SOCIETY for JUDGMENT and DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER Vol XV Number 3 September, 1996
Begin making plans now to attend the annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, November 2-4, 1996. A preview of the meeting program is on pages 6-10 of this issue of the newsletter. Also, see the action items below. Join us in Chicago!
Please give your prompt attention to the following items contained in this issue.
ELECTION BALLOT: page 3. Please vote among the excellent candidates for leadership of the society. The ballot is due to Shawn Curley by October 28, 1996. MEETING REGISTRATION AND 1997 DUES: page 13. Please preregister for the annual meeting and make payment of your 1997 dues. Note that the form also allows you to sign up to receive OBHDP and JBDM for 1997 at the Society's discount rates. To avoid the late fee for the meeting registration, please get this form to Irwin Levin by October 22, 1996. HOTEL RESERVATION: page 15. This form can be used for the JDM meeting, as well as for the Psychonomic Society meeting. Your hotel reservation is due to the hotel by September 30, 1996.
From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 J/DM Election Ballot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 1996 J/DM Meeting: Program Information. . . . . . . . . .6 On-Line Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Book Ad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1996 J/DM Meeting Registration and 1997 Dues. . . . . . 13 Position Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 More Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1996 J/DM Meeting: Hotel Reservations . . . . . . . . . 15 Upcoming Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT J/DM NEWSLETTER: October 4, 1996
1996 EXECUTIVE BOARD
Barbara Mellers, President
Hal R. Arkes, President-Elect
Terry Connolly, Past President
Robyn M. Dawes, 1994-1996
Lola Lopes, 1995-1997
Elke Weber, 1996-1998
Irwin P. Levin, Secretary/Treasurer
Editor:
Shawn P. Curley
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University of Minnesota
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Dues, Addresses & Corrections:
Irwin P. Levin
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University of Iowa
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E-Mail: irwin-levin@uiowa.edu
The J/DM Newsletter welcomes submissions from individuals and groups. However, we do not publish substantive papers. Book reviews will be published. If you are interested in reviewing books and related materials, please write to the editor.
There are few ground rules for submissions. The best way to send your contribution is via EMAIL or in an ASCII file on a 3.5" or 5.25" diskette. If you must send hard-copy (e.g., if you are using special graphics or do not have computer access), please submit camera-ready copy. This means that the copy should be typed single-spaced on white 8« by 11 paper. If possible, use a carbon or film ribbon. Please mail flat -- do not fold.
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All members are urged to vote in this election for new officers. The person elected as President-Elect will serve as President-Elect (1996-1997), as President (1997-1998), and as Past President (1998-1999). The person elected to the Executive Board will serve a three-year term, 1996-1999. Current officers of the Society are listed on Page 2 of this newsletter.
President-Elect (vote for one)
_____ Irwin Levin (University of Iowa)
_____ Janet Sniezek (University of Illinois)
_____ Richard Thaler (University of Chicago)
_____ Elke Weber (Ohio State University)
Executive Board (vote for one)
_____ Jonathan Baron (University of Pennsylvania)
_____ David Budescu (University of Illinois)
_____ William Goldstein (University of Chicago)
_____ Julie Irwin (New York University)
_____ George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)
_____ Jeryl Mumpower (State University of New York)
_____ Valerie Reyna (University of Arizona)
_____ R. Scott Tindale (Loyola University of Chicago)
Please mail your completed ballots to:
(You can use the self-mailer on the back of this page.)
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Lobbying Efforts
Some years ago, the Judgment and Decision Making Society decided to join the Federation to help ensure funding in the behavioral and social sciences. We currently pay the Federation $10 per regular US member (i.e., not including students and non- US members) for lobbying efforts. Federation dues are now going up to $11 per regular US member, an amount that is more than half of our annual society dues ($20)! For some time, a number of JDM members have been voicing their concerns about the Federation and discussing alternative uses for our lobbying dollars. Because of these concerns and the recent increase in Federation dues, the JDM Board has been exploring other possibilities. One idea that we have had is to support the lobbying efforts of APS, a group that is currently not a member of the Federation, rather than supporting the Federation, at least on a trial basis. The Board supports this idea of switching to APS and paying a reduced rate. We would like to hear your views on this subject.
