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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
E: gael.le-mens @ upf.edu |
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My research focuses on learning by individuals and organizations. Several of my papers explain how individuals might develop and maintain inaccurate beliefs because they rely on the biased samples of information they obtain from their experiences. The information used for learning may be biased because more information is available about alternatives that decision makers believe to be good and thus sample again, whereas less information is available about alternatives that decision makers believe to be poor and thus avoid. In addition, the information individuals have access to also depends on the opportunities the social context provides them with for learning about alternatives they might otherwise avoid. Some of my other projects have examined the development of technological trajectories, the evolution of cultural tastes, and dynamics of organizational failure. My research has been published in scientific journals
such as Psychological Review or the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science of the USA (PNAS), and popular accounts have appeared in the
New York Times, the Times (London), WSJ.com, FT.com, USA Today,
ABCNews.com, Focus and
other in-print and online periodicals. |
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Publications |
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Interdependent Sampling and Social
Influence
(with Jerker Denrell), Psychological Review, April 2007, Vol.
114, No. 2, 398-422. |
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Illusory Correlation as
the Outcome of Experience Sampling (with Jerker Denrell),
in B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the
30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
421-426), August 2008. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. |
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Studying Organizational Populations Over Time
(with Glenn R. Carroll, Mi Feng and Dave McKendrick),
Handbook of Organizational
Research Methods, D. Buchanan and A. Bryman (Eds.). Sage Publications,
London, May 2009. |
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How Adoption Speed Affects the Abandonment of Cultural Tastes
(with Jonah Berger), Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States (PNAS), May 19th, 2009, 106:8146-8150. |
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Key Considerations in Studying Cultural
Abandonment Using Baby Names (with
Jonah Berger),
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
(PNAS), September 29th, 2009, 106. |
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Working Papers |
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Environmental Changes and the
Dynamics of Organizational Mortality, under review, 2008. |
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Organizational Evolution in a Fuzzy Technological Environment:
Tape Drive Producers in the World Market, 1951-1998 (with Glenn
Carroll, Edward Feng and Dave McKendrick),
R&R at Organization Science, 2008.
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A
Rational Analysis of Belief Formation Under Differential Access to
Information
(with Jerker Denrell),
working paper, 2009. |
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Learning
to be Satisfied with the Status Quo
(with Jerker Denrell),
working paper, 2009. |
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Research in Progress |
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Hedonic Desires, Avoidance Behavior
and Negativity Bias
(with Jerker Denrell) |
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Age-Dependence Revisited (with Michael Hannan and
László Pólos). |
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Conference Presentations (Past and Upcoming) |
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Adoption Velocity
and the Abandonment of Cultural Tastes (with Jonah Berger). Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management,
Chicago USA, August 2009.
Age-Dependence
Revisited (with Michael Hannan). Paper presented at the Nagymaros
Conference, Verona, Italy, July 2009. Experience Sampling and Information about Foregone Payoffs. Oral presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference, Chicago, IL, November 2008.
Experience Sampling in Causal Learning, symposium
presentation at the
Annual meeting of the Academy of Management,
OMT division, Anaheim, CA, August 2008. How Concerns for Legitimacy Can Bias Assessments of Efficiency (with Jerker Denrell). Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, OMT division, Anaheim, CA, August 2008, and at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008. Organizational Evolution in a Fuzzy Technological Environment: Tape Drive Producers in the World Market, 1951-1998* (with Glenn R. Carroll, Mi Feng and Dave McKendrick). Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, OMT division, Anaheim, CA, August 2008 and at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 2008. Illusory Correlations as the Outcome of Experiential Sampling (with Jerker Denrell). Paper presented at the Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC, July 2008, and at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. Adoption Velocity and the Death of Culture (with Jonah Berger), poster presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, Ca, April 2008. Learning about Multi-Attribute Objects: Illusory Correlation in Person Perception (with Jerker Denrell), poster Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Albuquerque, NV, February 2008; and at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, Ca, April 2008. Endogenous Attitude Formation and Group Polarization: poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Albuquerque, NV, February 2008; Environmental Changes and the Dynamics of Organizational Mortality, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 2007. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, OMT division, Anaheim, CA, August 2008. Paper presented at the Ecology Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, June 2008. Learning to be Myopic (with Jerker Denrell), 2007, paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, BPS division, Philadelphia, August 2007. Cognitive Frames and Managerial Learning: Are More Refined Representations Always Better?, paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, BPS division, Atlanta, August 2006. Interdependent Sampling and Social Influence (with Jerker Denrell), paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Vancouver, July 2006. Interdependent Sampling and
Social Contagion (with Jerker Denrell), paper presented at the
Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management,
OMT division, Honolulu, August 2005, and at the American Sociological
Association, Philadelphia, August 2005. |
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Technical Report |
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Swing
Option Valuation Using Markov Chains Modeling (with Steven Brown), Electricité
de France, Technical Report HR31/03/010/A, 2003. |
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Dpt of Economics and Business | Barcelona GSE
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