Carey Morewedge
Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Professor, Marketing
Department Chair, Marketing
Carey K. Morewedge is a Professor of Marketing, Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and Chair of the Marketing Department at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Carey uses experiments to understand the psychology of consumer decision making. His research explores biased ways people think about the value of experiences, money, and new technologies such as digital goods and artificial intelligence.
Carey has received more than $2.4 million in external research funding and awards for his research and teaching, including the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Best Paper award from the Journal of Consumer Research, recognition as a MSI Scholar, an Idea of the Year from The New York Times, inclusion in Poets and Quant’s Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors, and Favorite Elective Professor from the Full Time MBA Class of 2019 at Boston University.
A prolific scholar, Carey has published in academic journals including Science, PNAS, Nature Medicine, Nature Human Behavior, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Psychological Science . Carey’s popular writing has appeared in media outlets including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review, and he has been interviewed on radio and television, including the BBC, NPR, and ABC World News Tonight.
Carey received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Before joining Boston University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Social and Decision Sciences and Marketing departments. He has also been a visiting Fellow of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Education
PhD, Harvard University, 2006
BA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000
Selected Research Presentations
Morewedge, C. Psychological and Legal Ownership of Patient Medical Data, Department of Marketing, Seminar, Duke University, 2025
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical artificial intelligence, Mobile and Electronic Health ARC Seminar, Boston University Medical Center, 2025
Morewedge, C. Psychological and Legal Ownership of Patient Medical Data, Winter Judgment and Decision Making, Snowbird, UT, 2025
Morewedge, C. Large Language Models Improve Hypothesis Generation by Reducing Cognitive Effort, Winter Judgment and Decision Making, Snowbird, UT, 2025
Morewedge, C. People see more of their biases in algorithms, 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Business Analytics, Yale University, 2024
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical artificial intelligence, Mobile & Electronic Health Affinity Research Collaborative Lighting Talks, Boston University Medical Center, 2024
Morewedge, C. Large Language Models Improve Hypothesis Generation by Reducing Cognitive Effort, Psychology of Technology Institute, annual conference, Boston University, 2024
Morewedge, C. Why Context Influences Choice More than Willingness to Pay, Association for Consumer Research, Paris, France, 2024
Morewedge, C. Algorithm Acceptance: Theories, Prediction Market, and Meta-Analysis, Association for Consumer Research, Paris, France, 2024
Morewedge, C. Marketing and Artificial Intelligence, Insights Association North America, Boston University, 2024
Morewedge, C. People see more of their biases in algorithms, Marketing Seminar, Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, 2024
Morewedge, C. People see more of their biases in algorithms, Behavioral Economics Seminar, Chicago Booth, University of Chicago, 2024
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical artificial intelligence, Massry School of Business Colloqium, University of Albany, 2024
Morewedge, C. Evolution of Consumption, Gen AI and Digital Marketing, Boston, MA, 2024
Morewedge, C. When and why people distrust AI – algorithm aversion or self-serving bias?, University of Oregon Marketing Seminar, Eugene, Oregon, 2024
Morewedge, C. When people distrust algorithms: Algorithm aversion or self-serving bias?, Stanford Marketing Seminar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2024
MacDonald, T. , Morewedge, C. Access Preferred: Consumption Without Identity Costs, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, San Francisco, 2023
Morewedge, C. People better see their biases in algorithms, Psychology of Technology, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
Morewedge, C. , Pham, M. , Krishna, A. , Blanchard, S. Figuring out my Researcher Identity, Association for Consumer Research, Doctoral Sympoisum, Seattle, WA, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI: Algorithm aversion or self-serving bias?, Marketing, Ivy College of Business, University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa (virutal), 2023
Morewedge, C. Rise of AI in Healthcare, Africa Health Research Organization (AHRO), Glasgow, Scotland (virtual), 2023
Morewedge, C. When Do People Trust AI? Algorithm Adoption and Human Egotism, 2023 Yale Customer Insights Conference, Yale School of Management, New Haven CT, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI: Algorithm adoption and self-enhancement, School of Management & Economics Seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI: Algorithm adoption or self-enhancement, Marketing Seminar, Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI: algorithm aversion or human egotism?, Eller Behavioral Decision Making Think Tank, University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI, AI and Health Working Group, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD / Virtual, 2023
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to use medical AI: Algorithm aversion or biased self-evaluation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Management and Marketing, Hong Kong, China, 2023
Morewedge, C. Resistance to medical artificial intelligence: Aversion to algorithms or positively biased evaluation of humans?, Department of Marketing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2023
Morewedge, C. When are people threatened by AI?, Digital Business Institute Data Blitz, Boston, MA, 2022
Mishra, N. , Morewedge, C. Disclosing to online relations: An evaluative context model, Association for Consumer Research, Denver, CO, 2022
Bhardi, F. , Garcia-Rada, X. , Morewedge, C. , Whitley, S. Designing qualitative interviews for experimental studies, Association for Consumer Research, Denver, CO, 2022
Morewedge, C. Research Leadership: Developing a Program of Research that Changes the Field, Association for Consumer Research, Denver, Colorado, 2022
Morewedge, C. Doing research with impact, Association for Consumer Research, Doctoral Symposium, Denver, CO, 2022
Morewedge, C. Resistance to medical artificial intelligence: Aversion to algorithms or positively biased evaluation of humans?, China Marketing International Conference, Wuhan, China, 2022
Morewedge, C. User-Generated Content on Social Media: Value from Goals, Department of Marketing, Ivey Business School, London, Ontario, Canada, 2022
Morewedge, C. Consumer Utilization of (Medical) Artificial Intelligence, Executive Roundtable, Ivey Business School, London, Ontario, Canada, 2022
Morewedge, C. Psychological Ownership, Society for Consumer Psychology, Virtual, 2022
Morewedge, C. Training Can Improve Decision Making, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, 2022
Morewedge, C. Reluctance to Utilize Medical Artificial Intelligence, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School, 2022