Unfortunately, we do not feel we can give brief summaries of the pros and cons of these alternatives because the issues are rather complex. If you are interested, we will send you materials from both the Federation and APS. Please send requests for information and/or your opinions about lobbying to Shawn Curley, Editor of the Newsletter (addresses on p. 2), and he will forward them to the JDM Board. We look forward to hearing from you!
In the August 1996 issue of ORMS Today, a publication of INFORMS, Dennis Buede surveyed a number of decision analysis software packages. This is the third survey that Dennis has done for the journal. In the article, Dennis presents information for 29 titles of decision analysis software. (The article is NOT a review.) Those who are interested but are not members of INFORMS might contact Dennis who is a member of the J/DM Society. His address: Dennis M. Buede, Department of Systems Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22091, <dbuede@mason1.gmu.edu>.
Note that the first 11" x 17" page was placed in the directory upside down. Thus, the first two pages should appear in the back of the directory, and the last two pages should go to the front of the directory. My apologies for the inconvenience of the error.
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Highlights of the Upcoming 1996 Meeting Chicago Hyatt Regency, November 2-4, 1996
(Please remember that all information provided is tentative and subject to change.)
This year's meeting promises to be exciting, informative, and of great value to those interested in all kinds of issues associated with judgment and decision making. To catch all the action, you may want to arrive as early as Friday evening since the Psychonomic Society sessions on judgment and decision making begin promptly at 8:00 am Saturday morning. (Abstracts of the papers at these sessions were not available in time for this issue; they will be included in the next issue of the JDM Newsletter.)
Also, don't forget to sign up for this year's SOCIAL EVENT. We'll be heading for the famous Second City Comedy Club on Saturday night for the 8:00 pm show!
Here are some highlights from this year's program:
VERNON SMITH
Invited Speaker
"Game Theory and Reciprocity in Extensive Form Games."
Vernon L. Smith is Regents' Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. Known as the father of experimental market economics, he is the founder of the University of Arizona's Economic Science Laboratory, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and winner of the 1995 Adam Smith Award.
CASS SUNSTEIN
Invited Speaker
Professor Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science, and Co-Director, Center on Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe. He is the author most recently of "Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict," and is a frequent contributor to "The New Republic" and "The New York Times Book Review."
HONORING THE INFLUENCE OF AMOS TVERSKY: A MEMORIAM BY HIS STUDENTS
Symposium organized by Valerie Reyna and Baruch Fischhoff
One of the many ways in which Amos Tversky profoundly influenced our field was through his mentoring of students. In this symposium, we honor the memory of Amos Tversky by describing this influence, while highlighting different aspects of Amos's life and work.
SYMPOSIUM: Effects of Task, Context, and Processing Goals on the Construction of Preferences in Judgment and Choice
Chair: Gregory Fischer
Participants:
Alan Cooke and Barbara Mellers, New Ways to Reverse Preferences Ziv Carmon and Itamar Simonson, Consumer Assessments of Value in Choice and in Matching Gregory Fischer, Dan Ariely, Ziv Carmon, & Gal Zauberman Goal-based Construction of Preferences
Discussant: Baruch Fischhoff
SYMPOSIUM: Models of Satisficing Inference
Chair: Gerd Gigerenzer
Participants:
Gerd Gigerenzer Introducing Satisficing Models of Inference and How They Affect Our Notions of Sound Reasoning and Rationality Jean Czerlinski How Accurate and Robust Are Fast and Frugal Algorithms for Making Inferences in Real-World Environments? Daniel Goldstein Recognition as a Fundamental Heuristic for Inference: How Organisms Exploit Their Own Lack of Knowledge to Make Fast and Accurate Inferences Ralph Hertwig A Satisficing Mechanism of Memory Reconstruction and How It Accounts for Hindsight Bias
SYMPOSIUM: Naturalistic Decision Making
Chair: Rebecca Pliske
Participants:
Gary Klein What Is the Naturalistic Decision Making Framework All About? Lee Beach Image Theory: Decisions in the Workplace Judith Orasanu Naturalistic Decision Making in Aviation: A Dynamic and Complex Domain Jim Shanteau NDM vs. JDM: Cooperation or Competition?
TEACHING SYMPOSIUM
Organizers: Jay Russo & Paul Schoemaker
How does teaching JDM to managers differ from teaching it to college students? Managers care about skills not credentials; they want "take aways" with immediate value; and they learn better from activities than from lectures. This session will illustrate an activity-based teaching format.
