & Weber, E. U. (2009). Discounting future green: Money vs the environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(3), 329-340.
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016433
[Study 1 materials, Study 2 materials, Study 3 materials] [Study 1 data, Study 2 data, Study 3 data]


Hardisty, D. J. & Haaga, D. A. F. (2008). Diffusion of treatment research: Does open access matter? Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(7), 821-839.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20492
[Data and R Code]



Other Publications

Taira, Y., Hardisty, D. J., & Basto da Silva, R. J. B. (2023). Upscaling brand image: UNIQLO Japan. The CASE Journal, 19 (3), 381-416.
https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-07-2021-0098

Taira, Y., Hardisty, D. J., & Basto da Silva, R. J. B., & Carne, W. T. (2022). UNIQLO: Relaunching +J Collection. Ivey Publishing.
https://www.iveypublishing.ca/s/product/uniqlo-relaunching-j-collection/01t5c00000D64E0AAJ

Sheps, K. & the Ocean Decade Collaborative Center for the Northeast Pacific (2022). Putting Canada's Ocean Economy on the Path to Net Zero Emissions. Workshop participant.

Ruiz, L. Roddick, S., & Hardisty, D. J. (2022). Reminders to Expedite Claim Form Submission Among Injured Workers. (UBC-DIBS Working Paper 2022-CBI-04).

Climenhage, L. J., Khoo, M., Queisser, W., & Hardisty, D. J. (2022). I saw the sign! Using behaviourally-informed signs to encourage parking compliance. (UBC-DIBS Working Paper 2022-CBI-03).

Hardisty, D. J., White, K., Habib, R., & Zhao, J. (2022). Sustainable Nudges for the Wild: Recommendations from SHIFT. In Behavioral Science in the Wild. Rotman-UTP Publishing.

Chagani, P., Lai, E., Jensen, C., & Hardisty, D. J. (2021). See the sign, avoid the fine: TSZ parking signs in Vancouver. (UBC-DIBS Working Paper 2021-CBI-04).

Hardisty, D. J., Allard, T., & Griffin, D. (2020). Upgrade Your Pricing Strategy to Match Consumer Behavior. Harvard Business Review.

Hardisty, D. J., White, K., & Habib, R. (2019). 5 ways to shift consumers towards sustainable behaviour. The Conversation. [version francaise]

White, K., Habib, R., & Hardisty, D. J. (2019). The Elusive Green Consumer. Harvard Business Review.

Soster, R. & Hardisty, D. J. (2015). Communicating with Schools and Getting Organized for Summer AMA Interviews. In AMA Transitions Guide: Navigating the Progression from Doctoral Student to Marketing Professor. Presented by: The American Marketing Association and The AMA Doctoral Student Special Interest Group.

Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. (2009). The psychology of climate change communication: A guide for scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public. New York. Contributed the sections titled "Framing and the Politics of Carbon" in part 2, and "Provide Near-Term Incentives" in part 8.


Working Papers

Boegershausen, J., Yi, S., Cornil, Y. & Hardisty, D. J. (working paper). Testing the Digital Frontier: Opportunities and Validity Trade-offs in Digital Quasi-Experiments.

Du, G. & Hardisty, D. J. (working paper). When Do Coupon Purchase Preconditions Work? The Role of External Reference Points.

Catapano, R., Hardisty, D. J., & Aaker, J. (working paper). Moments that Last: Meaningfulness Slows Happiness Decay.

Griffioen, A., Hardisty, D.J., Handraaf, M., & Zhao, J. (working paper). Is it a Bright Idea? The Influence of Energy Efficiency Investments on Curtailment Behavior.

Hardisty, D. J., Sepehri, A. & Arora, P. (working paper). Precommitment as a nudge for safer choices in repeated decisions about low-probability, high-magnitude losses. [Web Appendix]

Hardisty, D. J., Sepehri, A., Kunreuther, H., Krantz, D. H., & Arora, P. (working paper). Precommitment and cooperation in stochastic versus deterministic social dilemmas.

Hardisty, D. J., Wang, W., Shim, Y., Sun, D., & Griffin, D. (working paper). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Activate Temporal Tradeoffs. [Online supplement]

Howard, C., Hardisty, D. J., Wang, C., & Griffin, D. (working paper) Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias.

