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Good news for Judgment and Decision Making researchers, a new APA journal entitled Decision is getting ready to launch. Be on the look out for its web site in the next weeks. Here are some details.
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Daniel Kahneman issued an open letter to researchers doing social priming research, which has become the subject of skepticism after some studies were found to be fabricated and others were not able to be independently replicated. His letter offers advice to scholars about how to address the situation, and we at DSN like the approach: Simply find out the truth and announce it.
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We recently connected through London’s Heathrow Airport, and learned a couple things about fast polling and celebrity wranglers.
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PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should have sent their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Educator’s Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.
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FOUNDING MEMBERS OF MICROSOFT RESEARCH’S NEW YORK CITY LAB As reported in the New York Times (Microsoft Taps Yahoo Scientists for New York Research Lab) and elsewhere, we’re moving to Microsoft. Your Decision Science News editor will be one of the founding members of a brand new Microsoft Research Lab in New York City. The [...]
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Decision Science News readers know about Hal Hershfield and Dan Goldstein’s experiments in which they exposed people to interactive images of their future self to see how it would impact their saving behavior (pictured above).
The idea was sent up in three Saturday Night Live fake commercials for Lincoln Financial. The SNL interactions with the future self were a lot more awkward than ours, but maybe that’s a good thing for changing behavior?
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Decision Science News is no stranger to misleading infographics in free New York newspapers. We could stop reading them entirely, but we find that playing “spot the infographic flaw” makes time fly on the subway.
Recently we saw the above graphic in a paper called Metro. Can you spot the goof?
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PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should have sent their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Educator’s Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.