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AND SOCIAL HOUR (Sunday Evening)
Organizer: Barb DeFilippo
Wondering what you're going to do after the dissertation? Come talk to recent and not-so-recent graduates about the transitions into and opportunities in research, government, and business, as well as academia. It's a great opportunity to meet other graduate students as well!
If you are a "recent or not-so-recent graduate" and you would like to participate by sharing your experiences and views with current graduate students, please contact:
Barb DeFilippo 1523 Lawrence St. Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 342-7206barbarad@oregon.uoregon.edu
1996 EINHORN AWARD
This award, given in honor of the late Hillel Einhorn, goes to a
recently graduated scholar marking their early contribution to the
field. The award winner will present a synopsis of their recent
work.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
There will be dozens of excellent poster presentations Sunday
midday and then again Sunday evening.
SOCIAL EVENT: Second City
Don't miss our trip to the hilarious Second City Comedy
Club on Saturday evening! Space is limited, so reserve
your seat now. The cost of tickets is $15.50. To sign
up, include the amount of the ticket with your registration
fee.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
Jonathan Baron, Mark Spranca, Julia Kalmanson, & Julie Irwin
Protected Values
Terry Connolly, Lisa Ordonez, & Richard Coughlan
Regret and Responsibility in the Evaluation of Decision Outcomes
Alan Cooke
Preferences with Missing Information: Exploring the Inference Process
Ravi Dhar & Klaus Wertenbroch
Hedonic Loss Aversion and the Behavioral Economics of Pleasure
Ido Erev, Gilly Naheer, & Eran Elias
On the Decisions of Basketball Referees and the Advantage of Left-Side Offense Outside the USA
David Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Steven Johnson, & James Friedrich
Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life: A Study of Psychophysical Numbing
Charles Gettys, Michael Dougherty, & Eve Ogden
The Pieces Put Together: An Umbrella Theory for Likelihood Judgments Called MINERVA3
Oswald Huber
Win-rate and Cost of Protection in a Multistage Investment Task: Intra- vs. Inter-individual Variation
Peter Juslin & Henrik Olsson
Thurstonian and Brunswikian Origins of Uncertainty in Judgment: A Sampling Model of Confidence in Sensory Discrimination
Jonathan Leland
Decision Making by Similarity: Toward a Theory of Anomalies
George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec, & Catherine Shatto
A Visceral Account of ImpulsivityKathleen Mosier, Linda Skitka, Mark Burdick, & Susan Heers
Decision Making in a High-Tech World: Automation Bias and Countermeasures
Amnon Rapoport & Darryl Seale
Coordination Success and Adaptive Learning in Market Entry Games with Asymmetric Players
Maurice Schweitzer & Leslie Gomberg
The Impact of Alcohol on Negotiated Outcomes: Experimental Evidence
Karl Teigen
When the Unreal Is More Likely Than the Real: Post hoc Probabilities and Counterfactual Closeness
J. Frank Yates & Paul Estin
Training Good Judgment
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
1996 MEETING of the SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
Chicago Hyatt Regency
(Please remember that all information provided is tentative and
subject to change.)
SATURDAY, November 2, Grand Ballroom F
8:00 am- 9:30 am Psychonomic Society JDM Session I 9:40 am-12:00 pm Psychonomic Society JDM Session II 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm Psychonomic Society Poster Session 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Society for Judgment & Decision Making Announcements and Registration 1:30 pm- 3:40 pm Psychonomic Society JDM Session III 3:50 pm- 5:35 pm Psychonomic Society JDM Session IV 5:35 pm- 6:00 pm Society for Judgment & Decision Making Announcements and Registration 6:00 pm- 7:30 pm Psychonomic Society Poster Session (including JDM topics) 8:00 pm- ??? SOCIETY for JDM SOCIAL EVENT: Second City Comedy Club Show
SUNDAY, November 3, Comiskey Room (and Water Tower)
8:00 am- 8:30 am Registration 8:30 am-10:00 am TRIBUTE TO AMOS TVERSKY 10:00 am-10:30 am Break (with continuing registration) 10:30 am-12:15 pm Parallel sessions (2 sess. x 4 papers) 12:15 pm- 1:00 pm Lunch (Everyone's on their own.) 1:00 pm- 2:30 pm Poster Session #1 2:30 pm- 4:00 pm Parallel sessions: Satisficing Symposium Naturalistic Decision Making Symposium 4:00 pm- 4:30 pm Break 4:30 pm- 5:30 pm Invited Speaker: VERNON SMITH 5:30 pm- 7:00 pm Poster Session #2 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Grad Student symposium & social hour
MONDAY, November 3, Rooms TBA
8:00 am- 9:15 am Breakfast and Business Meeting 9:30 am-10:30 am Invited Speaker: CASS SUNSTEIN 10:30 am-11:00 am Break 11:00 am-12:15 pm Parallel sessions: Teaching Symposium Construction of Preferences Symposium 12:15 pm- 1:45 pm Lunch and Presidential Address 1:45 pm- 3:35 pm Parallel sessions (2 sess. x 4 papers)
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This form allows you to: (1) register for the November 2-4 annual meeting, (2) pay your 1997 dues, and (3) order two decision making journals for 1997 at a member discount rate. You may use the form for any one of these; but, doing all at once saves paperwork and should be more convenient for you.
