Dr. Kathleen Ngangoué is an Assistant Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she is part of the Global Economics and Management unit. Before joining UCLA Anderson, she obtained her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2017 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of New York University and the Center for Experimental Social Science from 2017 to 2021. Ngangoué’s main areas of interest are experimental, behavioral and information economics. More specifically, her research focuses on belief formation and decision-making under uncertainty and draws insights from psychology and neuroeconomics. She is particularly interested in the interaction between markets and bounded rationality or non-standard preferences. For instance, part of her research focuses on how hypothetical thinking may lead to suboptimal economic decisions. In her most recent work, she analyses why people make different decisions when uncertainty emanates from different sources. Ngangoué was partly raised in the Republic of Congo and partly in Germany.