CAN RECOGNITION HAPPEN WITHOUT RECALL? An important question to those studying neuroeconomics, as well as those studying heuristics such as the recognition heuristic is whether recognition is just a side-effect of recall, or whether recognition is a separate process. In consumer behavior, we wonder if the brain changes patterns of activation in the presence of […]
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ONLINE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE AT ACR Photo courtesy of Matt Coats (click for video). Collecting data over the Internet seems like a solution to all an experimentalist’s problems. Responses can be collected from the far corners of the world, from people in all walks of life. Experiments that would take months can now be carried […]
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IMPROVISED TASTES Ever a students of improvisation, we are happy that Sarah Lichtenstein and Paul Slovic’s new edited volume The Construction of Preference is now out in earth-toned paperback, and that DSN editor’s modest contribution has made the cut. BLURB One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past […]
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FROM INTERNET SOURCES, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, WITH NO CLAIMS OF A COMPLETE LIST Applied Econometric Time Series, W. Enders, 1995, New York, John Wiley & Sons. Elements of Statistical Learning, T. Hastie, R. Tibshirami, and J Friedman, 2001, New York, Springer. Categorical Data Analysis, (2nd ed.), Agresti, A. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. […]
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DEFAULTS DO MATTER Decision Science News and Eric Johnson have teamed up once again to write a piece for the Financial Times on the suprisingly powerful effect of defaults (even simple software defaults) on decisions, from the routine to the life-changing. Their conclusion? History gets written by default. The piece is called “The daily defaults […]
