Publications

Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?

Benartzi, S., Beshears, J., Milkman, K. L., Sunstein, C. R., Thaler, R. H., Shankar, M., … Galing, S. (2017) Psychological Science, 28(8), 1041–1055

The White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team: Lessons Learned from Year One.

Congdon, William J. & Shankar, M. (2016) Behavioral Science and Policy Association Journal, 2. 77-88

Dissociating Motivation from Reward in Human Striatal Activity.

Miller, E. M., Shankar, M., Knutson, B., & McClure, S. M. (2014) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(5). 1075-1084

Decision Neuroscience

Shankar, M., McClure, S.M. (2013) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (K.N. Ochsner and S.M. Kosslyn, Ed.), Oxford University Press: New York, NY

An expectations-based approach to explaining the crossmodal influence of color on orthonasal olfactory identification: The influence of the degree of discrepancy

Shankar, M., Simons, C., Shiv, B., McClure, S., Levitan, C., and Spence, C. (2010) Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72. 1981-1993

Sound bites: Auditory contributions to the perception and consumption of food and drink

Spence, C., Shankar, M. U., & Blumenthal, H. (2012) In Art and the Senses (F. Bacci & D. Mecher, Eds.), Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK

“An expectations-based approach to explaining the crossmodal influence of color on orthonasal olfactory identification: The influence of the degree of discrepancy”

Shankar, M., Simons, C., Shiv, B., McClure, S., Levitan, C., and Spence, C. (2010). . Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72. 1981-1993.

Grape Expectations: The role of cognitive influences in color-flavor interactions

ShanNar, M., Levitan, C., and Spence, C. (2009) Consciousness and Cognition, 19. 380-390.

The influence of color and label information on flavor perception

Shankar, M., Levitan, C., Prescott, J., and Spence, C. (2009) Chemosensory Perception, 2. 53–58.

Do Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Diagnose Causal Relations in the Absence of a Direct Reward?

Edwards, B. J., Rottman, B. M., Shankar, M., Betzler, R., Chituc, V., Rodriguez, R., Silva, L., Wibecan, L., Widness, J., Santos, L. R. (2014). PLoS ONE 9(2): e88595. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088595 

Essentialism in the absence of language? Evidence from rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Phillips, W., Shankar, M., & Santos, L. R. (2010). Developmental Science, 13(4), F1-F7.