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Monthly Archive February, 2008

Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith at bounded rationality summer school

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7TH MAX PLANCK SUMMER INSTITUTE ON BOUNDED RATIONALITY ANNOUNCEMENT The 7th Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics will introduce graduate students and early career researchers from different disciplines to the study of bounded and ecological rationality. This novel approach to human decision making examines the simple processes and cognitive mechanisms that enable […]

Get paid to research experimental social science, soccer, and the like

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JOBS IN THE UK AT DECTECH AND OXFORD DECISION TECHNOLOGY Decision Technology is a commercial decision research spin-out, based in central London, co-founded by Nick Chater and Henry Stott. We work internationally, mainly advising large corporations on consumer decision making. We are currently hiring several analysts, ideally with a mix of very strong academic background […]

Strategies for decision making

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MAJOR CHOICE STRATEGIES The editor’s somewhat annotated copy of Hastie & Dawes Reid Hastie and Robyn M. Dawes, in their classic Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (pp. 232-234), outline some “major choice strategies,” stemming from several schools including the Heuristics and Biases, Adaptive Decision Maker, and Fast and Frugal research programs: Strategy: DOMINANCE   […]

Prediction markets for the 2008 US election

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POLITIMETRICS Lionel Page (University of Westminster), in conjunction with Paul Antoine Chevalier (Paris School of Economics), Dan Goldstein (London Business School & Decision Science News), Leighton Vaughan Williams (Nottingham Trent University), and Peter Urwin (University of Westminster) are pleased to bring you Politimetrics.com a Web site that uses prediction markets to forecast election outcomes and […]