In 2017, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government awarded Mellers the Thomas C. Schelling Award in recognition of "remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy.
"[2] She worked with the Nobel Prize winning economist and psychologist, Daniel Kahneman to analyze the research of Matthew Killingsworth to help come to a consensus on how money and wealth influences happiness.
[3] Mellers earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.
She conducts both laboratory and field experimental work that examine human decision-making and its implications for politics and public policy.
[5] Mellers is a co-founder of the Good Judgment Project, with colleagues Philip Tetlock and Don Moore.