Scholar
Gaël Le Mens
Google Scholar ID: uTAgm_EAAAAJ
Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,057
H-index
17
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
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Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His research has been published in top scientific journals like Psychological Review (x3), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA (PNAS, x4), Psychological Science (x2), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Organization Science (x2), Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Sociological Science, American Journal of Political Science, and Political Analysis. Popular accounts of his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Times (London), WSJ.com, FT.com, USA Today, ABCNews.com, Focus, and other print and online periodicals.
Research Experience
- Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and an Affiliated Professor at Barcelona School of Economics and UPF-BSM. His current applied work analyzes how social media users learn from online feedback, aiming to understand phenomena such as between-group opinion polarization and the extremization of opinion expression.
Background
- Studies how people, organizations, and machines learn. Several of his papers explain how learning agents might develop and maintain inaccurate beliefs because they rely on the biased samples of information they obtain from their experiences. Another line of research involves the influence of concepts and categories on inference and valuation.
Miscellany
- ICREA Acadèmia Awardee (2023-2027).
