Drazen Prelec

Drazen Prelec holds academic appointments in the Department of Economics and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, focusing on the psychology and neuroscience of decision-making.

His research spans behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, risky choice, time discounting, self-control, and consumer behavior, with emphasis on both normative decision theory development and empirical analysis of its failures using behavioral and fMRI methodologies. Key contributions include frameworks for identifying truth in collective judgments and neural mechanisms of self-signaling.

Professor Prelec actively disseminated findings through 2017 presentations at major European institutions:

• IméRA (Marseille): Finding truth when most people are wrong
• Aix-Marseille School of Economics: Brain mechanisms of self-signaling, under oath
• University of Strasbourg: Bringing out the truth when the majority is wrong
• OECD Paris: Honest neurons: A framework for neural economics