Cortney Stephen Rodet

Associate Professor of EconomicsDirector, The Menard Family George Washington Forum Ohio University Contact:Ohio University Department of EconomicsBentley Hall AnnexAthens, OH 45701rodet [at] ohio [dot] edu

Research Interests: Experimental Economics; Behavioral Economics; Creativity; Innovation; Ethics; Institutions

Welcome to my page. I hope you find something interesting. If you'd like to talk research, teaching, guitars, or music, drop me a line!

My current projects include various investigations into creativity including understanding the role of diversity in team creativity, modeling and testing theories of how people learn creativity, and examining how work affects cognition and creativity. I am also pursuing projects (in the lab and using observational data) related to industry competition and its effect on innovation. Another current agenda focuses on testing models of cooperation in complex games.

I also direct the George Washington Forum at Ohio University - a program that integrates student and public programming, with a purpose of fostering curiosity, generating intellectual exploration, and supporting diversity of thought.

I also offer consultation services as an expert witness. Please email me and we can discuss your project's needs.

Recent publications:

Rodet, Cortney S. "Revisiting the positive effects of diversity on creative teams in novel creative tasks." Economics Letters, forthcoming.

Barton, Jared, and Cortney S. Rodet. "Economic literacy and public policy positions." Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming.

Smyth, Andrew, and Cortney S. Rodet. "Cooperation in indefinite games: Evidence from red queen games." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 208 (2023): 230-257.

Rodet, Cortney S. "Does cognitive load affect creativity? An experiment using a divergent thinking task." Economics Letters 220 (2022): 110849.

Dutcher, Glenn, and Cortney S. Rodet. "Which two heads are better than one? Uncovering the positive effects of diversity in creative teams." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 31.4 (2022): 884-897.

Rodet, Cortney S. "Experiments on creativity and work design." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 30.3 (2021): 600-613.

Rodet, Cortney S. "The wellspring of creativity? Using divergent‐thinking tasks to understand creative characteristics." Managerial and Decision Economics 42.6 (2021): 1435-1453.