Anuj K Shah

Biographic Data

ID135298
NAMEAnuj K Shah
GIVEN NAMESAnuj K
FAMILY NAMEShah
SIGNATURESHAH A K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • An exercise in self-replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012)

    Open AccessAnuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Psychology2019Cited by: 7References: 10

  • Money in the Mental Lives of the Poor

    Anuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLESocial Cognition2018

    Recent research has studied how resource scarcity draws attention and creates cognitive load. As a result, scarcity improves some dimensions of cognitive function, while worsening others. Still, there remains a fundamental question: how does scarcity influence the content of cognition? In this article, we find that poor individuals (i.e., those facing monetary scarcity) see many everyday experiences through a different lens. Specifically, thought…

  • An opportunity for self-replication

    Open AccessAnuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Deciding Who Gets What, Fairly

    Open AccessFranklin Shaddy, Anuj K Shah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2018Cited by: 2References: 36

    Goods and services are often allocated to those who spend the most resources. In many cases, this results in allocation to people who spend the most money. But people can use a variety of other resources to acquire things (e.g., time, effort, social capital). Why might some resources seem fairer to use than others? In this research, we show that people believe resources systematically differ according to how well they signal preferences (e.g., mo…

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago

    Sara B Heller, Sara Heller et al.ARTICLEThe Quarterly Journal of Economics2017

    We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the nonprofit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009–2010 and 2013–2015. In the two studies participation in the program reduced total arrests during the int…

  • Scarcity Frames Value

    Open AccessAnuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2015

    Economic models of decision making assume that people have a stable way of thinking about value. In contrast, psychology has shown that people’s preferences are often malleable and influenced by normatively irrelevant contextual features. Whereas economics derives its predictions from the assumption that people navigate a world of scarce resources, recent psychological work has shown that people often do not attend to scarcity. In this article, w…

  • Consuming Experiential Categories

    Anuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2014References: 40

    How do we maximize enjoyment and minimize displeasure over a variety of events? Previous research has discussed how consumers might focus on savoring individual events or distribute appealing and unappealing events across time to maximize happiness. Building on this work, the current research shows that consumers track not just individual events but also “categories” of events. Consequently, a person who visits a modern art gallery, a classic art…

  • Some Consequences of Having Too Little

    Open AccessAnuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLEScience2012

    Poor Choices Two categories of reasons for why poor people make economically unsound choices, such as obtaining a payday loan at an extraordinarily high rate of interest, reflect, first, the environment: Poor people are more likely to be living in poor neighborhoods with higher rates of crime and lower rates of social services. Second, they reflect the individual: People are poor in part because of their own psychological dispositions toward impa…

  • Heuristics made easy: An effort-reduction framework

    Anuj K Shah, Anuj Shah et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2008Cited by: 34

    In this article, the authors propose a new framework for understanding and studying heuristics. The authors posit that heuristics primarily serve the purpose of reducing the effort associated with a task. As such, the authors propose that heuristics can be classified according to a small set of effort-reduction principles. The authors use this framework to build upon current models of heuristics, examine existing heuristics in terms of effort-red…