Daniel Read

Who they are

Daniel Read is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, in the Behavioural Sciences Group. His research covers judgment and decision making, including intertemporal choice, choice under uncertainty and risk, and heuristics and biases, and he also works in philosophical psychology.

Before Warwick he held posts at Leeds University Business School, the London School of Economics, where he was a Reader, and Durham Business School, where he was a Professor, with visiting positions at INSEAD, Yale School of Management and Rotterdam Business School. He has consulted for the UK government and the Financial Services Authority on behavioural economics, and is a former associate editor of Management Science and a former editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology.

Read is first author of the 1999 paper, with George Loewenstein and Matthew Rabin.

Key papers

Read, D., Loewenstein, G., & Rabin, M. (1999). Choice bracketing. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 19(1 to 3), 171 to 197.

Key ideas

Choices made in isolation are bracketed narrowly and choices made together are bracketed broadly. The vocabulary maps onto Kahneman and Lovallo's narrow and broad framing, and Rabin and Weizsäcker's 2009 experiments test the narrow case.

---