Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P.

SHAUN HARGREAVES HEAP is a graduate of Oxford and UC Berkeley. He is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia and has held positions at Concordia University and the University of Sydney. His current research concerns the social influences on decision making and in particular involves an experimental investigation of how group membership affects people's willingness to trust each other. He has published research in this area recently in the Economic Journal and in the American Economic Review. His other area of current research is on the influence and measurement of diversity in the media. (REV. 2009)