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Journal Issue
A special issue of the journal Thinking and Reasoning devoted to
Social Judgment Theory is out as a double issue (Vol. 2 #2/3,
Psychology Press, 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3
2FA, UK; (0) 1273-207411; fax: (0) 1273-205612). The table of
contents:
Editorial
by Michael E. Doherty and Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Social Judgement Theory
by Michael E. Doherty and Elke M. Kurz The Methodology of Social Judgement Theory
by Ray W. Cooksey
Social Judgement Theory and Medical Judgement
by Robert S. Wigton
Expert Judgement and Expert Disagreement
by Jeryl L. Mumpower and Thomas R. Stewart Self-insight, Other-insight and Their Relation to Interpersonal Conflict
by Barbara A. Reilly
Man as a Stabiliser of Systems: From Static Snapshots of
Judgement Processes to Dynamic Decision Making
by Berndt Brehmer
Upon Reflection
by Kenneth R. Hammond
Workshop
"Modern" people have been taught to despise their feelings and put all their faith in their brain when making decisions. On the other hand, uncontrolled emotions can be a major source of irrational behavior. The "optimal" mix of intuition, emotions and rationality may cancel out the worst features of each and enhance the constructive energies of the others, to provide us with a balanced presentation of reality and of ourselves.
This is the motto of a workshop "Intuition, Emotions and Rationality: The Psychology and Art of Decision Making" which will be held at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California on April 27 - May 2, 1997. The workshop is composed of exercises, meditations, discussions and some theory sessions, and will be conducted by Yossi Yassour from the Ruppin Institute in Israel. <academic@ruppin.ac.il>
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Society for Medical Decision Making: will be at Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada, October 13-16, 1996. For information contact: Elizabeth Paine; Society for Medical Decision Making; The George Washington University; Office of CME; 2300 K Street, NW; Washington, DC 20037 USA; (202) 994-8929.
Society for Computers in Psychology: will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, October 31, 1996. For information contact: John H. Krantz, Department of Psychology, Hanover College, P.O. Box 108, Hanover, IN, 47243 USA. (812) 866- 7307, fax: (812) 866-7114, <krantzj@hanover.edu>
The Psychonomic Society: will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, November 1-3, 1996. For information contact: Roger L. Mellgren, Secretary-Treasurer, Dept of Psych, Box 19528, Univ of Texas, Arlington TX 76019-0528 USA, (817) 272-2775, fax: (817) 272-2364, <mellgren@uta.edu>
Judgment/Decision Making Society: will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, November 2-4, 1996. See inside this issue of the JDM Newsletter for program, registration, and hotel information.
International Conference on the Foundations & Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory: will be in Mons - Belgium, July 2-5, 1997. The abstract deadline is October 1, 1996. For information contact: Diana Raulier, FUR Conference, FUCAM; Chauss,e de Binche, 151; B-7000 MONS BELGIUM; +32 65 32 32 17; (fax) +32 65 31 56 91; <raulier@message.fucam.ac.be>
SPUDM-16: will be in Leeds, England, August 18-21, 1997. The abstract deadline is January 31, 1997. For information contact: John Maule; School Business/Econ Studies; Univ of Leeds; 11 Blenheim Terrace; Leeds LS2 9JT UNITED KINGDOM; 44-532 332622; (fax) 44-532 332640; <jm@bes.leeds.ac.uk>
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