Events

Decision Fish supports events and educational engagement around financial planning, decision-making and behavioral economics. We currently co-host the Behavioral Economics-NYC meetup with the Borough of Manhattan Community College in addition to our financial wellness workshops.

Our speakers have included spectacular researchers, practitioners and authors such as:

  • Dolly Chugh (NYU, author of The Person You Mean to Be, A More Just Future),
  • Annie Duke (author of Thinking in Bets, How to Decide),
  • Jeff Kreisler (co-author with Dan Ariely of Dollars and Sense),
  • Pamela Pavliscak (author of Emotionally Intelligent Design),
  • Dan Pink (author of WhenDrive and much more), and
  • Elke Weber (Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University)

Join the Meetup group and to get on the list for upcoming events. Or if you have a good topic, find out how to speak at our event!

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Upcoming

Stay tuned for information about our upcoming Movie Night event.

Past Events

Facebook Live Videos of in-person events and Zoom Recordings of remote events are available where noted. We are in the process of creating a non-Facebook repository for those who do not use that platform and wish to view earlier recordings.

5/25/2022 Is There a Simple Formula for Understanding and Improving Motivation? with Kenn Barron

04/13/2022 Understanding behavioral finance through storytelling with Joel Franks

03/03/2022 What to Do About Diversity Fatigue with Heather Caruso

02/02/2022 Better Decision Making Through Randomness with Chris Butler

01/04/2022 Misunderstanding, Bias, and the Introspection Illusion with Emily Pronin

11/2/2021 How Can Behavioral Science Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? with Crystal C. Hall

06/23/2021 How your Biology Impacts your Investment Decisions with Michael Falk

05/27/2021 Design for Cognitive Bias with David Dylan Thomas (RSVP opening soon)

04/27/2021  Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice with Dan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Seth, Columbia University

03/30/2021 Positive money – applying psychology to individual finances with Kim Stephenson, Personal Financial Advisor, Stephenson Consulting
Zoom Video

02/24/2021 Stoicism: a way of life for the 21st century with Massio Pigliucci, Professor, CUNY City College
Zoom Video

01/14/2021 Fundamental Problems in Behavioral Economics with Mario Rizzo, Professor, NYU Department of Economics, co-director of the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU Law School
Zoom Video

12/08/2020 Designing Engaging Health Behavior Change Interventions with Amy Bucher, Ph.D. Zoom Video

11/17/2020 Nudge 2.0: Behavioral Economics or Libertarian Paternalism? with Jamie Kelly, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College
Zoom Video

10/20/2020 Ideas42 Speaks about “Behavioral Science for Student Success at CUNY” with Senior associates Rebecca Nissan and Scott Lensing
Zoom Video

04/30/2020 Jeff Kreisler: BMCC Guest Lecture on Dollars and Sense

04/17/2020 Brief Survey of Behavioral Finance with Brett Whysel, BMCC Lecturer, CEO Founder of Decision Fish LLC
Zoom Video

04/17/2020 Pushing the Forecasting Frontier: From Geopolitics to Clinical Trials with Regina Joseph and Pavel Atanasov, Co-Founders of Pytho LLC
Zoom Video

02/19/2019 Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought with Professor Barbara Tversky, Columbia/Stanford
Facebook Live Video

12/5/2019 Dollars and Sense with Jeff Kreisler

11/14/2019 Effective Behavior Change with Spencer Greenberg

10/12/2019 Competing Pressures: Designing for Behavior Change with Matt Walleart, Chief Behavioral Officer, Clover Health

09/12/2019 The Unexpected Effects of Nudging : When BE Backfires with Ross O’Hara, Behavioral Researcher, Persistence Plus
Facebook Live Video

08/21/2019 A BE Movie under the stars – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

06/05/2019 Join me at MIND GAMES: A Radical Take on Human Performance and Decision Making with Denise Shull, CEO and Lead Performance Coach, The ReThink Group

05/08/2019 On the Psychology of Communication, with John Gultig, Lead Facilitator, Pitch Communications
Facebook Live Video

