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Monthly Archive October, 2010

Publish your social media research

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JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING SPECIAL ISSUE ON SOCIAL MEDIA CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Interactive Marketing Special Issue Social Media: Issues and Challenges Submission deadline: March 15, 2011 Special Issue Co-Editors Donna L. Hoffman (donna.hoffman@ucr.edu) and Thomas P. Novak (tom.novak@ucr.edu) University of California, Riverside The Journal of Interactive Marketing announces a call for papers on […]

A Guide to Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

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FASTER, CHEAPER, EASIER BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ONLINE One thing Decision Science News particularly enjoys about being at Yahoo! Research is the brilliant colleagues. This week, two of them, Winter Mason and Sid Suri, presented us with this manuscript which is a guide to conducting research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Manuscript? Manuscript from heaven, we say, for […]

What is the field of Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM)?

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WHAT MAKES JDM DISTINCT? A friend of Decision Science News, who is co-organizing a session on JDM (judgment and decision making research) for students, recently emailed a handful of JDM researchers: Those of us in the JDM session are doing quite different research and couldn’t really see how we were more “JDM” than, say, someone […]

Defaults: Tools of choice architecture

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TYPES OF DEFAULTS AND HOW TO SET THEM Defaults are settings or choices that apply to individuals who do not take active steps to change them (Brown & Krishna, 2004). Collections of default settings, or “default configurations” determine the way products, services, or policies are initially encountered by consumers, while “reuse defaults” come into play […]