Laura Brandimarte

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems
Laura Brandimarte

McClelland Hall 430Y
1130 E. Helen St. 
P.O. Box 210108 
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0108

Areas of Expertise

Privacy and behavioral economics

Laura Brandimarte joined the Eller College of Management in 2015 after two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also earned her PhD in public policy and management (2012). Her research investigates the ethics of technology, with a primary focus on privacy and security.

Courses

  • MIS 411/511 Social and Ethical Issues of the Internet
  • MIS 513 Business Foundations of Technology

Selected Publications

  • Lin, F. Y., Samtani, S., Zhu, H., Brandimarte, L., Chen, H. (forthcoming). Automated analysis of changes in privacy policies: A structured self-attentive sentence embedding approach. Management Information Systems Quarterly.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Hancock, J. (2022). How Privacy’s Past May Shape Its Future. Science, 375(6578): 270-272.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2020a). Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(4): 736-758.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2020b). Reasons for both pessimism and optimism: A response to the commentaries. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(4): 780-783.
  • Lobschat, L., Müller, B., Eggers, F., Brandimarte, L., Diefenbach, S., Kroshke, M., and Wirtz, J. (2020). Corporate Digital Responsibility. Journal of Business Research, 122: 875-888.
  • Terlizzi, M., Brandimarte, L., and Sanchez, O. (2019). Replication of Internet Privacy Concerns in the Mobile Banking Context, AIS Transactions on Replication Research, 5(1), 8.
  • Brandimarte, L., Vosgerau, J., and Acquisti, A. (2018). Differential Discounting and Present Impact of Past Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(1): 74-92.
  • Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., Balebako, R., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. F., Komanduri, S., Leon, P. G., Sadeh, N., Schaub, F., Sleeper, M., Wang, Y., and Wilson, S. (2017). Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Users’ Choices Online. ACM Computing Surveys, 50(3): 1-41.
  • Peer, E., Brandimarte, L., Samat, S., and Acquisti, A. (2017). Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70: 153-163.
  • Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of Information. Science, 347(6221): 509-514.
  • Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., and Loewenstein, G. (2013). Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(3): 340-347.
  • Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., and Brandimarte, L. (2013). Gone in 15 Seconds: The Limits of Privacy Transparency and Control. IEEE Security & Privacy, 11(4): 72-74.

Degree(s)

  • PhD in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012
  • Master of Science in Economics, London School of Economics, 2006
  • Laurea (4-year Bachelor) in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, 2004