Hengchen Dai, PhD│CHIBE Research Seminar

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• Hengchen Dai, PhD — Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making, UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Hengchen Dai, PhD is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and of Behavioral Decision Making at the Anderson School of Management. She also co-directs the UCLA Health-Anderson Nudge Unit, where she applies behavioral science insights to develop interventions aimed at enhancing clinical quality. In addition to her academic roles, Dai serves as a Senior Editor for Organization Science. Her research primarily focuses on self-control and motivation, employing field experiments and observational data. From an intrapersonal standpoint, she explores how individuals make decisions that balance long-term benefits and short-term gratification, with a particular focus on how fresh starts—moments that psychologically separate people from their past—affect self-control and goal motivation. From an interpersonal angle, she examines how the behaviors and judgments of others influence individual motivation. Her policy-oriented research designs and tests interventions based on behavioral science theories, aiming to understand their broader effects beyond immediate outcomes, including any unintended consequences, long-term impacts, and factors influencing scalability.

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