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Monthly Archive November, 2006

Roll your own computerized psych experiments

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PXLAB: FREE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT SOFTWARE You could spend a lot of money on software that runs psychology experiments and takes care of: precise timing, control over blocks & randomization, graphics presentation, online data collection, and more. Or, you could use PXLab which is free and open-source, which means your are allowed to adapt it to […]

Do you NC?

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TENURE-TRACK POSITIONS AT THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNC-CHAPEL HILL POSITIONS: The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking applications for up to three Tenure-Track positions beginning winter/summer 2007. Appointment may be made at the Assistant, Associate or […]

Houston, we have a Society For Judgment and Decision Making conference

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SJDM 27TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE NOV 17-20, 2006 HOUSTON It’s on. The 27th (can you believe it?), JDM conference program starts Saturday morning. As usual, Decision Science News will be in attendance, covering both the judgment and the decision-making action. CONFERENCE TOOLS Program – print pages 2 to 6 to get your bearings once you land […]

Is greed biological?

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NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EXPECTED UTILITY Those in the NY metro area may wish to catch a Center for the Decision Sciences talk Thursday, November 9th, 2006 from 5:15pm-6:45pm, at Columbia University’s Warren Hall Room 311 at 115th & Amsterdam in New York City. The speaker is friend of DSN and CDS Jason Zweig and he’ll […]

Do meetings make for worse decisions?

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IMPROVING DECISION MAKING BY NOT MEETING FACE-TO-FACE Scott Armstrong of Wharton has recently polled the mailing lists of decision experts looking for evidence that face-to-face meetings lead to more accurate forecasts and better decisions than alternatives such as virtual teams or prediction markets. He found none. Evidence-based Armstrong comes down on the side of the […]