Date: April 20th, 2023 (12:30 pm – 1:30 pm)

Speaker: Joshua Schwartzstein

Paper Title: “Model Persuasion: Theory and Experimental Evidence”

Abstract: To understand new information, we exchange models or interpretations with others. This talk provides a framework for thinking about such social exchanges of models and presents recent experimental results that test key assumptions and predictions of the framework.

Bio: Joshua Schwartzstein is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. His research incorporates psychologically realistic assumptions about human cognition into formal economic models and uses these models to re-think questions in domains ranging from persuasion to health-care markets.