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 interpret and respond to communications from organizations and institutional systems. Using field experiments, surveys, and lab studies, I examine how people form beliefs about organizational intent and how those beliefs shape engagement, trust, and behavior. 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 consumers recognize and make sense of behavioral interventions, such as nudges, reminders, and recommendations, seeking to build theory about how organizations can influence behavior in ways that are perceived as legitimate, respectful, and effective.

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.