Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Professor (Secondary Appointment) in the Fuqua School Business
Academic Area:
Marketing
Mailing Information
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive
Durham, NC 27708
Bio
Scott Huettel is the Dean of the Social Sciences and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in Trinity College of Duke University, with secondary appointments in Marketing (Fuqua School of Business), Neurobiology and Psychiatry (School of Medicine). He earned his Ph.D. from Duke in Experimental Psychology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in functional brain imaging and decision science in Duke’s School of Medicine. Professor Huettel conducts research at the intersection of neuroscience and behavioral economics, where he seeks to discover the mechanisms of economic, social, and moral decision making. He is an author of more than 180 scientific publications, including articles in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, and many others. He is lead author of a primary textbook in neuroscience, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and is a co-editor of the textbooks Neuroscience and Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience. Professor Huettel has won the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Duke University Graduate School, has been recognized as one of the top 5% of undergraduate instructors at Duke, and chaired the committee that developed the new Duke undergraduate liberal arts curriculum.