Daniel M. Bartels

Columbia University Graduate School of Business
3022 Broadway, Uris 502
New York, NY 10027

Office: 212-854-1557
E-mail: dmb2199@columbia.edu
Vita (in PDF format)

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Columbia University, 2010 – Present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago GSB, 2007 – 2010
Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Northwestern University, 2007 (M.S. in 2002)
    Committee: Douglas Medin (chair), Lance Rips, Reid Hastie
B.S., Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2001

Interests

Judgment and Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Moral Psychology, Concepts and Categories


Journal Articles

Burns, Zachary C., Eugene M. Caruso, and Daniel M. Bartels (2012), "Predicting premeditation: Future behavior is seen as more intentional than past behavior," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 227-232.

With Paul H. Robinson and Sean E. Jackowitz (2012), "Extralegal Punishment Factors: A Study of Forgiveness, Hardship, Good Deeds, Apology, Remorse, and Other Such Discretionary Factors in Assessing Criminal Punishment," Vanderbilt Law Review, 65, 737-826.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Oleg Urminsky (2011), "On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption," Journal of Consumer Research, 38, 182-198.

Bartels, Daniel M. and David A. Pizarro (2011), "The Mismeasure of Morals: Antisocial Personality Traits Predict Utilitarian Responses to Moral Dilemmas," Cognition, 121, 154-161.

Burns, Zachary C., Eugene M. Caruso, and Daniel M. Bartels (2011), "Predicting premeditation: Future behavior is seen as more intentional than past behavior," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Russell C. Burnett (2011), "A Group Construal Account of Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking in Policy Preference and Moral Judgment," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 50-57.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Lance J. Rips (2010), "Psychological Connectedness and Intertemporal Choice," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 49-69.

Bennis, Will M., Douglas L. Medin and Daniel M. Bartels (2010), "The Costs and Benefits of Calculation and Moral Rules," Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 187-202.

Bennis, Will M., Douglas L. Medin and Daniel M. Bartels (2010), "Perspectives on the Ecology of Decision Modes: Reply to Comments," Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 213-215.

Robinson, Paul H., Michael T. Cahill, and Daniel M. Bartels (2010), "Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory," Texas Law Review, 89, 291-532.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2008), "Principled Moral Sentiment and the Flexibility of Moral Judgment and Decision Making," Cognition, 108, 381-417.

Day, Samuel B. and Daniel M. Bartels (2008), "Representation over Time: The Effects of Temporal Distance on Similarity," Cognition, 106, 1504-1513.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Douglas L. Medin (2007), "Are Morally-Motivated Decision Makers Insensitive to the Consequences of their Choices?," Psychological Science, 18, 24-28.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2006), "Proportion Dominance: The Generality and Variability of Favoring Relative Savings over Absolute Savings," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 100, 76-95.

Bloomfield, Amber, Josh Sager, Daniel M. Bartels, and Douglas L. Medin (2006), "Caring about Framing Effects," Mind and Society, 5, 1504-1513.


Papers in Various Stages of Development

With Oleg Urminisky and Shane Frederick (in preparation), "Spending, Opportunities to Save, and Intertemporal Egoism: The Role of Connectedness to the Future Self in Consumers' Financial Tradeoffs."

With Samuel B. Day (in preparation), "The Effects of Prior Use on Attribute Weights in Consumer Preference."

With Oleg Urminsky (in preparation), "Similarity in Context: Implications for Consumer Judgment and Choice."


Books

Bartels, Daniel M., Christopher W. Bauman, Linda J. Skitka, and Douglas L. Medin, Eds. (2009), "Moral Judgment and Decision Making: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50," San Diego: Elsevier


Chapters

Iliev, Rumen, Sonya Sachdeva, Daniel M. Bartels, Craig M. Joseph, Satoru Suzuki, and Douglas L. Medin (2009), "Attending to Moral Values," In Daniel M. Bartels, Christopher W. Bauman, Linda J. Skitka, and Douglas L. Medin (Eds.) Moral Judgment and Decision Making: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol 50. San Diego: Elsevier, 169-190.


Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings Papers

Jameson, Jason T., Dedre Gentner, Samuel B. Day, Stella Christie, Julie Colhoun, and Daniel M. Bartels (2005), "Clarifying the Role of Alignability in Similarity Comparisons," Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2005. Hillsdale, NJ: Earlbaum.


Conference and Symposium Organization

Bartels, Daniel M. and A. Peter McGraw (2010), "Moral Flexibility in Consumer Behavior," Symposium presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, Florida.

Bartels, Daniel M. and A. Peter McGraw (2010), "Moral Flexibility in Judgment and Decision Making," Symposium presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, Florida.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2009, October), "Long-term Decisions and Focusing on the Future," Symposium to be presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bauman, Christopher W., Daniel M. Bartels, Craig M. Joseph, and Adam D. Galinsky (2007, April), "Values-Driven Judgment and Reasoning," Funded by the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship and presented at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Illinois.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2006, November), "Morally-Motivated Judgment and Decision Making," Symposium organized and presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.


