POSTDOC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GSB The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Center for Decision Research anticipates hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow for a period of one to two years, with a starting date of August 2006. The Postdoctoral Fellow will serve as the lab manager of the Graduate School of Business’s Decision […]
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RISK ANALYSIS 2006 Risk Analysis 2006 will be held 19 – 21 June 2006 in Malta, Spain. Risk Analysis 2006 is the fifth in this popular conference series on “Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation”. Covering a series of important topics, which are of current research interest and have practical applications, the conference […]
THE EFFECT OF BRAND RECOGNITION ON HOW WE BUY The recognition heuristic makes a prediction that in specific domains, recognized (previously-encountered) items will be chosen over unrecognzied (completely novel) items. Wayne D. Hoyer and Steven P. Brown ran studies in 1990 to see to what degree brand recognition affected consumer choice. They found two brands […]
COLLABORATIVE DECISION RESEARCH WITH WIKIS DSN has talked and worked with several labs that use Wikis and Blogs to organize lab research. Instead of emailing files to one another, lab members can simply post them to a lab wiki. Parts of wikis and be password protected, as can blogs offered by typepad.com. Free online wikis […]
INTERUNIVERSITY DECISION BEHAVIOR TEACHING REPOSITORY The Interuniversity Decision Behavior Teaching Repository is a harbor for materials on teaching decision making from the world over. The project was started up by J. Frank Yates, with the help of a National Science Foundation grant. In his words: “The future of judgment and decision making scholarship depends directly […]
35TH EUROPEAN MARKETING ACADEMY CONFERENCE IN ATHENS GREECE The 35th European Marketing Academy Conference will take place in Athens, Greece from May 23rd to May 26th, 2006. The self-described aim of the conference is “to determine and interpret the conditions that are necessary for marketing leadership, while relating the findings of academic research with actionable […]
NASSAU W. SENIOR Modern decision science, economics, psychology, and marketing have made a cottage industry of intertemporal choice research. The topic has deep roots, including this quote which suggests it’s one of the most important questions there is: “It may be said that pure abstinence, being a mere negation, cannot produce positive effects; the same […]
ARE DEFAULT EFFECTS CAUSED BY PUBLIC IGNORANCE? A debate on the Becker-Posner blog includes this hunch by Posner: One possible reason the weak default rule appears to have a significant effect is public ignorance. The probability that one’s organs will be harvested for use in transplantation must be very slight–so slight that it doesn’t pay […]