Mansell, W., Li, Y., & Hardisty, D. J. (under review). Assessing patience and predictivity validity for mixed sign intertemporal choices.

Olivola, C., Hardisty, D. J., Lu, J., & Read, D. (working paper). What Drives Asymmetric Attention to Opportunity Costs? A Cognitive Process Analysis of the ASOC Effect.

Priolo, G., Stablum, F., Vacondio, M., … Hardisty, D. J., … Rubaltelli, E. (working paper). The robustness of mental accounting: a global perspective. Retrieved from https://osf.io/apc26

Yi, S., Hardisty, D. J., Griffin, D. W., & Allard, T. (working paper). The Price That Binds: Perceived Fairness and the Effectiveness of Restricted Price Promotions.

Zhang, L., Allard, T., Hardisty, D. J., & Wang, S. (working paper). The Charity Competence Curse: When Signals of Managerial Competence Backfire.


Conference Talks
* Indicates presenting author

*Hardisty, D.J., Appelt, K. C., Mookerjee, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, J., & Korteland, A. Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Nov 2023). Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change, Sacramento, CA.

*Hardisty, D.J. A/B Testing in Marketing Research: Recommendations for Reviewers (Oct 2023). Association for Consumer Research, Seattle, WA.

*Hardisty, D.J., Appelt, K. C., Mookerjee, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, J., & Korteland, A. Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Oct 2023). Association for Consumer Research, Seattle, WA.

*Hardisty, D.J., Appelt, K. C., Mookerjee, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, J., & Korteland, A. Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Aug 2023). Choice Symposium, Fontainbleau, France.

Cornil, Y., Yi, S., Boegershausen, J., & *Hardisty, D. J. (Jul 2023). Testing the Digital Frontier: Opportunities and Validity Tradeoffs in Digital Quasi-Experiments. European Association for Consumer Research, Amsterdam, NL.

Du, G., & *Hardisty, D. J. (Jun 2023). When Do Purchase Precondition Promotions Work? The Role of External Reference Points. La Londe Marketing Conference. Porquerolles, FR.

*Hardisty, D.J., Appelt, K. C., Mookerjee, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, J., & Korteland, A. Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Nov 2022). Big Difference BC, Online.

*Hardisty, D. J., Sepehri, A., & Arora, P. (Mar 2020). "Once? No. Twenty times? Sure!" Uncertainty and precommitment in repeated choice. Society for Consumer Psychology, Huntington Beach, CA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Beall, A., Lubowski, R., Petsonk, A., & Romero-Canyas, R. (Mar 2020). A carbon price by another name may seem sweeter: Democrat and Republican responses to "upstream" offsets vs "downstream" taxes. Society for Consumer Psychology, Huntington Beach, CA.

Cornil, Y., *Hardisty, D. J., & Bart, Y. (Nov 2019). Easy, breezy, risky: Lay investors fail to diversify because correlated assets feel more fluent and less risky. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Montreal, QC.

Molouki, S., *Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. (Oct 2019). The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting. Association for Consumer Research, Atlanta, GA.

*Hardisty, D. J., & Weber, E. U. (Oct 2019). The Sign Effect in Consumer Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and Explanation. Association for Consumer Research, Atlanta, GA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Sepehri, A., & Arora, P. (May 2019). "Once? No. Twenty times? Sure!" Uncertainty and precommitment in repeated choice. UBC-UW Marketing Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Molouki, S., *Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. (May 2019). The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting. Southern Ontario Behavioural Decision Research, Waterloo, ON.

Molouki, S., *Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. (Jan 2019). The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting. Judgment and Decision-Making Winter Symposium, Snowbird, UT.

Molouki, S., *Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. (Nov 2018). The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, New Orleans, LA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Kunreuther, H. Krantz, D., Arora, P., & Sepehri, A. (Oct 2018). "Once? No. Twenty times? Sure!" Uncertainty and precommitment in social dilemmas. Association for Consumer Research, Dallas, TX.

Dhaliwal, N., *Hardisty, D. J., & Zhao, J. (Oct 2018). Green Biases: Consumer Evaluations of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources. Association for Consumer Research, Dallas, TX.

Shecter, S., & *Hardisty, D. J. (Oct 2018). The Victory Effect: Is First-Place Seeking Stronger than Last-Place Aversion?. Association for Consumer Research, Dallas, TX.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (Sep 2018). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. A BIG Difference for BC: Using Behavioural Insights to Solve Policy Challenges Together, Victoria, BC, Canada.

