Anne-Laure SELLIER

Anne-Laure Sellier is the Cartier-Chaired Professor of Behavioral Sciences at HEC Paris. Anne-Laure completed her initial training in business at the HEC School of Management (France), followed by a public administration Master at the Bocconi University (Italy), and an MBA from Warwick University (England). She then worked in the pharmaceutical industry, before undertaking a Ph.D. in management at INSEAD (France). Prior to joining HEC Paris, Anne-Laure was a faculty member at the London Business School in England, and at the Stern Business School of New York University, in the USA. She also taught at the Columbia Business School (USA).

At HEC Paris, Anne-Laure develops her Cartier chair activities focused on research and gathering the School's community around current key questions for business and society. She is also a member of the operational committee of Hi! Paris, the Center for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Business and Society.  There, she creates events allowing a broad community of researchers and corporate sponsors to meet and discuss societal implications of the diffusion of AI and Big Data. 

Her current research interests are in the area of time perception influences on decision-making, creativity, self-regulation, self-control, cognitive biases and debiasing, consumer happiness, and generally in how emotions and cognitions interact in judgment and decision-making. Anne-Laure has published in Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Current Opinions in Psychology,  the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Pediatrics.

Anne-Laure often appears in the media to talk about her research (e.g., CNN, NPR, the New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Conversation) as well as about general science today. She authored two books in French on the influence that first names have on our lives, Le Pouvoir des prénoms (2018) and La Science des prénoms (2019).