J/DM 1997 schedule

November 22 - 24
Marriott Hotel, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
(215) 625-2900, (215) 625-6101 (faxed reservations)

Abstracts of posters are available in RTF or html format.

Saturday November 22

12:00 - 1:30
Psychonomics poster session III (Grand Ballroom G/H)
1:30 - 3:15
Psychomics judgment and decision making I (Salon F)
1:30 - 1:50
Measuring the future
Stephen W. Link (McMaster)
1:55 - 2:15
Context effects on ideal point preferences
Douglass H. Wedell, Jonathan C. Pettibone, & Stuart M. Senter (U of S. Carolina)
2:20 - 2:35
Combining judgments: Weighting our own opinions more than others'
Ilan Yaniv & Eli Kleinberger (Hebrew U)
2:40 - 2:55
Judgmental combination of forecasts: Effects of feedback type
Nigel Harvey & Ilan Fischer (University College, London)
3:00 - 3:10
Explicit decisions, personal policies, and self-control
Gretchen B. Chapman (Rutgers)
3:30 - 5:25
Psychonomics judgment and decision making II (Salon F)
3:30 - 3:50
Comments on five new perspectives on judgment/decision making
James Shanteau (Kansas State)
3:55 - 4:15
Separating judgment from response process in statement verification
Thomas W. Wallsten (UNC), Randall H. Bender (U of Illinois), & Yeu-lin Li (Columbia)
4:20 - 4:35
Stimulus structure and causal judgments
Albert F. Smith, Nadine M. Meyers, & Portia T. Rivera (Cleveland State)
4:40 - 5:00
Understanding valence framing effects: The good, the bad, and the ... risky?
Sandra L. Schneider & Monica D. Barnes (U of S. Florida)
5:05 - 5:20
Grammatical choice and affective experience in a second-language test
Marta Balasko & Michel Cabanac (U of Laval)
5:30 - 6:00
J/DM registration and reception
6:00 - 7:30
Psychonomics poster session IV and hospitality (Grand Ballroom G/H)
TBA
J/DM board dinner and meeting
8:00
J/DM social event at Franklin Institute Science Museum
(For information on the Psychonomics program, see http://www.sig.net/~psysoc/meet.htm)

Sunday November 23

8:30 - 9:00
Registration, coffee & danish
9:00 - 10:00
Invited address: Paul Rozin, Univ. of Penn, "Sympathetic Magical Thinking"
10:00 - 10:20
Break
10:20 - 12:00
Parallel sessions
Session A: Oral presentations
Chair: Maurice Schweitzer
A1 10:20
The cultural boundaries of trust and reciprocity in economic bargaining
Nancy R. Buchan (U Wisconsin), Eric J. Johnson (U Penn), & Rachel T.A. Croson (U Penn)
A2 10:45
Contextual effects of payment mechanism on purchase intention: Check or charge?
Dilip Soman (Univ of Colorado at Boulder)
A3 11:10
Modeling the combined effects of assimilation and contrast processes in a consumer judgment task
Irwin P. Levin (U Iowa) & Aron M Levin (Washburn U)
A4 11:35
The sunk cost effect: Are humans less rational then lower animals?
Peter Ayton (City University) & Hal Arkes (Ohio Univ)
Session B: Oral presentations
Chair: Ilana Ritov
B1 10:20
GET: A goals/effort tradeoff model of decision making in the design of scientific experiments
Christian D. Schunn & David Klahr (CMU)
B2 10:45
Decision field theory for decision trees
Jerome R. Busemeyer, Eythan wed, & Zhengpin Ma (Purdue and Indiana U.)
B3 11:10
Asymmetric support theory: Focus, figure, and ground in likelihood judgments
Lyle Brenner (UCLA) & Yuval Rottenstreich (Cal Tech)
B4 11:35
An investigation of the relative effectiveness of vertical and horizontal command structures in a distributed dynamic decision task
Mary M. Omodei (La Trobe U) & Alexander J. Wearing (U Melbourne)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch break (on your own)
1:00 - 2:30
Poster session I (Grand Ballroom G/H)
2:30 - 4:00
Parallel sessions
Session A: Symposium
One judgment and decision society? Or two? Drift, or judgment and decision
Organizer: Kenneth R. Hammond (U Colorado)
Char: Hal Arkes (Ohio U)
Participants:
  • Barbara Mellers
  • Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Terry Connolly
Session B: Symposium
Tradeoffs and values: Honoring the memory of Jane Beattie
Organizer: Jonathan Baron (U Penn)
Chair: Elke Weber (Ohio State)
B1
Tradeoffs among attributes: Understanding relative importance
William Goldstein (U Chicago), Sema Barlas, & Jane Beattie
B2
Better safe then sorry? Feedback, regret, and decision making
Marcel Zeelenberg (Eindhover) & Jane Beattie
B3
Designing computerized decision support tools to overcome tradeoff resistance and decision aversion
Mark Spranca (Rand)
B4
Further investigations of the effects of stimulus range on attribute weight
Jonathan Baron (Penn) & Jane Beattie
4:00 - 4:30
Break
4:30 - 5:30
Invited speaker: Edmund Fantino, UCSD
"A Behavioral Approach to Decision Making"
5:30 - 7:00
Poster session II (Grand Ballroom G/H)
7:00 - 7:30
Optional fun talk: Maya Bar-Hillel, Hebrew Univ.
Have you heard of the much heralded best seller, The Bible Code? Astonishingly enough, this book, claiming the existence of a secret code in the Bible which allows the foretelling of the future, is based on a paper which was authored by a famous Israeli mathematician, published in the peer reviewed journal Statistical Science, after having been refereed by some of the world's leading statisticians. Is there indeed a secret code in the bible? Maya will present the statistical proof given in that paper, as well as the results of an investigation carried out by herself and some mathematician colleagues, which refutes this proof. A fascinating story of statistical sleuthing and hints of a possible hoax.

