Danny Oppenheimer is a professor at Carnegie Mellon jointly appointed in Psychology and Decision Sciences who studies judgment, decision making, metacognition, learning, and how the use of technology changes how people think. He applies his findings to a diverse array of domains, such as charitable giving, consumer behavior, education, electoral outcomes, and how to trick students into buying him ice cream. He is the author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and books including "Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System that shouldn't work at all works so well" and "Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction". After receiving his PhD in psychology at Stanford, he has served on the faculty at Princeton, UCLA, and for the past 8 years Carnegie Mellon. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, and was the winner of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for Science Humor for research that "makes you laugh and makes you think" for his paper "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly". This fall, he will be teaching two courses: "Introduction to Psychology" and "Human Intelligence and Human Stupidity"
