Joshua Conrad Jackson became a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in 2023, and is a faculty member in the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Jackson studies how people’s attitudes and belief systems co-evolve with their societies over time. For example, how do people’s moral values change as societies become larger and more anonymous? And how do people’s religious beliefs change during large-scale threats like wars or pandemics? He pursues these questions by combining experimental studies with less traditional behavioral science methods, such as natural language processing, quantitative ethnographic analysis, and agent-based modeling.
Before joining Booth, Josh was a DRRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has also worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Josh earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in social psychology, and his B.A. from McGill University in Psychology and East Asian History.