SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER

Just a reminder that the quarterly Society for Judgment and Decision Making newsletter can be downloaded from the SJDM site:

http://sjdm.org/newsletters/

It features jobs, conferences, announcements, and more.

Enjoy!
Decision Science News / SJDM Newsletter Editor

SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER

Just a reminder that the Quarterly Society for Judgment and Decision Making newsletter can be downloaded from the SJDM site:

http://sjdm.org/newsletters/

Enjoy!

SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER & 2011 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

This weekend (Nov 4-7, 2011) is the annual Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference. Find the preliminary program for the conference in the current SJDM newsletter available for download here.

It’s not too late to make a spontaneous decision to attend the conference. Here are the facts.

WHERE: Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Washington State Conference Center, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA
WHEN: Nov 4-7, 2011
REGISTRATION: It’s is too late to register early, do it once there
MAP: http://bit.ly/tnuhCz

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PROFESSORSHIP AT THE DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (OPIM), THE WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, is home to faculty with a diverse set of interests in decision-making, information technology, information-based strategy, operations management, and operations research. We are seeking applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at any level: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by June 30, 2013 is acceptable) from an accredited institution and have an outstanding research record or potential in the OPIM Department’s areas of research. Candidates with interests in multiple fields are encouraged to apply. The appointment
is expected to begin July 1, 2012 and the rank is open.

More information about the Department is available at:
http://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/

Interested individuals should complete and submit an online application via our secure website, and must include:

-A cover letter (indicating the areas for which you wish to be considered)
-Curriculum vitae
-Names of three recommenders, including email addresses [junior-level candidates]
-Sample publications and abstracts
-Teaching summary information, if applicable (courses taught, enrollment and evaluations)

To apply please visit our web site:
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/home/recruiting.html

Further materials, including (additional) papers and letters of recommendation, will be requested as needed. To ensure full consideration, materials should be received by November 14th, 2011, but applications will continue to be reviewed until the position is filled.

Contact:
Maurice Schweitzer
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3730 Walnut Street
500 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minority candidates, veterans and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

32ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING, NOV 5-7, 2011, SEATTLE, WA, USA.

Now might be a good time to get a hotel reservation and flight to this year’s JDM conference. The Sheraton Seattle Hotel (map) is offering a discounted rate to the Psychonomics Society Meeting attendees, which JDM attendees can take advantage of (hotel rate information).

Decision Science News will see you in Seattle!

2011 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) invites abstracts for symposia, oral presentations, and posters on any interesting topic related to judgment and decision making. Completed manuscripts are not required. Details are available here: http://www.sjdm.org/programs/2011-cfp.html

LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM
SJDM’s annual conference will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, during November 5-7, 2011. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the evening of Friday, November 4. Hotel reservations at the $186/night. Psychonomic convention rate will be available.

SUBMISSIONS
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011. Submissions for symposia, oral presentations, and posters should be made through the SJDM website at http://sql.sjdm.org. Technical questions can be addressed to the webmaster at www@sjdm.org. All other questions can be addressed to the program chair, Nathan Novemsky, at nathan.novemsky@yale.edu.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nathan Novemsky (Chair), Michel Regenwetter, Bernd Figner, Robyn LeBoeuf, Gretchen Chapman, Ulf Reips, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Ellie Kyung, Anuj Shah.

EXECUTIVE BOARD
Eldar Shafir (shafir@princeton.edu), President
Valerie Reyna (vr53@cornell.edu), Past President
George Wu (wu@chicagobooth.edu), President Elect (and Elected Member, 2008-2011)
Gal Zauberman (gal@wharton.upenn.edu), Elected Member, 2010-2011 (replacing George Wu)
Ellen Peters (peters.498@osu.edu), Elected Member, 2009-2012
Gretchen Chapman (gbc@rci.rutgers.edu), Elected Member 2010-2013)
Bud Fennema (fennema@fsu.edu), Secretary-Treasurer
Jon Baron (baron@psych.upenn.edu), Webmaster
Dan Goldstein (dan@dangoldstein.com), Newsletter Editor and Co-webmaster
Nathan Novemsky (nathan.novemsky@yale.edu), 2011 Program Committee Chair

