Current PhD Candidates
Full Name: Xianchi DAI
Country: China
Field of specialization: Marketing
Year of entry: 2003
Tel: +33 1 6072 4334
E-mail: xianchi.dai@insead.edu
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Research Interests
Judgment and Decision Making; Motivation; Self Control; Consumer Behavior

Work in Progress
Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and Miguel Brendl. Strategic Motivation Maintenance. Manuscript in preparation

Dai, Xianchi, Miguel Brendl and Dan Ariely. Do We Construct One Preference or Several. Working Paper

Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and Miguel Brendl. The Costs and Benefits of Valuing Things. Work in progress

Brendl, Miguel, Xianchi Dai and Dan Ariely. Motivational versus Affective Mechanisms of Preference Learning. Work in progress

Dai, Xianchi and Klaus Wertenbroch. Consumer Expectation in Intertemporal Choices. Manuscript in preparation

Dai, Xianchi and Ayelet Fishbach. History Matters: When Waiting Increases Patience in Intertemporal Choice. Manuscript in preparation


Selected Publications
Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch, and C. Miguel Brendl (2008). The Value Heuristic in Judgments of Relative Frequency. Psychological Science (Winner, de Finetti Award for the best PhD student paper at the European Association for Decision Making; Honorable Mention, Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition)


Selected Conference Presentations
Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch, and C. Miguel Brendl, "The Value Heuristic," The 11st Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM), April 2008, San Diego, USA

Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and C. Miguel Brendl, "The Value Heuristic," Association for Consumer Research North American Conference, October 2007, Memphis, TN.

Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and C. Miguel Brendl, "Strategic Motivation Maintenance," Association for Consumer Research North American Conference, October 2007, Memphis,TN.

Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and C. Miguel Brendl, "The Value Heuristic," Subjective Probability,Utility,and Decision Making Biennial Conference, August 2007, Warsaw, Poland.

Dai, Xianchi, Klaus Wertenbroch and C. Miguel Brendl, "The Value Heuristic," Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference, November 2006, Houston, USA.

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