The Society for Judgment and Decision Making

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of judgments and decisions. Its members include psychologists, economists, organizational researchers, decision analysts, and other decision researchers. The Society's primary event is its Annual Meeting, at which Society members present their research. It also publishes the journal Judgment and Decision Making. Information about SJDM membership is here.

SJDM/EADM Virtual Symposium January 2025

SJDM and EADM have been organizing regular joint virtual symposia, which have the goal of profiling important work on a topic of general interest to the decision making community, while also strengthening ties between the two societies. We are pleased to invite you to the fourth such symposium, to be held on January 23, 2025, on the topic of Climate Change. The symposium will take place from 7-9am PST (e.g. Los Angeles), which is 10am-noon EST (e.g. NYC), 3-5pm GMT (e.g. London), 4-6pm CET (e.g. Berlin), and 5-7pm IST (e.g. Tel Aviv).

Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/96647425213?pwd=OrtzXRJ9eB0LAbmyZlxBa1BUzflVZC.1

The schedule is as follows (all times in PST, e.g. Los Angeles):
07:00 to 07:20am: Helen Fischer - Being Right vs. Knowing when you're not: Exploring Metacognition in Climate Change.
07:20 to 07:40am: Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb - Fostering Sustainable Behavior with Interventions Targeted to Individual Motives.
07:40 to 08:00am: Breakout rooms with networking and discussion
08:00 to 09:00am: Wändi Bruine de Bruin - Communicating the Climate Crisis? The power of language and framing.

SJDM Awards

2024 Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 Best Student Poster Award winners, SJDM Best Paper Award winners, Einhorn-Hogarth New Investigator Award winners, Jane Beattie Memorial Scholarship winners and J. Frank Yates Memorial Student Travel winners!

Robin Hogarth Memorial
Robin Hogarth passed away earlier this year, and SJDM is collecting memorial donations to fund the Einhorn-Hogarth New Investigator Award. More details and donation link here.

SJDM Annual Meeting 2024

This year's Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making was held in New York City, NY, November 22-25, 2024 (Friday-Monday). The **conference program** is available. Some posters and talks from the meeting have been posted here.

SJDM DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM (VIRTUAL)

On May 13, 2024, we hosted the second annual SJDM doctoral symposium. Here is the program and recordings of each session:

Session 1. Get to know the different SJDM subcommunities
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb5bIjBsjUs
JDM is a very diverse field, with members belonging to many different subfields and disciplines (psychology, marketing, OB, policy, economics, etc.). This session featured Q&A with a panel of renowned faculty representing different subfields within the community.
Panelists: Vanessa Bohns (Cornell), David Munguia Gomez (Yale), Silvia Saccardo (CMU), Dan Schley (Erasmus)

Session 2. SJDM student poster award winning showcase
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmma9EPoDM
This session featured presentations by the winners of the SJDM student poster awards and honorable mentions from the last edition of the annual meeting.
Presenters: Tyler Fraser MacDonald (Boston U), Daniella Turetski (U Toronto), M. Leonor Neto (NYU), Olivia Fischer (University of Zurich), Roman Gallardo (U Chicago)

Session 3. SJDM Industry Collaboration Panel
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mzJnt-XQ04
This session was offered for students eager to learn about opportunities outside academic spaces, and also highlight the contributions of SJDM scholars working in industry.
Panelists: Lily Jampol (ReadySet), Emily Rosenzweig (Ascension Health), Dan Walco (Yankees), Rich Truncellito (Airbnb)

2024 Doctoral Consortium Committee (members rotate upward):
Chair: Margaret Echelbarger (through 2026)
Planning: Ioannis Evangelidis (through 2027)
Planning + Coordinating 2024 SJDM Poster Competition: Ellen Evers (through 2028)