Briana S Last

Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Briana S Last is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies mental health services with a particular focus on Philadelphia’s public mental health system. She employs insights from behavioural economics to better understand clinical decision-making under resource scarcity. She lives in Chicago.

Written by Briana S Last

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THINKERS AND THEORIES

The id and the nudge: where Freud meets behavioural economics

Both Sigmund Freud and behavioural economists describe a dual-process mind. But the differences in their ideas are revealing

by Briana S Last