Photo credit:http://www.flickr.com/photos/guy_incognito/63774780/

SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY, UTILITY, AND DECISION MAKING CONFERENCE (SPUDM) 2011

What: SPUDM23 Conference 21st – 25th August 2011
When: Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM – Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM (GMT)
Where: Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

Online registration for the SPUDM23 conference in Kingston University London is now OPEN. Please visit: http://spudm23conference.eventbrite.com and select your tickets. Early bird fees will be available until the 15th of June 2011.

Note that, due to logistics restrictions, we are only able to offer 175 tickets for each of the Keynote lectures. We strongly encourage you to register early to secure a seat. Those without tickets will be able to follow the keynote lectures via a live video stream in an adjacent room.

Instructions for poster presentations are also available at:
http://spudm23.eadm.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=100022

2011 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) invites abstracts for symposia, oral presentations, and posters on any interesting topic related to judgment and decision making. Completed manuscripts are not required.

LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM
SJDM’s annual conference will be held in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, during November 5-7, 2011. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the evening of Friday, November 4.

Hotel reservations at the $186/night Psychonomic convention rate will be available.

Ed Diener will be the keynote speaker.

SUBMISSIONS
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011. Submissions for symposia, oral presentations, and posters should be made through the SJDM website at http://sql.sjdm.org. Technical questions can be addressed to the webmaster at www@sjdm.org. All other questions can be addressed to the program chair, Nathan Novemsky, at nathan.novemsky at yale.edu.

ELIGIBILITY
At least one author of each presentation must be a member of SJDM. Joining at the time of submission will satisfy this requirement. To join, see http://www.sjdm.org/join.html. An individual may submit only one talk (podium presentation) as presenter and only one poster, but may be a co-author on multiple talks and/or posters.

AWARDS

The Best Student Poster Award is given for the best poster presentation whose first author is a student member of SJDM.

The Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award is intended to encourage outstanding work by new researchers. Applications are due July 1, 2011. Further details are available at http://www.sjdm.org.

The Jane Beattie Memorial Fund subsidizes travel to North America for a foreign scholar in pursuits related to judgment and decision research, including attendance at the annual SJDM meeting. Further details will be available at http://www.sjdm.org.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nathan Novemsky (Chair), Michel Regenwetter, Bernd Figner, Robyn LeBeouf, Gretchen Chapman, Ulf Reips, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Ellie Kyung, Anuj Shah

Photo credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/SeattleMontage.png

DAN ARIELY, JAMES ANDREONI KEYNOTE SPEAKING. DEADLINE JUNE 1, 2011

“If only I could find paper and envelopes to match my skirt and jacket”

(This photo has little to do with behavioral economics,
but that didn’t stop them from using it on the TIBER Web site)

Join Ilja van Beest, Rik Pieters, Jan Potters, Diederik Stapel, and Marcel Zeelenberg in one of DSN’s favorite places this summer as …

You are invited to attend the 10th Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER) symposium on Psychology and Economics, to be held at Tilburg University, August 19th, 2011.

We are happy to announce that Dan Ariely and James Andreoni are confirmed keynote speakers.

We invite contributions from the fields of psychology, economics, and marketing.

If you would like to present your work (in a 20-30 minute talk), please send an abstract (max. 300 words) to tibersymposium@uvt.nl before June 1st, 2011. You are also very much welcome to attend the symposium if you do not present your work.

Further information will soon be available from the website.

SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER

Society for Judgment and Decision Making Newsletter Editor Dan Goldstein reports that the March 2011 SJDM newsletter is ready for download.

http://www.sjdm.org/newsletters/11-mar.pdf

Enjoy!