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. He is on the 2026-27 academic job market.

Steve's research focuses on how consumers make decisions under uncertainty and interact with new technologies, including how inferences about the nature of uncertainty as knowable or random shape consumer judgment, and how AI involvement shapes consumers' inferences about others and themselves. Explore the research tab for an overview of selected projects.

 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.