Rate My Professor Cristina Bicchieri

Cristina Bicchieri is the S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds appointments as Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Professor of Legal Studies in the Wharton School. Bicchieri serves as Director of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, and Director of the Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and her Laurea summa cum laude in Philosophy from the University of Milano.

Her research centers on judgment and decision making, with a special interest in social norms, decisions about fairness, trust, and cooperation, and how expectations affect behavior. She investigates the nature and evolution of social norms, methods for measuring norms, and strategies for social change, as well as the epistemic foundations of game theory. Bicchieri is the author of several influential books, including Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure and Change Social Norms (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Rationality and Coordination (Cambridge University Press, 1993; second edition 1997), and edited volumes such as The Logic of Strategy (Oxford University Press, 1999) and The Dynamics of Norms (Cambridge University Press, 1997). She has published more than 100 articles, with her work cited over 21,000 times on Google Scholar.

Bicchieri has received major awards and honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021) and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2021), the Pufendorf Medal (2015), Honorary Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge University (2016), and Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (2007). She has been a fellow at Harvard University, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, the London School of Economics on a Leverhulme Trust fellowship, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Jerusalem. As founder and director of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics (formerly Penn Social Norms Group), she consults for organizations such as UNICEF, the World Bank, the National Science Foundation, and various foundations on behavioral measurement and change projects.