A NEW MEDICAL DECISION MAKING BLOG Alan Schwartz of the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine has started a new blog in advance of his forthcoming book “Making Medical Decisions: A Physician’s Guide” by himself and George Bergus (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Visit the blog at Making Medical Decisions. Today, we quote an example of […]
THE INFLUENCE OF CEILING HEIGHT DSN reports from Warsaw this week, where the SPUDM (Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making) conference is wrapping up. Much knowledge was exchanged on the last day in a symposium on experience-based decisions. In other news, always watching the journals for articles that are about to make a splash in […]
REVIEWS AND REVISIONS MADE PUBLIC There is unnecessary secrecy around the review process. Forward-thinkers, such as those at Nature, have experimented with open peer review, but ultimately decided the world was not ready. However, large advances sometimes happen via small steps, and a toned-down version might open minds to open review. The good people over […]
A FEW DAYS LEFT: SCP 2008 NEW ORLEANS DEADLINE EXTENDED Consumer psychologists and budding consumer psychologists will be happy to know that the deadline for the Society for Consumer Psychology 2008 conference has extended its deadline until Thursday, August 9th, 2007. It’s not much time, but it’s time enough. Previous Decision Science News post on […]
GIGERENZER INTERVIEWED IN SALON.COM Leading Judgment and Decision-Making scholar Gerd Gigerenzer was interviewed in Salon.com this week about his new book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious in a piece amusingly titled “Should National Security Depend on Michael Chertoff’s Gut?” The interview, which covers September 11th, fly balls, high school dropouts, illegal drugs, and […]
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