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DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: ROBYN DAWES<\/p>\n

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Recent Career: <\/strong>
\n1997-Present The Charles J. Queenan, Jr. University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University.
\n1995-1996 Acting Head, Dept. of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
\n1994 Fellow, Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Making, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
\n1992-Present University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
\n1990-Present Professor of Psychology, Department of Social & Decision Sciences, CMU<\/p>\n

Selected Books Published<\/strong>
\n* Rational Choice in an Uncertain World<\/A>
\n* House of Cards<\/A><\/p>\n


\nQuotes:<\/strong>
\n“My current research spans five areas: intuitive expertise, human cooperation, retrospective memory, methodology and United States AIDS policy. […] I write journal articles and books because I believe the information they contain could be valuable — at least on a “perhaps, maybe” basis. I have never written anything with the expectation that it will sell, or become a ‘”citation classic” (although one of my articles has). I believe that in American culture we are obsessed with outcomes rather than with behaving in ways that tend to bring about the best expected outcomes, while “time and chance” play a very important role. […] Some of my clinical colleagues claim that feelings are not understood until they can be put into words. My own view is that every translation of a feeling, thought, idea or mathematical form into words involves at least a small element of automatic distortion, often a much larger element.<\/p>\n

“We observe more human cooperation than can be readily inferred from a game theoretic analysis that assumes people are = selfish. I have long been dubious that we can “rescue” this analysis by extending it to include “side payments” (e.g. reciprocal altruism, concern with reputation, utility for acting in accord with a socially instilled conscience, benefit to those genetically related.” <\/p>\n

An interview with Dawes<\/a><\/p>\n

Home page at CMU<\/a>
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\nSelected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M. (2001) Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudoscientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Fail Think Rationally. Westview Press.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M. (1988) and (in press 2001). Rational Choice in an Uncertain World. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. (Recipient of the William James Award of Division #1 of the American Psychological Association ’90). Second edition Hastie, R. & Dawes, R.M., Sage Press.<\/p>\n

Swets, J.A., Dawes, R.M., and Monahan, J. (2000). Psychological science can improve diagnostic decisions. Psychological Sciences in the Public Interest (a supplement to Psychological Science), 1, No. 1.<\/p>\n

Swets, J.A., Dawes, R.M., and Monahan, J. (2000). Better decisions through science, Scientific American, 283, 4, 70-75.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M., and messick, D.M. (2000). Social dilemmas. In = International Journal of Psychology. Special Issue on Diplomacy and Pschology, 35, 111-116.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M. (1998). Behavioral decision making, judgment, and inference. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 589-597.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M., and Mulford, M. (1996. The false consensus effect and overconfidence: Flaws in judgment, or flaws in how we study judgment? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 65, no. 3, 201-211.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M. (1994). House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth. New York: The Free Press. Printed in paperback, September 1996.<\/p>\n

Dawes, R.M. (1991). Social dilemmas, economic self-interest and evolutionary theory. In D.R. Brown & J.E.K. Smith (Eds.), Recent Research in Psychology: Frontiers of Mathematical Psychology: Essays in Honor of Clyde Coombs. New York: Springer-Verlag, 53-79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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