*Hardisty, D. J., Beal, A., Lubowski, R., Petsonk, A., & Romero-Canyas, R. (Jun 2018). A Carbon Price by Another Name May Seem Sweeter: Consumers Prefer Upstream Offsets to Equivalent Downstream Taxes. JACR Boutique Conference on Prosocial Consumer Behavior, Whistler, BC.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (March 2018). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. [Youtube Video of presentation does not include slides.] Behavioural Insights in Canada, Toronto, ON.

*Hardisty, D. J., Beall, A., Lubowski, R., Petsonk, A., & Romero-Canyas, R. (Feb 2018). A Carbon Price by Another Name May Seem Sweeter: Consumers Prefer Upstream Offsets to Equivalent Downstream Taxes. Society for Consumer Psychology, Dallas, TX.

*Hardisty, D. J., Beall, A., Lubowski, R., Petsonk, A., & Romero-Canyas, R. (Oct 2017). A Carbon Price by Another Name May Seem Sweeter: Consumers Prefer Upstream Offsets to Equivalent Downstream Taxes. Association for Consumer Research, San Diego, CA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (Feb 2017). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. Society for Consumer Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Frederick, S. & Weber, E. U. (Oct 2016). The bright side of dread: Anticipation asymmetries explain why losses are discounted less than gains. Association for Consumer Research, Berlin, Germany.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (Oct 2016). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. Association for Consumer Research, Berlin, Germany.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (June 2016). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Toronto, ON.

Read, D., Olivola, C. Y. & *Hardisty, D. J. (Feb 2016). The Value of Nothing: Asymmetric Attention to Opportunity Costs Drives Intertemporal Decision Making. Society for Consumer Psychology, St. Pete Beach, FL.

*Hardisty, D. J., Frederick, S. & Weber, E. U. (Feb 2016). The bright side of dread: Anticipation asymmetries explain why losses are discounted less than gains. Society for Consumer Psychology, St. Pete Beach, FL.

*Hardisty, D. J., Shim, Y., Sun, D. & Griffin, D. (Nov 2015). Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

*Howard, R. C., Hardisty, D. J., Knoll, M., & Sussman, A. (Nov 2015). Understanding the Expense Prediction Bias . Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

*Hardisty, D. J., Sussman, A., Knoll, M., Shaddy, F., & Howard, R. C. (Dec 2014). Predicting consumer use (and mis-use) of payday loans. Conference on Emotions and Well-being, Vancouver, BC.

Read, D., Olivola, C. Y., & *Hardisty, D. J. (Jun 2014). The Value of Nothing: How Patience is Increased by Making Later Opportunity Costs Salient. UBC-UW Marketing Conference, Seattle, WA.

*Hardisty, D. J., & Pfeffer, J. (Nov 2012). Does Prospect Theory Hold in Intertemporal Choice? The interaction of time and risk in preferences for gains and losses. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Minneapolis, MN.

*Hardisty, D. J., Frederick, S. & Weber, E. U. (Oct 2012). Good or bad, we want it now: Resolution theory explains magnitude reversal in intertemporal choice. Association for Consumer Research, Vancouver, BC.

*Hardisty, D. J., Frederick, S. & Weber, E. U. (June 2012). Dental procedures and movie star kisses: Dread looms larger than savoring. Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Boulder, CO.

Appelt, K. C., *Hardisty, D. J., & Weber, E. U. (Oct 2011). I Want It Now!: Query Theory Explains Discounting Anomalies for Gains and Losses. Association for Consumer Research, St. Louis, MO.

*Hardisty, D. J., Frederick, S. & Weber, E. U. (Nov 2010). "I can't stand waiting!" Dread looms larger than pleasurable anticipation. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, MO.

*Hardisty, D. J., Thompson, K., Krantz, D., & Weber, E. U. (June 2010). How to measure discount rates? An experimental comparison of three methods. Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Pittsburgh, PA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Appelt, K. C., & Weber, E. U. (Nov 2009). I want it now!: Why discount rates for losses show reverse frame and reverse magnitude effects. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Kunreuther, H., Krantz, D. H., & Arora, P. (Aug 2009). Time horizons in interdependent security. International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Kyoto, Japan.

