Nils Olsen is a faculty member within the Organizational Sciences Program, in the Department of Organizational Sciences & Communication at The George Washington University. Nils is trained as a social psychologist and statistician, and approaches his research and teaching from a behavioral economics perspective (Ph.D., Social Psychology; additional concentration in statistics; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A., Social Psychology, University of Iowa at Iowa City; & B.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison). Nils' specific research interests include: (a) decision-making in high-intensity settings (e.g., emergency department physicians, financial decision-makers - see GW TODAY article, https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/extreme-decisions; (b) perceptions of artificially intelligent agents / bots, https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-researchers-converge-paris; and (c) consumer decision-making. Nils has publications appearing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Academic Emergency Medicine, Brain Research Bulletin, and the Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-the-London-2012-Olympic-and-Paralympic-Games-Volume-Two-Celebrating/Girginov/p/book/9780415671927. Nils' applied experience includes work within the Global Executive MBA Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Duke Corporate Education, Inc., the American Bar Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), and Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche Bank). His presentations include events at JP Morgan Chase, the Trading Floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Association for Psychological Science, London Business School, the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS), the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), and the National Geographic Channel. Nils has been honored with The George Washington University’s (Columbian College of Arts & Sciences) Graduate Programs Advisor of the Year Award (2013), nominated for the Honey Nashman Spark a Life Award (2015), and nominated for the GW Student-Athletes' Professor of the Year Award (Finalist in 2017 & Nominee in 2018, 2019). As a tribute to his commitment to research, Nils has successfully mentored Organizational Sciences majors to secure either the #1 or #2 spots (or both) in GW's Research Days (GW Research Showcase) for 7 consecutive years: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (2020 - cancelled), & 2021.