The journal Judgment and Decision Making today published the third special issue on “Recognition processes in inferential decision making (III)” edited by Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl and Oliver Vitouch. All the articles address the recognition heuristic [Goldstein, D. G. & Gigerenzer, G. (2002). Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic. Psychological Review, 109, 75-90.]
This week the reader is directed to Messy Matters to read up on research conducted by Sharad Goel, Duncan Watts and Dan Goldstein in which they hunted for traces of “viral” diffusion on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo!, and beyond. The results run counter to mainstream intuition.
Decision Science News was recently at a cocktail party and mentioned that the percentage of articles in social psychology that employ deception can be as high as 80%.
Last week, Decision Science News posted about a “no-decision diet” in which its editor followed, for one week and without exceptions, a healthy diet designed by someone else. Since then, a number of people have written in asking to have a look at the diet. If you were hoping to find out what the diet included, today is your lucky day.
In a short span of time, two articles have emerged that question some notable claims of influence in social networks. This does seem important, so we list them here.
Gigerenzer, G., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (Eds.). (2011). Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shlomo Benartzi, Nick Barberis, Kent Daniel, Dan Goldstein, Noah Goldstein, John Payne and Richard Thaler make up the Academic Advisory Board of the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. Based on interviews with this set, the Center has released a white paper entitled “Behavioral Finance in Action Psychological challenges in the financial advisor/client relationship, and strategies to solve them”. It is basically advice for financial advisers, written with the conviction that if advisers know more about psychology, they’ll be able to provide better advice.
Society for Judgment and Decision Making Newsletter Editor Dan Goldstein reports that the final SJDM newsletter of 2010 is ready for download.
SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER Society for Judgment and Decision Making Newsletter Editor Dan Goldstein reports that the final SJDM newsletter of 2010 is ready for download. http://www.sjdm.org/files/newsletters/ Enjoy!
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 [...]
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