Silvia is a Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. As a behavioral economist, she studies how financial and psychological motives shape beliefs, information-seeking, and decision-making, with implications for organizational design and public policy.
Her work leverages lab, online, and field experiments to provide both theoretical and practical insights in areas such as moral behavior, health, education, and gender equity in the workplace. Recently, she has focused on developing a nuanced understanding of the factors that favor or hinder the scalability of behavioral science findings.
Her work has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Nature, PNAS, Nature Human Behavior, Management Science, and JAMA, and has been funded by both federal agencies and private foundations. Silvia serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science, has organized leading behavioral economics and behavioral science conferences, and has advised several organizations on leveraging behavioral insights.
