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Monthly Archive June, 2012

Gott’s Principle

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So there you have it, an heuristic for predicting the lifetimes of things. It doesn’t apply everywhere (e.g., it doesn’t work on human lives), but it’s kind of fun.

2012 guide to the American Marketing Association job market interviews for aspiring professors

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PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should have sent their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Educator’s Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.

SJDM 2012 Call for Papers

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SJDM’s annual conference (JDM 2012) will be held in the Minneapolis Convention Center and the Hilton Minneapolis Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, during November 16-19, 2012. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the evening of Friday, November 16. Hotel reservations at the $170/night Psychonomic convention rate are available.

If you bet that you’ll lose weight, do you regain it when the bet is over?

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At Decision Science News, we love the commitment devices. But, as we’ve have spoken about, we have mixed feelings about them, including the nagging concern is that commitment devices they may not lead to deep-seated changes or habit formation.

The hot hand effect in volleyball

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Belief in the hot hand in sports is the belief that someone who makes a shot has an increased probability of making the next shot, and that someone who misses a shot has a decreased probability of making the next shot.