Research Interests: behavioral economics, judgment and decision making, behavior change. Katy Milkman is the James G. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, student achievement, vaccination and discrimination. She has published dozens of research articles in leading academic journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , and her findings are regularly covered by major media outlets.
Jose A. Cervantez and Katherine L. Abstract: In this article, we review and summarize key findings from a growing literature exploring how nudges can facilitate efforts to diversify organizations. Nudges are psychologically-informed interventions that change behavior without restricting choice or altering incentives.
We focus on two types of nudges to enhance organizational diversity: 1 nudges that target organizational processes directly or the decision makers who oversee them to increase the diversity of those hired and promoted and 2 nudges that target the underrepresented candidates themselves to increase the diversity of those applying for organizational roles. We categorize nudges designed to enhance organizational diversity, both by their target and based on the psychology they leverage to improve outcomes for women and racial minorities.
Linda W. Abstract: People often rely on numeric metrics to make decisions and form judgments. Numbers can be difficult to process, leading to their underutilization, but they are also uniquely suited to making comparisons. Do people decide differently when some dimensions of a choice are quantified and others are not? Participants face choices that involve tradeoffs e. We identify one key mechanism that underlies quantification fixation and moderates its strength: When making comparative judgments, which are essential to tradeoff decisions, numeric information is more fluent than non-numeric information.
Our findings suggest that when we count, we change what counts. Katherine L. Milkman , Sean F. Ellis, Dena Gromet, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Lewis Jr. John A. List, Mitesh S. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathan K. Bellows, Cheryl A. To avert hundreds of thousands of unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths, adoption will need to be higher than it was in the autumn of or , when less than one-fifth of Americans received booster vaccines.
