Clayton Critcher

Clayton Critcher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Haas School of Business. His research focuses on social and moral judgment, self-regulation, and decision-making processes. He explores topics such as self-insight, cognitive biases, and the psychological mechanisms underlying political polarization and fake news perception.

His work combines experimental methods with theoretical frameworks from social and personality psychology. Key themes include how individuals perceive progress, the impact of perspective-taking on partisan divides, and the cognitive processes behind moral evaluations. Critcher’s research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

His articles reflect a focus on behavioral forecasting, judgment heuristics, and the interplay between emotion and decision-making. Notable areas include the 'privileged information effect,' 'doubling-back aversion,' and the role of incidental states in shaping predictions about future events.

Critcher is involved in teaching and research activities at UC Berkeley’s Department of Psychology. His office is located at 2121 Berkeley Way, 3rd Floor. Contact details include the departmental email psychadmin@berkeley.edu.