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American academic
David G. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Biography
Rand grew up in
Ithaca, New York , where his father is a professor at
Cornell University . As a teenager he was in several rock bands,
[1] including solo project
Robot Goes Here .
He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell in
computational biology in 2004, then worked for two years at
Gene Network Sciences .
[1]
[2] He then went to Harvard, where he earned a PhD in systems biology in 2009. After 4 years of post-doctoral studies at Harvard, in 2013 Rand began an assistant professorship at
Yale University in psychology, economics, management. In 2017 he was appointed a tenure-track associate professor in psychology at Yale. In 2018 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Yale, and then moved to MIT as a tenured associate professor.
[2]
In January 2012, Rand was named to
Wired Magazine 's Smart List 2012 as one of "50 people who will change the world".
[3]
Publications
Scientific
Dreber, A; Rand, DG; Fudenberg, D; Nowak, MA (20 March 2008).
"Winners don't punish" . Nature . 452 (7185): 348–51.
Bibcode :
2008Natur.452..348D .
doi :
10.1038/nature06723 .
PMC
2292414 .
PMID
18354481 .
Rand, DG; Dreber, A; Ellingsen, T; Fudenberg, D; Nowak, MA (4 September 2009).
"Positive interactions promote public cooperation" . Science . 325 (5945): 1272–5.
Bibcode :
2009Sci...325.1272R .
doi :
10.1126/science.1177418 .
PMC
2875121 .
PMID
19729661 .
Rand, DG; Pfeiffer, T; Dreber, A; Sheketoff, RW; Wernerfelt, NC; Benkler, Y (14 April 2009).
"Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 106 (15): 6187–91.
Bibcode :
2009PNAS..106.6187R .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.0811552106 .
PMC
2664153 .
PMID
19332775 .
Beale, N; Rand, DG;
Battey, H ; Croxson, K; May, RM; Nowak, MA (2 August 2011).
"Individual versus systemic risk and the Regulator's Dilemma" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 108 (31): 12647–52.
Bibcode :
2011PNAS..10812647B .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1105882108 .
PMC
3150885 .
PMID
21768387 .
Rand, DG; Arbesman, S; Christakis, NA (29 November 2011).
"Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 108 (48): 19193–8.
Bibcode :
2011PNAS..10819193R .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1108243108 .
PMC
3228461 .
PMID
22084103 .
Shenhav, A; Rand, DG; Greene, JD (August 2012). "Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God". Journal of Experimental Psychology. General . 141 (3): 423–8.
doi :
10.1037/a0025391 .
PMID
21928924 .
Fudenberg, Drew; Rand, David G; Dreber, Anna (April 2012). "Slow to Anger and Fast to Forgive: Cooperation in an Uncertain World". American Economic Review . 102 (2): 720–749.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.362.1558 .
doi :
10.1257/aer.102.2.720 .
S2CID
14247829 .
Author's manuscript at Harvard repository
Rand, DG; Greene, JD; Nowak, MA (20 September 2012). "Spontaneous giving and calculated greed". Nature . 489 (7416): 427–30.
Bibcode :
2012Natur.489..427R .
doi :
10.1038/nature11467 .
PMID
22996558 .
S2CID
4326080 .
Rand, DG; Epstein, ZG (2014).
"Risking your life without a second thought: intuitive decision-making and extreme altruism" . PLOS ONE . 9 (10): e109687.
Bibcode :
2014PLoSO...9j9687R .
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0109687 .
PMC
4198114 .
PMID
25333876 .
Popular media
Notes and references
External links
International National Academics