*Hardisty, D. J., Johnson, E. J., & Weber, E. U. (Nov 2008). A Dirty Word or a Dirty World? Attribute Framing, Politics, and Query Theory. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL. [also: transcript from presentation at Nov 7th CRED lab meeting]

*Hardisty, D. J., Milch, K. F., Appelt, K., Handgraaf, M. J. J., Arora, P., Krantz, D. H. & Weber, E. U. (Nov 2007). Discounting of Environmental Goods and Discounting in Social Contexts. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, CA.


Conference Posters
* Indicates presenting author

Zhang, L., Allard, T., *Hardisty, D. J., & Wang, S. (Nov 2023). The Charity Competence Curse: When Signals of Managerial Competence Backfire. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, San Francisco, CA.

Hardisty, D.J., Appelt, K. C., *Mookerjee, S., Wang, Y., Zhao, J., & Korteland, A. Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Nov 2023). Society for Judgment and Decision Making, San Francisco, CA.

*Dhaliwal, N., Zhao, J., & Hardisty, D. J. (Nov 2015). Green biases: Evaluating renewable and non-renewable energy. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

*Molouki, S., Hardisty, D. J., & Caruso, E. (Nov 2015). The sign effect in past and future discounting. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

Hardisty, D. J., Howard, R. C., *Knoll, M., Shaddy, F. & Sussman, A. (May 2015). Consumer predictions and payday loans: Expecting the best and getting the worst. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, DC.

*Hardisty, D. J., Weber, E. U., & Treuer, G. (Nov 2011). Temporal Discounting of Real vs Hypothetical Gains and Losses. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Kunreuther, H., Krantz, D. H. & Arora, P. (Jan 2010). Time Horizons in Interdependent Security. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

*Hardisty, D. J., Kunreuther, H., Krantz, D. H. & Arora, P. (Nov 2009). Time Horizons in Interdependent Security. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Johnson, E. J. & Weber, E. U. (May 2009). A Dirty Word or a Dirty World? Framing, Politics, and Query Theory. Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

*Hardisty, D. J., Johnson, E. J., & Weber, E. U. (Jan 2009). Framing Interacts With Political Affiliation to Predict Environmentally-Relevant Purchase Preferences. Association for Consumer Research, Hyderabad, India.

*Hardisty, D. J. & Weber, E. U. (Nov 2008). Pricing Out Environmental Outcomes Yields Lower Discount Rates. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.

Hardisty, D. J. & Haaga, D. A. H. (May 2008). Open Access Matters: Increasing Reading Rates and Responses by Mental Health Professionals. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

*Hardisty, D. J. & Sanitioso, R. B. (May 2007). Text Based Discussion Influences Group Risk Preference and Decision Making. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.


Invited Talks

Researching Green: Consumer Financial Decision Making (Apr 2024). Faculty-Wide Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

The deal's the limit: When and why restricted promotions work (Feb 2024). Marketing Seminar, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

The deal's the limit: When and why restricted promotions work (Jan 2024). Marketing Seminar, INSEAD, Singapore.

Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias (Jan 2024). Marketing Seminar, Singapore Management University, Singapore.

SHIFTing pro-environmental behaviors through choice architecture (May 2023). Facilitating Environmental Decisions using Choice Architecture: New lessons from the lab and field (Workshop), TUM Campus Heilbronn, Germany.

Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (May 2023). Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology (IBT-HSG), St. Gallen University, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias (April 2023). Marketing Seminar, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [Also presented at: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]

Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (March 2023). JDM Lab, Padova University, Padova, Italy.

Navigating the implicit rules of the post-covid job market (March 2023). PhD Workshop, ESSEC University, Paris, France.

Testing the Digital Frontier: Opportunities and Validity Tradeoffs in Digital Quasi-Experiments (March 2023). PhD Workshop, ESSEC University, Paris, France.

Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias (Feb 2023). Brown Bag Seminar, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (Nov 2022). BC Hydro, Online.

Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias (Sep 2022). Behavioral Economics Decision Research Seminar Series, Cornell University, NY.

Documenting and Debiasing the Income Prediction Bias (Sep 2022). UCSD Marketing Seminar Series, University of California San Diego, CA.

Twice as nice? A Longitudinal Field Study of Separate vs. Combined Nudges for Household Laundry Behaviours (May 2022). UBC Decision Insights for Business and Society Seminar, Online.

