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David Hagmann

Assistant Professor
Department of Management
The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology

hagmann@ust.hk
Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Positions

Assistant Professor (2021 – current)
Department of Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow (2019 – 2021)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Education

M.S. & Ph.D. Behavioral Decision Research
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

B.A. Mathematics & Economics
Fordham University

About

My research draws on experimental tools from psychology and economics to study how people engage with information and how this affects the decisions they make. Across published papers and ongoing projects, my work documents a widespread desire to actively avoid information, even when this can have costly consequences and lead to worse decisions.