Irwin Levin

Professor Emeritus
Biography

Research Interests
Models of human judgment and decision making The effects of inference and information frame on judgments and decisions; Individual differences in children's and adults' decision making; Decision Neuroscience. Applications in areas such as consumer behavior.

Representative Publications
Xue G., Lu, Z., Levin, I.P., Weller, J.A., Li, X., & Bechara, A. (in press). Functional dissociations of risk and reward processing in the medial prefrontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex.

Lauriola, M., Levin, I.P., & Hart, S.S. (2007). Common and distinct factors in decision making under ambiguity and risk: A psychometric study of individual differences. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 104, 130-149.

Weller, J.A., Levin, I.P., Shiv, B, & Bechara, A. (2007). Neural correlates of adaptive decision making in risky gains and losses. Psychological Science 18, 958-964.

Levin, I. P., Weller, J.A., Harshman, L.A., & Pederson, A.A. (2007). Age-related differences in adaptive decision making: Sensitivity to expected value in risky choice. Judgment and Decision Making 2 225-233.

Irwin Levin
Education
PhD, UCLA, 1965