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Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

Rheumatologist and Patient Mental Models for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Help Explain Low Treat-to-Target Rates

ACR Open Rheumatology
June 6, 2022
Betty Hsiao, Julie Downs, Mandy Lanyon, Susan J. Blalock, Jeffrey R. Curtis, Leslie R. Harrold, William Benjamin Nowell, Carole Wiedmeyer, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Liana Fraenkel

PrEP Product Acceptability and Dual Process Decision-Making Among Men Who Have Sex with Men

Current HIV/AIDS Reports
April 16, 2020
Jose A. Bauermeister, Julie S. Downs, Douglas S. Krakower

Hospital-Based Physicians’ Intubation Decisions And Associated Mental Models When Managing A Critically And Terminally Ill Older Patient.

Medical Decision-Making
April 27, 2018
Shannon Haliko, MD; Julie S. Downs, PhD; Deepika Mohan MD, MPH; Robert M. Arnold, MD; Amber E Barnato, MD, MPH

Video Intervention to Increase Perceived Self-Efficacy for Condom Use in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Female Adolescents.

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
November 7, 2017
Julie S.Downs, PhD; Amie M. Ashcraft, PhD, MPH; Pamela J. Murray, MD, MHP; Elise D. Berlan, MD; Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD; Joan Eichner, MPA, MPH; Baruch Fischhoff, PhD; Janie A. Leary, PhD, MPH; Robert B. McCall, PhD; Elizabeth Miller, MD; Jennifer Salaway, PhD; Janell Smith-Jones, PhD; Gina S. Sucato, MD, MPH

Advance Ordering for Healthier Eating? Field Experiments on the Relationship Between the Meal Order–Consumption Time Delay and Meal Content

Journal of Marketing Research
June 28, 2017
Eric M. VanEpps, MS, PhD; Julie S. Downs, PhD; and George Loewenstein, PhD

Calorie Label Formats: Using Numeric and Traffic Light Calorie Labels to Reduce Lunch Calories

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
March 1, 2015
Eric M. VanEpps, Ph.D.; Julie S. Downs, Ph.D.; George F. Loewenstein, Ph.D.

Does “Healthy” Fast Food Exist? The Gap Between Perceptions and Behavior

Journal of Adolescent Health
October 1, 2013
Julie S. Downs, Ph.D.

Supplementing Menu Labeling with Calorie Recommendations to Test for Facilitation Effects

American Journal of Public Health
September 1, 2013
Julie S. Downs, Ph.D.; Jessica Wisdom, Ph.D.; Brian Wansink, Ph.D.; George F. Loewenstein, Ph.D.

Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices

American Economic Review
May 2, 2009
Julie Downs, Phd; George Loewenstein, PhD; Jessica Wisdom.