Barbara Mellers
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Barbara A. Mellers | |
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Thesis | Equity judgment: A revision of Aristotelian views (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael H. Birnbaum |
Barbara Ann Mellers is the I. George Heyman University Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her research focuses on decision processes.
In 2017, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government awarded Mellers the Thomas C. Schelling Award in recognition of "remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy."[2]
She worked with the Nobel Prize-winning economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman to analyze the research of Matthew Killingsworth to help come to a consensus on how money and wealth influences happiness.[3]
Mellers earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. She went on to do graduate work in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning an M.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981.[4]
