Education
PhD, Cognitive Psychology, UCLA, 2002
MA, Cognitive Psychology , UCLA, 1998
BS, Philosophy & Cognitive Science, UCLA, 1995
Major Areas of Interest
- Judgment & Decision Making
- Attribute evaluations (e.g., evaluations of price and other consumer-product attributes, food, body size)
- Consumer fraud and protection
Representative Sample of Publications
Choplin, J. M. (2010). I Am “Fatter” Than She Is: Language-Expressible
Body-Size Comparisons Bias Judgments of Body Size. Journal of Language
and Social Psychology.
Stark, D.P. & Choplin, J.M. (2010). A
cognitive and social psychological analysis of disclosure laws and call
for mortgage counseling to prevent predatory lending. Psychology, Public
Policy, & Law.
Stark, D.P. & Choplin, J.M. (2009). A
license to deceive: Enforcing contractual myths despite consumer
psychological realities. NYU Journal of Law & Business, 5, 617-744.