Opportunities in Business Research (Mar 2021). Ch'nook Scholars, Online.

Web Scraping and Facebook AB Testing (Mar 2021). Society for Consumer Psychology Doctoral Consortium, Online.

Ethics & Sustainability in Case Competitions (Feb 2021), JDC West Case Workshop, Online.

Impatience and savoring versus dread: Asymmetries in anticipation explain consumer time preferences for positive versus negative events (Nov 2020). Grupo de Estudos em Pesquisa Experimental em Comportamento do Consumidor, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil.

"Once? No. Twenty times? Sure!" Uncertainty and precommitment in repeated choice (Feb 2020). Bocconi Marketing Seminar, Bocconi University, Italy.

"Once? No. Twenty times? Sure!" Uncertainty and precommitment in repeated choice (May 2019). Ivey Business School Marketing Seminar, Western University, ON. [Also presented at: University of Toronto]

The sign effect in past and future discounting (Feb 2019). Morrison Marketing Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, CA. [Also presented at: USC and UC Riverside]

Movie star kisses and electric shocks - The Sign Effect in Past and Future Discounting (Jan 2019). Marketing Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Encouraging Energy Efficiency: Product Labels Facilitate Temporal Tradeoffs (Jan 2017). Wharton Decision Processes Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

The bright side of dread: Anticipation asymmetries explain why losses are discounted less than gains (Jan 2017). Social & Personality Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Imagine Day: Meet a Professor (Sept 2015). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Consumer behaviour and presentation tips (May 2015). Elite Mentors Association, Vancouver, BC.

The cost of paying more (Apr 2015). Sauder After Dark, Vancouver, BC.

Tackling temporal tradeoffs in energy efficiency (Oct 2014). Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and UPEP Environmental Institutions Seminar Series, Duke University, NC.

Tackling temporal tradeoffs in energy efficiency (Oct 2014). Behavioural Sustainability Group, University of British Columbia, BC.

Time and risk preferences for losses (Sept 2014). Operations and Logistics Seminar, University of British Columbia, BC.

Consumer decision making and public policy nudges (May 2014). Future Entrepreneurs and Leaders Program, University of British Columbia, BC.

Timescale Mismatches (May 2014). Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University, NY.

Choosing energy efficiency (May 2014). Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University, NY.

When to pay? Consumer decisions about immediate vs future losses (Oct 2013). Shansby Research Seminar in Marketing at Berkeley University, Berkeley, CA.

Temporal Discounting of Losses (Sep 2012). Marketing Seminar, University of British Columbia, BC. [This talk also presented at: Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Warwick, and University of Washington.]

A Dirty Word Or A Dirty World? Attribute Framing, Politics, and Query Theory (Jun 2009). Social psychology course at Columbia University, New York, NY.

A Dirty Word Or A Dirty World? Attribute Framing, Politics, and Query Theory (Feb 2009). United Nations Graduate Seminar on Climate Change, New York, NY.


Awards

Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award
 
2024
Best Reviewer, Journal of Consumer Psychology
 
2024
Best Reviewer, Journal of Consumer Psychology
 
2023
John Castellan Service Award, Society for Judgment & Decision Making
 
2022
AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing
 
2021
Research Excellence Award, Junior Category, UBC Sauder
 
2019
Phi Beta Kappa, Honors, Distinction, Stanford University
 
2003

Fellowships and Grants

SSHRC Insight Grant
"Collaborative Nudging: A new framework for shifting behaviour" (SSHRC ID# 435-2024-0889)
 
$198,530  2024-2029
SSHRC Insight Grant
"Toward a death that begets life? Relational values and action for transformative change in deathcare" (SSHRC ID# 435-2024-0989)
 
$309,964  2024-2029
UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters
"Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS)"
 
$199,976  2024-2026
UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters
"Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory"
 
$100,000  2024-2026
SSHRC Connection Grant
"Behavioural Insights into Business for Social Good: A Roadmap for Real Change"
 
$24,980  2023-2024
UBC STAIR Grant
"Let Death Beget Life? Understanding the Potential for Sustainability Transformation in Burial and Legacy Practices"
 
$45,000  2022-2023
SSHRC Insight Development Grant
"Using joint evaluation to increase donations to needy charities"
 
$64,650  2021-2023
Sauder Exploratory Grants Program
"Using joint evaluation to increase donations to needy charities"
 
