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Monthly Archive November, 2009

Boulder financial decision making conference, abstracts due Dec 15, 2009

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FIRST ANNUAL BOULDER SUMMER CONFERENCE ON CONSUMERS’ FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING What: First Annual Boulder Summer Conference on Consumers’ Financial Decision Making When: June 27-29, 2010 Where: Hotel Boulderado, Boulder, Colorado Deadline: Abstract SubmissionDecember 15, 2009 Decision Science News was at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder last week, had […]

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk meets classic JDM experiments

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A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF EXPERIMENTS NOW POSSIBLE Gabriele Paolacci sends along the following announcement. Decision Science News is also a fan of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (or mturk as we insiders call it), and it and its colleagues at Yahoo! Research are actively using with the evolving methodology. You are probably aware of the growing […]

SJDM 2009 Boston. November 20-23, 2009.

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2009 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING Just a reminder that the annual Society For Judgment and Decision Making Conference, the conference most in line with the interests of the readers of this blog, is just around the corner. When: November 21-23, 2009. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the […]

Solving problems by thinking from a distance

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INCREASED CREATIVITY WHEN THINKING ABOUT DISTANT THINGS Decision Science News has nothing against a good word problem. Heck, there would be no field of Judgment and Decision Making if it weren’t for Kahneman & Tversky’s word problems. Here’s one A prisoner was attempting to escape from a tower. He found a rope in his cell […]