Catalyst Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Neal is supported by a multidisciplinary team of behavioral scientists, research methodologists, and statisticians with deep experience in litigation survey design, fielding, and analysis. The team is further supported by a network of academic and industry fellows drawn from leading research universities and the marketing profession.

Core Research Team

Connie Rodman, M.S.

Principal Research Scientist

Cary Anderson, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist

Don Clermont, M.P.H.

Senior Research Scientist

Penny Scudder

Business Manager

Academic Fellows

Dan Bauer, Ph.D.

Professor, UNC–Chapel Hill

Claudia Townsend, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Miami

Juliano Laran, Ph.D.

Consumer Psychologist

Asaf Mazar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Industry Fellows

Daniel Epstein, M.B.A.

Principal, Daniel Epstein & Associates

Dan Bauer, a quantitative psychologist, is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC–Chapel Hill, where he serves as the Director of the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory. His methodological expertise spans structural equation modeling, item response theory, latent class analysis, mixture modeling, and longitudinal data analysis. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and led grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Through CenterStat.org, an online training platform he co-founded, he has taught quantitative methods to over 10,000 researchers worldwide.