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Monthly Archive June, 2014

SJDM Newsletter and 2014 JDM Conference deadline

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The Society For Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the current newsletter is ready for download. Don’t forget the SJDM conference submission deadline is June 30, 2014.

Fellowship Opportunity with the U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team

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The U.S. Government’s Social and Behavioral Science Team (SBST) is currently seeking exceptionally qualified individuals to serve as Fellows.

A bunch of papers about the widsom of smaller, smarter crowds

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It has come to our attention that a number of papers, all making similar points have been produced at about the same time. Here they are.

Changing the riskiness of bets to make hot hands happen

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A new paper by Juemin Xu and Nigel Harvey called “Carry on winning: The gamblers’ fallacy creates hot hand effects in online gambling” is fascinating.

Preston McAfee joins Microsoft as Chief Economist

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Preston McAfee, decade-long editor of the American Economic Review, Caltech professor, and all around economist extraordinaire starts today as Chief Economist of Microsoft.