04/06/2019 The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing with Author Dan Pink

03/13/2019 Women’s World Banking: India with Mansi Gupta

02/28/2019 The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias with Dolly Chugh, Associate Professor, New York University Stern School of Business, Management and Organizations Department

01/15/2019 Behavioral Science Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef with John Pickering, Behavioral Scientist, Behaviour Innovation
Facebook Live Video

12/18/2018 Dollars and Sense for Donors with Howard Levy, Principal, Red Rooster Group

11/14/2018 Money Psychology: We’ve All Got Issues with Sarah Newcomb, Senior Behavioral Scientist, Morningstar
Facebook Live Video

10/24/2018 Crowdsourcing Stormwater Solutions: Design Challenge 2018 with The Nature Conservancy
Facebook Live Video Part 1, Facebook Live Video Part 2

08/16/2018 Dr. Strangelove: Conspiracy theories, game theory, confirmation bias & rationality at the movies! Central Park, New York, NY

06/12/2018 Making Smart Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts with Annie Duke, Author and World Poker Champion
Facebook Live Video Part 1, Facebook Live Video Part 2

05/09/2018 Applications of Behavioral Science: Reducing Arrests in NYC with Teis Jorgensen, Behavioral Economist, Ideas42

04/19/2018 Noise in Decisionmaking Felix Rossman, Behavioral Economist, AIG
Facebook Live Video

03/28/2018 Financial Wellness Workshop with Brett and Noreen Whysel of Decision Fish

03/12/2018 Learn to Use Bundling to Overcome Scarcity and Time Pressure with Michael Barberra, Marketing Strategist
Facebook Live Video

02/15/2018 Financial Wellness Workshop with Brett and Noreen Whysel of Decision Fish

02/01/2018 Behavioral Design @ Betterment: Help clients help themselves with Dan Egan, Managing Director of Behavioral Finance and Investing, Betterment
Facebook Live Video

01/09/2018 Use Evidence Based Design to be More Objective! with Michelle Gilmore, Design Director, Neo
Slides

12/08/2017 Behavioral Challenges Associated with Financial Planning with Noal Goldfarb and Adam Dubov Financial Advisors of National Financial Network
Facebook Live Video

11/012017 Learn how to Apply Behavioral Finance to the Markets with Rick Bensignor, President, Intheknowtrader.com

09/27/2017 · 6:30 PM Giving the Future a Chance: Making decisions today based on future consequences with Dr. Elke U. Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Facebook Lice Video Slides

08/08/2017 Online/In Person Interview of Ken Spero, CEO, Ed Leadership Sims
Facebook Live Video

0717/2017 The B.E. of GREED — Watch & Discuss Wall Street (the Movie) in Bryant Park

06/06/2017 Behavioral Economics of Retirement: Save, Risk or Work More Tomorrow? with Ethan Pew, Professor, Stony Brook University, School of Business, Marketing Department
Facebook Live Video

05/25/2017 Cross-cultural Behavioral Economics– from Sydney Australia to Iraqi Kurdistan with Kris White, Anthropologist/Consultant
Facabook Live Video Part 1, Facebook Live Video Part 2

04/11/2017 Behavioral Economics and Agile with Jane Kenyon, Consultant and Jason Yip of Spotify
Facebook Live Video

03/08/2017 Bias in Performance Management: What We Don’t Know & What We Can Do About It with Noel Boyland, Advisory Lead, LRN
Facebook Live Video Part 1, Facebook Live Video Part 2

02/21/2017 Conscious Compensation and Ethical Behavior with Dan Ariely co-hosted with LRN

01/31/2017 Let’s Make an Impact with Behavioral Economics! Brett and Noreen Whysel, Co-Founders Decision Fish
Facebook Live Video, Output/Deliverables

12/13/2016 How Behavioral Research can Promote Ethical Outcomes with Jeremy Willinger, Communications Director, Ethical Systems (discussion)

09/28/2016 Welcome to BE-NYC! Let’s meet for extended-happy hour drinks! with hosts Brett and Noreen Whysel and Holly Lang