Knowledge@Wharton: Give us a brief overview of your research.
Gideon Nave: I came to Wharton from a neuroscience department, and my work is mostly focused on the biological basis of how people make decisions. We all know that the way we make decisions is influenced by our biological state. Things like hunger, sleep deprivation and stress influence the process of decision-making, and I’m trying to study this in a rigorous way, using lab experiments and some biological data.
