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 Annual Meeting 2024

This year's Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making will be held in New York City, NY, November 22-25, 2024 (Friday-Monday). Conference Registration is OPEN. (Regular registration this year is $650, or $350 for students/post-docs, until Nov 6. After Nov 6 a $100 late fee is added. Note: you must be a member of SJDM to register for the conference. You can join SJDM here. Annual membership dues are $50, or $15 for students.)

We are once again holding our conference alongside the Psychonomic Society's annual meeting at the New York Marriott Marquis. Conference hotel rates are available here. (Note that the Marriott Marquis may be fully booked, but the Sheraton New York Times Square may still have rooms available.) We currently anticipate that all presentations will be held on-site, and all presenters should plan to be present in person.

Decisions on presentation submissions were sent out via email on Tuesday Aug 20th around 3pm Pacific Time. If you submitted a presentation but did not receive a decision email, you can check the status of your submission by contacting the program committee at sjdm.conf@gmail.com or the webmaster at dhardisty@sjdm.org.



Save the dates in your calendar:
SJDM Conference: November 22-25

We're excited to see you in New York City!

Best,
Your Program Committee
Jennifer Trueblood (chair), Silvia Saccardo, and Berkeley Dietvorst

* Technical website questions can be addressed to David Hardisty (david.hardisty@sauder.ubc.ca) and all other conference related questions can be addressed to the program chair Jennifer Trueblood (jennifer.s.trueblood@gmail.com) or the entire program committee (SJDM.Conf@gmail.com).

SJDM Awards

2024 Awards
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making pleased to announce that it is currently inviting submissions for the 2024 Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award.

2023 Awards
Congratulations to the 2023 Best Poster award winners, the Einhorn award winners, the Yates award winners, the Beattie award winners, and the Best Paper award winners!

SJDM/EADM virtual symposium 2024

The symposium took place on June 13th, 2024, from 9-11am CDT (e.g. Chicago). The general topic of this symposium was “Honesty and Everyday [Im]Moral Behavior”

Links to recordings will be posted here soon.

The schedule was as follows (in CDT, e.g. Chicago):

09:00 to 09:25 am – Ori Weisel (Title: Corrupt Collaboration Around the Globe)

09:25 to 09:50 am – Valerio Capraro (Title: Corrupting the prosocial people: does cooperation framing increase bribery engagement among prosocial individuals?)

09:50 to 10:10 am -- Breakout rooms with networking and discussion

10:10 to 10:35 am -- Emma E. Levine (Title: Difficult conversations and the psychology of honesty)

10:35 to 11:00 am – Q&A and discussion

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)