Brian Jabarian is the Howard and Nancy Marks Principal Researcher at Chicago Booth Business School

Through behavioral and experimental economic methods, Brian explores behaviors through these three intertwined perspectives: Mental Models : contingent reasoning; critical thinking; perception and experience. Human-Technology Interaction: how to integrate emergent technologies in behavioral sciences and how to use behavioral sciences to study human-technology interaction. Complexity and Knowledge: scientific methods, knowledge, understanding; ambiguity and uncertainty.

Working Papers

Critical Thinking and Storytelling
with Elia Sartori
pdf | knowledge studio | AI

A Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox
with Simon Lazarus
pdf | knowledge studio
CESifo w10745

The Virtues of Lab Experiments
with Gary Charness, James Cox, Catherine Eckel, Charles Holt
pdf | knowledge studio
CESifo w10796
Under Review

Generation Next: Experimentation with AI
with Gary Charness, John List
pdf | knowledge studio
NBER w31679
Under Review

Other Writings

  • The Virtues of Lab Experiments
    with Gary Charness, James Cox, Catherine Eckel, Charles Holt
    Revision in Progress

    Generation Next: Experimentation with AI
    with Gary Charness, John List
    pdf | NBER w31679

  • The Moral Burden of Ambiguity: A Two-Ball Ellsberg Experiment, PEA Soup, P&PA Discussion Series, 2019, invited by Alex Voorhoeve, Thomas Rowe, David Faraci

    Divine Luck, Moral Uncertainty, and the Book of Job, Working Paper, 2017

  • Decision Under Normative Uncertainty, Economics and Philosophy, 2022, with Franz Dietrich

    Axiomatics Foundation of Normative Uncertainty, Working Paper, 2020 [accessible on request], with Franz Dietrich

    The Risk Attitude Under Normative Uncertainty, Working Paper, 2020 [accessible on request], with Franz Dietrich

  • Twitter Thread
    World Economic Forum
    Chicago Booth Review

  • VoxEU