Shane Frederick

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Shane Frederick (born 1968) is the Sarofim Family Career Development Professor of Management Science at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the creator of the "Cognitive Reflection Test", or CRT, a form of intelligence test that builds on some aspects of the prospect theory developed by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s.

He is considered to be an authority on decision-making and intertemporal choice, time preferences and discount functions, and has authored papers with, among others, George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, emeritus of Princeton University.

Shane Frederick was born in Park Falls, WI, and went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in Zoology, from Simon Fraser University with an M.S. in Resource Management, and from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences. He currently resides in Somerville, MA.

[edit] Selected publications

• Representativeness revisited: Attribute substitution in intuitive judgment (with D. Kahneman))
• Time discounting and time preference: a critical review (with T. O'Donoghue)
• On The Ball: Cognitive Reflection and Decision-Making

[edit] External links

• Would You Take the Bird in the Hand, or a 75% Chance at Two in the Bush?, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2006
• Holiday Discounts May Not Be Enough, Boston Globe, Dec. 11, 2007
• Shane Frederick's MIT Home Page

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