Biography
Romain Cadario is an Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management. Before joining Erasmus University, he held a postdoctoral position at Boston University. In his research, Romain studies consumer judgment and decision making, with a specific focus on choice architecture, behavioral interventions, and the psychology of artificial intelligence. His work was published in leading marketing journals (Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science) and general science journals (PNAS, Nature Human Behavior). Romain has been teaching a variety of classes in marketing and quantitative methods.
Selected publications
Cadario, R., Zimmermann, J. & Van den Bergh, B. (2025). Beyond opt-out: how presumed-consent language shapes persuasion. Journal of Marketing.
Celiktutan, B., Cadario, R. & Morewedge, C.K. (2024). People see more of their biases in algorithms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cadario, R., Longoni, C. & Morewedge, C.K. (2021). Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour.
Cadario, R. & Chandon, P. (2020). Which healthy eating nudges work best? A meta-analysis of field experiments. Marketing Science.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- cadario@rsm.nl
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Work
- Romain Cadario, Jenny Zimmermann & Bram Van den Bergh (2025) - Beyond Opt-Out: How Presumed-Consent Language Shapes Persuasion - Journal of Marketing - doi: 10.1177/00222429251323885 - [link]
- Romain Cadario, Yi Li & Anne Kathrin Klesse (2025) - Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Mapping Carbon Emissions to Food Items Facilitates Choices of Plant-Based over Animal-Based Items - Appetite, 208 - doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.107910 - [link]
- Christophe Lembregts & Romain Cadario (2024) - Consumer-driven climate mitigation: Exploring barriers and solutions in studying higher mitigation potential behaviors - International Journal of Research in Marketing, 41 (3), 513-528 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2024.04.001 - [link]
- Begum Celiktutan, Romain Cadario & Carey K. Morewedge (2024) - People see more of their biases in algorithms - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (16), e2317602121 - doi: 10.1073/pnas.2317602121 - [link]
- Carmel Shachar, Romain Cadario, I. Glenn Cohen & Carey K. Morewedge (2023) - HIPAA is a misunderstood and inadequate tool for protecting medical data - Nature Medicine, 29 (8), 1900-1902 - doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02355-y - [link]
- Pierre Chandon & Romain Cadario (2023) - Healthy in the wrong way: Mismatching of marketers’ food claim use and consumers’ preferences in the United States but not France - Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 51 (1), 153-173 - doi: 10.1007/s11747-022-00885-4 - [link]
- Romain Cadario & Carey Morewedge (2022) - Why Do People Eat the Same Breakfast Every Day? Goals and Circadian Rhythms of Variety Seeking in Meals - Appetite, 168 - doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105716 - [link]
- Chiara Longoni, Romain Cadario & Carey Morewedge (2021) - For Patients to Trust Medical AI, They Need to Understand It - Harvard Business Review (digital) - [link]
- Romain Cadario, Chiara Longoni & Carey K. Morewedge (2021) - Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence - Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (12), 1636-1642 - doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01146-0 - [link]
- S Holden, N Zlatevska, J Parkinson, Romain Cadario, C Dubelaar, J Lei, E Moore, N Sayarh, A Van Kerckhove & C Werle (2021) - Unpalatable food for thought: let marketing research guide effective public obesity interventions - Obesity Reviews, 22 (2) - doi: 10.1111/obr.13141 - [link]
- Romain Cadario (28 June 2023) - AI for patients: Hype or Hope?
- Romain Cadario (15 December 2021) - Study Explains Why We Eat the Same Breakfast All The Time
- Romain Cadario (13 December 2021) - Study reveals why humans eat same breakfast on a daily basis
- Romain Cadario (13 December 2021) - Why You Eat the Same Thing For Breakfast Every Day
- Romain Cadario (24 August 2021) - AI is not a bad doctor – if you trust it