Selected Conference and Invited Presentations

Bartels, Daniel M. (2011), "How Thoughts about the Future Self Affect Far-Sighted Behavior," Presented at the NYU Law Furman Center Symposium on Sustainable Homeownership, New York, NY.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2011), "How Psychological Connectedness to the Future Self Affects Saving and Spending," Presented at the Behavioral Finance Forum, Washington, D.C.

Urminsky, Oleg and Daniel M. Bartels (2010), "Shifting the Basis of Perceived Similarity: Implications for Consumer Inference and Choice," Presented at the Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, Missouri.

  -- Also presented at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia, and at the 2011 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2010), "Imagining and Caring about Distant Future Welfare," Presented at the Wharton Symposium on Fostering and Financing Long-Term Investments in Prevention and Protection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2010), "Contemporary Insights on the Role of Motivation in Consumer Financial Decision Making," Presented at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors Forum on Consumer Research and Testing: Tools for Evidence-Based Policymaking in Financial Services, Washington, D.C.

Tannenbaum, David and Daniel M. Bartels (2010), "Choosing for the right reasons: Value-driven reasoning in consumer choice," Presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, Florida.

  -- Also presented at the 2010 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, Missouri.

Bartels, Daniel M., Kerry F. Milch, and Oleg Urminsky (2010), "Understanding the 'Self' in Self-Control: The Effects of Connectedness to Future Self on Far-Sightedness," Presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, Florida.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Oleg Urminsky (2010), "Impatience as Intertemporal Egoism," Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2010, July), "Moral Flexibility in Judgment and Decision Making," Presented at the International Legal Ethics Conference, Stanford, California.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Oleg Urminsky (2010), "How the Perceived (Dis)continuity of Identity Underlies Intertemporal Choice," Presented at the Consumer Financial Decision Making Conference, Boulder, Colorado.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Oleg Urminsky (2010), "Connectedness to the Future Self and Intertemporal Choice," Presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Burns, Zachary C., Daniel M. Bartels, and Eugene M. Caruso (2010), "It's the Thought that Will Count: Future Behavior is Seen as More Intentional than Past Behavior," Presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  -- Also presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, Massachusetts.

Li, Ye, Daniel M. Bartels, and George Wu (2009), "A Pairwise Contrast Model of Intuitive Probabilistic Inference," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, Massachusetts.

Bartels, Daniel M., Oleg Urminsky, and Lance J. Rips (2009), "How the Perceived (Dis)continuity of Identity Affects Intertemporal Choice," Presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  -- Also presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology, San Diego, California.

Bartels, Daniel M., Oleg Urminsky, and Lance J. Rips (2009), "Psychological Connectedness and Temporal Discounting of Consumption Experiences," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology, San Diego, California.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Lance J. Rips (2008), "Psychological Connectedness and Temporal Discounting," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois.

Caruso, Eugene M. and Daniel M. Bartels (2008), "When Facing a Moral Dilemma is Worse than Having Faced One," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois.

Goodwin, Geoffrey P. and Daniel M. Bartels (2008), "Two Routes to Inferring that Others Share your Moral and Nonmoral Beliefs: Egocentric Projection and the Perceived Objectivity of Belief," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, Illinois.

Day, Samuel B. and Daniel M. Bartels (2008), "Event Representation, Similarity, and Preference in Temporal Context," Presented at the meeting of the Association for Consumer Research, San Francisco, California.

  -- Also presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, California.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2007), "Accounting for the Flexibility of Moral Value-Driven Judgment," Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, Tennessee.

Bartels, Daniel M. and Will M. Bennis (2006), "Deontology and Consequentialism in Morally-Motivated Decision Making," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.

Iliev, Rumen, Daniel M. Bartels, Sonya Sachdeva, and Douglas L. Medin (2006), "Cognitive Processing of Morally Relevant Tasks," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.

Day, Samuel B. and Daniel M. Bartels (2006, July), "Representation across Time: Generalizing Temporal Effects on Perceived Similarity," Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Day, Samuel B. and Daniel M. Bartels (2005), "The Effects of Prior Use on Preference," Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.

  -- Also presented at the 2005 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada.

Hastie, Reid and Daniel M. Bartels (2004), "How Neuroscientists Should Study Risky Decision Making," Presented at the National Institute on Drug Abuse symposium: "Drug Abuse: A Workshop on Behavioral and Economic Research", Bethesda, Maryland.

Day, Samuel B. and Daniel M. Bartels (2004), "Temporal Distance, Event Representation, and Similarity," Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Bartels, Daniel M. (2003), "Proportion Dominance in Joint and Separate Evaluation," Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, Canada.


Service

Ad hoc reviewer

Journal of Consumer Research; Journal of Marketing Research; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Psychological Science; Journal of Experimental Psychology; General; Cognition; Management Science; Cognitive Science; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience; Emotion; Acta Psychologica; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Judgment and Decision Making; Journal of Applied Social Psychology


Committees

Ph.D. Program Committee

Recruiting Committee

Behavioral Lab Committee


Teaching

Behavioral Economics and Decision Making

Daytime MBA
Executive MBA
Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA


Affiliations

Association for Consumer Research

Association for Psychological Science

Cognitive Science Society

Society for Consumer Psychology

Society for Judgment and Decision Making