Shane Frederick (born 1968) is an associate professor at Yale School of Management, which recently acquired him from MIT. He is the creator of the "Cognitive Reflection Test", or CRT, a form of intelligence test that tests how "rational" testees are. People who score high are less vulnerable to various biases in thinking including prospect theory and irrational intertemporal choices. [1]
He is considered to be an authority on decision-making and intertemporal choice, time preferences and discount functions, and has authored papers with, among others, George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, emeritus of Princeton University.
Shane Frederick was born in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and went on to graduate from the
Selected publications
- Representativeness revisited: Attribute substitution in intuitive judgment (with D. Kahneman)
- Time discounting and time preference: a critical review (with T. O'Donoghue)
External links
- Would You Take the Bird in the Hand, or a 75% Chance at Two in the Bush?, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2006
- Holiday Discounts May Not Be Enough, Boston Globe, Dec. 11, 2007
- Shane Frederick's MIT Home Page
- Shane's Yale SOM Page
- Critical Review of the CRT
References
- ^ Cognitive Reflection Test, The paper on CRT
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