Kentaro Fujita (PhD, New York University, 2006) is a professor in the Department of Psychology. His research interests focus on why despite possessing remarkable intelligence and reasoning capacity people often make decisions and behave in ways that undermine their valued goals and objectives.





 

Melinda Ritchie

Department of Political Science

Melinda Ritchie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside. She was previously a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics for the 2019-2020 academic year and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University in 2015-2016.  

Mike DeKay (PhD, University of Colorado, 1994) is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. His research involves information distortion in risky and non-risky decisions, risk perception, the perceived fungibility of outcomes in repeated decisions, and applications in environmental and medical decision making.








 

Selin Malkoc (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006) is an associate professor of Marketing. Her research focuses on the area of consumer behavior. Specifically, her research examines how consumers make decisions where the outcomes are spread over time and how they perceive and consume their time. She has explored why consumers might show impatience despite their best intentions and proposed several mechanisms that can help consumers make better decisions for themselves. Dr. Malkoc also studies how consumers can best allocate their time between work and leisure to maximize their short and long-term happiness.



 

John Rehbeck (PhD, University of California, San Diego) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University. He joined the department in the fall of 2017. His research focuses on revealed preferences in theory and application. He is also is interested in experimental elicitation of preferences and econometrics. He has published his work in the scholarly journals Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, and Economics Letters.


 

Nicole Sintov (PhD, University of Southern California, 2011) is an assistant professor of Behavior, Decision Making and Sustainability. Her research focuses on how to advance psychological theory while producing insights that can be applied to benefit the environment and society. Broadly, she is interested in: (1) illuminating the psychological, social, and contextual factors that influence individual-level behavior pertaining to environmental resource consumption; (2) developing and evaluating interventions aimed at promoting sustainable behavior; and (3) investigating the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence intervention effectiveness.