Decision Making Focus Group
The Decision Making Focus Group meets every other week for discussions about published articles of interest to decision making researchers (which will be distributed in advance), or projects in progress that are related to judgment and decision making, broadly defined.
Beginning Fall 2011, we will meet alternate Wednesdays at noon, starting Wednesday September 28th. We will usually meet in Straub 143 (but may occasionally meet at Decision Research, at Oak & 12th, with advance warning). Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Please send Josh Weller (jweller@decisionresearch.org) an email if you would like to be added to the email list announcing meetings and topics. Reminder: all focus group members shall be general members of the ICDS. Membership in the ICDS is available to interested faculty, students, and community members. For consideration, send a brief letter of request and a curriculum vita via email, or by post.
Upcoming meetings…
Next meeting, May 2, 2012, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. This week, we will be discussing some interesting work on cultural cognition and how it relates to risk.
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn’t, and Why?
An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition
ABSTRACT: The cultural cognition thesis holds that individuals
form risk perceptions that reflect their commitments
to contested views of the good society. We conducted a
study that used the dispute over mandatory HPV vaccination
to test the cultural cognition thesis. Although public health
officials have recommended that all girls aged 11 or 12 be
vaccinated for HPV—a sexually transmitted virus that
causes cervical cancer—political controversy has blocked
adoption of mandatory school-enrollment vaccination programs
in all but one state. An experimental study of a large
sample of American adults (N = 1,538) found that cultural
cognition generates disagreement about the risks and benefits
of the vaccine through two mechanisms: biased
assimilation, and the credibility heuristic. We discuss theoretical
and practical implications.
As always, the DMFG meets at noon in Straub 143.
See you on Wednesday
Previously…..
April 4th, 2012, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. For the first DMFG meeting, we will be starting off with a provocative article by Hank Greeley, entitled “Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy.” I think that the article raises some very interesting and debatable points at the intersection of Decision making and public policy.
As always, DMFG meets on Wednesday, at noon in Straub 143. This quarter we have the “odd” weeks, same as last quarter.
Hope to see you there.
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March 7th, 2012 Ulrich Mayr, Psychology, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. Lynn Kahle, Marketing
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. Shalvi et al. article “People Avoid Situations that Enable them to Deceive Others” Link to paper.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. Well, the new quarter is upon us, and it is time to get the Decision Making Focus Group back into action! Please come to our first meeting, this Wednesday, in Straub 143 from 12-1p. It will be an organizational meeting to set forth an agenda for the term. Hope to see you there!
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall. Reading: LeBoeuf, R. A., & Norton, M. (in press). Consequence-cause matching: Looking to the consequences of events to infer their causes. Journal of Consumer Research. This article documents a bias in people’s causal inferences, showing that people nonnormatively consider an event’s consequences when inferring its causes. Across experiments, participants’ inferences about event causes were systematically affected by how similar (in both size and valence) those causes were to event consequences, even when the consequences were objectively uninformative about the causes. For example, people inferred that a product failure (computer crash) had a large cause (widespread computer virus) if it had a large consequence (job loss) but that the identical failure was more likely to have a smaller cause (cooling fan malfunction) if the consequence was small—even though the consequences gave no new information about what caused the crash. This “consequence-cause matching,” which can affect product attitudes, may arise because people are motivated to see the world as predictable and because matching is an accessible schema that helps them to fulfill this motivation. Link to paper.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12:00 PM, 143 Straub Hall Organizational meeting.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2011 Decision Making Docus Group social event
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Galak, J., Kruger, J., & Loewenstein, G. (2011). Is variety the spice of life? It all depends on the rate of consumption. Jundgment and Decision Making, 6, 230-238.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Quoidbach, J. & Dunn, E.W. (2010). Personality neglect: The unforeseen impact of personal dispositions on emotional life. Psychological Science, 21, 1783-1786.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Sunstein, C.R. (Winter 2002-2003). The paralyzing principle. Regulation, 32-37. Thaler, R.H. & Sunstein, C.R. Libertarian paternalism. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 93, 175-179.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Presentation by Ezra Markowitz: “Looking back to think ahead: Intergenerational reciprocity in the face of future climate change.”
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Presentation by Josh Weller
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Presentation by Sara Hodges & Nicole Lawless: “Projection in interactions: Surprising result and future directions.”
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Kim, J., Natter, M., & Spann, M. (2009). Pay what you want: A new participative pricing mechanism. Journal of Marketing, 73, 44-58.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 No meeting
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Schuldt, J.P., & Schwarz, N. (2010). The “organic” path to obesity? Organic claims influence calorie judgments and exercise recommendations. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 144-150.