DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: AMOS TVERSKY Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was one of the leading Psychologists of the 20th century, best known for the research program he advanced, in collaboration with Daniel Kahneman, generally known as the Heuristics and Biases program. It is thought that if Tversky were alive when […]
PROFESSOR DICK WITTINK Dick Wittink, one of the world’s leading professors of business, member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, advisor to many, and Editor of the Journal of Marketing Research has died Tuesday at age 59, as reported in the New Haven Register. I was in regular contact with Dick over the past […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: DUNCAN LUCE AWARDED 2003 NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE R. Duncan Luce is a Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science and Economics at UC Irvine. At the age of 79 Luce, in recognition of his work in the behavioral and social sciences, has been named one of eight U.S. scientists and engineers […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: EGON BRUNSWIK Egon Brunswik (1903-1955), a pioneer of cognitive psychology, devoted much of his work to the extension and elaboration of the fundamental point that psychology should focus as much on the properties of the organism’s environment as it does to the organism itself. The environment that an organism comes into […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: GORDON BOWER Dr. Gordon Bower is considered one of the nation’s leading experimental psychologists and learning theorists. He did some of the earliest work investigating the effect of mood states on memory. In 1959 he received his PhD with distinction from Yale University. That same year Dr. Bower became a member […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: DANIEL KAHNEMAN WINNER OF THE 2002 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES Currently, Daniel Kahneman is both the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a fellow at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: RICHARD H. THALER Richard Thaler is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of behavioral science and economics at University of Chicago. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Decision Research, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-director of the project on behavioral […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: GERD GIGERENZER Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He won the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences. Recent Career: 1997-Present Director […]
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: ROBYN DAWES Recent Career: 1997-Present The Charles J. Queenan, Jr. University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University. 1995-1996 Acting Head, Dept. of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University 1994 Fellow, Center for Rationality & Interactive Decision Making, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1992-Present University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) 1990-Present Professor of Psychology, […]
