MEYER-CHABRIS LAB

The interdisciplinary Meyer-Chabris lab (July 2017-) uses a range of methods - primarily experimental, but also other quantitative and qualitative methods - to study judgment and decision-making related to research and health care. Current areas of interest include comparative effectiveness of different approaches to informed consent; information avoidance (especially in genetic/genomic and health-related contexts); attitudes to research and other learning activities - including experimentation, biobank research, research comparing standards of care, and "sensitive" secondary research; the effects of returning a variety of genetic and genomic information to patients and participants; attitudes towards and the effects of "nudges"; and many aspects of IRB quality, including risk-benefit analysis.