Monday November 24

8:00 - 9:00
Business meeting & continental breakfast (Salon A/B)
9:00 - 10:40
Parallel sessions
Session A: Oral Presentations (Salon A/B)
Chair: Lehman Benson III
A1 9:00
Constructing stable preferences: A look into dimensions of experience and their impact on preference stability
Steve Hoeffler & Dan Ariely (Duke)
A2 9:25
The constructive nature of subjective differences in judgment and choice
John H. Wright (U Chicago)
A3 9:50
Planned versus incidental decision making
Dan Zakay and Orit Reiter (Tel Aviv Univ)
A4 10:15
On the making of an experience: The effects of breaking and combining experiences on their overall evaluation
Dan Ariely & Gal Zauberman (Duke)
Session B: Oral presentations (Salon C)
Chair: Lisa Ordonez
B1 9:00
Priorities in health care: Four principles derived from psychological research
Robyn M. Dawes (CMU)
B2 9:25
Information sharing and integration in multifunctional decision making groups
John E. Sawyer, U Delaware
B3 9:50
Low-involvement learning: Repetition and coherence in familiarity and belief
Scott A. Hawkins (U Toronto), Stephen J. Hoch (U Penn), & Joan Meyers-Levy (U Chicago)
B4 10:15
A Bayesian network model of causal learning
Michael Waldmann & Laura Martignon (Max Planck Inst)
10:40 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:30
Parallel sessions
Session A: Symposium
Information flow in groups (Salon A/B)
Organizer: Janet Sniezek (U Illinois)
A1
The common knowledge effect
Daniel Gigone (Duke) & Reid Hastie (U Colorado)
A2
Influences on information sharing
James R. Larson (U Illinois at Chicago)
A3
Insights from process data
Lucia Savadori, Janet Sniezek, & Lyn Van Swol (U Illinois)
A4
The Information Sampling Model
Gerald L. Stasser (Miami U)
Session B: Symposium
Procedures for distinguishing utility theories (Salon C)
Organizer: Michael Birnbaum
B1
Mixed gains and losses: Comparing two models
Robert Sneddon & R. Duncan Luce (UC Irvine)
B2
Tests that compare rank- and sign-dependent utility theories against other configural eight theories
Michael H. Birnbaum (Calif State U)
B3
Economic life beyond expected utility theory: Generalizations and applications
Colin Camerer (Cal Tech)
B4
Reasons for rank-dependent utility evaluation
Elke U. Weber, Barbara A. Mellers, & Tanya Metzger (Ohio State)
12:30 - 2:00
Presidential address and luncheon (Salon F): Can humans use tools? The use and non-use of (J/DM) tools in Washington. Hal Arkes (Ohio U)
2:00 - 3:40
Parallel session
Session A: Symposium
Judgment and decision making biases: A developmental perspective (Salon A/B)
Organizer: Jan Jacobs (Penn State)
Presenters:
  • Valerie Reyna (U Arizona)
  • Paul Klaczynski (Western Carolina U)
  • James Byrnes (U Maryland)
  • Denise Davidson (Loyola U, Chicago)
Session B: Oral Presentations (Salon C)
B1 2:00
"At least I tried": Emotional amplification after inaction
Marcel Zeelenberg, Kees van den Bos, & Eric Van Dijk (Eindhoven Univ. Of Technology)
B2 2:25
Expected feelings about risky options
Alan Schwartz (U Ill Chicago)
B3 2:50
The methodological framework for multiple-values decision making theory and practice
John Kadvany, Applied Decision Analysis
B4 3:15
"Hard" decisions
J. Frank Yates & Elizabeth S. Veinott (U Michigan)
3:40
Adjourn