Andrea Low

I am a doctoral student at UCLA Anderson in the Behavioral Decision Making area.

Hello and welcome to my website!

I am a doctoral student at UCLA Anderson School of Management in the Behavioral Decision Making area, advised by Dr Hengchen Dai and Dr Stephen Spiller.

At SJDM 2025, Kianté Fernandez, Jon Bogard, and I conducted a workshop on bot detection in online surveys. This is an ongoing area of research we're working on and if you'd like to hear more, get involved, or just chat about methods more broadly, please reach out!

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I study how individuals think about, interact with, and make decisions in response to institutions and systems. My research combines field experiments, surveys, and lab studies to understand how people form beliefs about themselves and the organizations they encounter. One line of work focuses on a construct I call bureaucratic receptiveness, which captures individual differences in openness to rules, procedures, and institutional authority. Another line investigates how to design and implement scalable behavioral interventions that help people take actions aligned with their long-term health, well-being, and goals.

Prior to graduate school, I received a BA in Economics and Sociology from Sciences Po Paris, and a MSc by Research in Statistics from the National University of Singapore.