James Konow

My area of research is behavioral economics, i.e., an approach to economics informed by psychology. Behavioral economists usually explore economic behavior and decision-making processes that are at variance with the predictions of conventional economic models. Within this approach, I specialize in economics and ethics, which examines the roles of justice, altruism, reciprocity, and other ethical concerns in the economic domain. Typically, my studies in this area contain both a theoretical component as well as empirical evidence on the theory drawn from experiments and/or surveys.