Stephan (Steve) Carney

Stephan (Steve) Carney is a PhD Candidate in the Marketing department at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he studies consumer judgment and decision making. 

His research examines the metacognitive and social inferences that shape how consumers make decisions in consequential domains, including how consumers construe uncertainty as random or knowable, how they infer effort and agency in human–AI collaboration, and how social and metacognitive cues guide engagement with health, technology, and everyday consumption decisions.

 Prior to joining USC, Steve was the lab manager for the Center for Behavioral and Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed a Master of Science in Marketing at Queen's University Smith School of Business in 2018 and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Marketing and Accounting from Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business in 2016.