Neil Bearden

Neil Bearden was an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. He holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to INSEAD, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Arizona in Management and Systems and Industrial Engineering, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University, where he did research in neuroeconomics.

Neil’s primary research is on human judgment and decision making. He is particularly interested in how people represent and assess uncertainty, the interplay of memory and judgment, and how beliefs and expectations influence perception. He is also doing work in epistemology and philosophy of science, especially as it relates to empirical business research.

At INSEAD, Neil taught Management Decision Making (MBA, EMBA); Uncertainty, Data and Judgment (MBA); and PhD courses on Experimental Design, Behavioural Decision Making, and Behavioural Economics. In addition, he taught the Psychology of Decision Making in a number of executive programmes in Asia and the Middle East.

Neil’s research has been published in a number of academic journals, including Management Science, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Neil developed and ran the INSEAD Futures Exchange, an electronic prediction market that is used in courses at INSEAD and Wharton.

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