Speaker Bio
Philip Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and assistant professor of marketing at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. He is also an associate member of the university’s Institute of Cognitive Science
He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2001, and received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 2010. He has undertaken postdoctoral training as a research assistant and lecturer at the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, and then as a research scholar at the center for research on consumer financial decision-making at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado.
His research interests focus on consumer behavior and he has published widely on causal reasoning, probability judgment, financial decision-making and moral judgment. Alongside articles in scholarly publications including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Behavior, Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Dr. Fernbach’s work has also received print, broadcast and digital media coverage in the Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, BBC, Discovery Channel, and many other outlets. He is the co-author of “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone,” published in March 2017 by Riverhead Books.
Dr. Fernbach’s work has received myriad honors, awards and research grants and he is frequently called upon to present seminars at prestigious universities in the United States and beyond, as well as being invited to speak at key international conferences
He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two children.
He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2001, and received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 2010. He has undertaken postdoctoral training as a research assistant and lecturer at the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, and then as a research scholar at the center for research on consumer financial decision-making at Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado.
His research interests focus on consumer behavior and he has published widely on causal reasoning, probability judgment, financial decision-making and moral judgment. Alongside articles in scholarly publications including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Behavior, Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Dr. Fernbach’s work has also received print, broadcast and digital media coverage in the Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, BBC, Discovery Channel, and many other outlets. He is the co-author of “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone,” published in March 2017 by Riverhead Books.
Dr. Fernbach’s work has received myriad honors, awards and research grants and he is frequently called upon to present seminars at prestigious universities in the United States and beyond, as well as being invited to speak at key international conferences
He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two children.
Full Name
Dr. Philip Fernbach
