Barbara Mellers

Barbara A. Mellers
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Thesis Equity judgment: A revision of Aristotelian views  (1981)
Doctoral advisorMichael H. Birnbaum

Barbara Ann Mellers is the I. George Heyman University Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her research focuses on decision processes.

In 2017, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government awarded Mellers the Thomas C. Schelling Award in recognition of "remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy."[2]

She worked with the Nobel Prize winning economist and psychologist, Daniel Kahneman to analyze the research of Matthew Killingsworth to help come to a consensus on how money and wealth influences happiness.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Berger, Michele W. (March 17, 2017). "Penn PIK Professors Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock Win 2017 Schelling Awards". Penn Today. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  3. ^ Sunstein, Cass (April 2, 2024). "New York Times". The New York Times.