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Barbara Mellers
American psychologist
Barbara Ann Mellers is the I. George Heyman University Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her research focuses on decision processes.
In 2017, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government awarded Mellers the Thomas C. Schelling Award in recognition of "remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy."[2]
She worked with the Nobel Prize winning economist and psychologist, Daniel Kahneman to analyze the research of Matthew Killingsworth to help come to a consensus on how money and wealth influences happiness.[3]