$8,000  2021
Mitacs Research Training Award
"Sustainability Labelling Research Training"
 
$6,000  2020
Sauder Exploratory Grants Program
"Pains and gains: lose-now-gain-later intertemporal choices predict self-care behaviors"
 
$6032  2020
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
"Sustainable Behavioural Insights: Developing a Framework for Nudging Long-Term Behaviour Change"
 
$196,000  2020
UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters
"Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS) cluster"
 
$99,746  2020
SSHRC Connection Grant
"Behavioural insights into business for social good"
 
$19,990  2019
The Think Forward Initiative (Funded by ING Bank)
"Understanding and Reducing Income Prediction Bias for Workers in the Gig Economy"
 
€65,200  2019-2020
SSHRC Connection Grant
"A big difference: Using behavioural insights to address policy challenges"
 
$16,792  2018
Environmental Defense Fund Grant
"Alternatives for 'Passing Through' Carbon Prices: An Experimental Analysis of Salience, Behavioral Change and Political Acceptability"
 
$52,057  2016-2017
SSHRC Insight Grant
"Understanding and Eliminating the Expense Prediction Bias and Downstream Consequences"
 
$152,582  2016-2020
SSHRC Insight Development Grant
"Predicting Consumer Use of Payday Loans"
 
$74,650  2014-2016
Sauder Exploratory Research Grant
"Resource Constraints"
 
$9,050  2014-2015
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: SES-1024599
"Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Discounting Future Losses"
co-written with Elke Weber, Daphna Shohamy, and G. Elliott Wimmer
 
$22,310  2010-2011
NSF Decision Risk & Management Science Grant
"Temporal Discounting of Social Goals"
co-written with Dave Krantz and Elke Weber
 
$644,335  2008-2011
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
"Temporal Discounting of Environmental Outcomes"
 
$122,500  2007-2010
INSEAD Research Partner
 
$1,500  2005-2006
Stanford Small Funds Grant Recipient
 
$500  2002-2003
Stanford Summer Research Fellowship
 
$3,000  2002

Courses Taught

Experimentation & Causal Inference
 
2024
The Behavioural & Decision Sciences (CBI-103)
 
2023
Basic Statistical Analysis for Behavioural Insights (CBI-107)
 
2021-2022
Introduction to Data for Behavioural Insights (CBI-106)
 
2021-2022
Values, Ethics & Community (COMM105)
 
2020-2023
Ethics & Sustainability (BA560)
 
2017-2019
Consumer Decision Making (COMM663)
 
2014,2016
Consumer Behaviour (COMM362)
 
2014-2019
Decisions About the Future
 
Fall 2012

Graduate Students Supervised

Student nameProgramYear GraduatingSupervisory Role
Judith KasMasters2015Committee member & co-supervisor
Anouk GriffoenMasters2018Committee member & co-supervisor
Hongki KimPhD2018Committee member
Daniel PapaniaPhD2019Committee member
Chuck HowardPhD2020Committee member & Co-supervisor
Amir SepheriPhD2021Committee member & Co-supervisor
Rishad HabibPhD2021Committee member & Co-supervisor
Natasha PestonjiPhD2022Committee member
Colton StevensMasters2022Committee member
Rumi NaitoPhD2023Committee member
Shangwen YiPhD2025Committee chair & Supervisor
Dana JohnsonPhD2025Committee member & Co-supervisor
Guanzhong DuPhD2026Supervisor

Service to the Field

Editorial Board Member
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition

Ad Hoc Reviewer
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Association for Consumer Research: Annual Conference
Cognition
Economics Letters
Energy and Buildings
European Association of Consumer Research: Annual Conference
Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology
Frontiers in Personality & Social Psychology
Health Economics
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Israeli Science Foundation
Journal of Consumer Psychology
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology:General
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Marketing Research
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Judgment and Decision Making
La Londe Marketing Conference
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Management Science
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Nature: Human Behavior
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
PCI Registered Reports
PLOS One
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psychological Science
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Quarterly Journal of Economic Psychology
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Risk Analysis
Social Behavior and Personality
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Society for Consumer Psychology: Annual Conference
Society for Judgment and Decision Making: Annual Conference
Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC)
Sustainability

External Reviewer for Promotion/Tenure
2023 (x2)

Webmaster
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