SJDM Featured Research
This SJDM Featured Research list is designed to help scholars of judgment and decision making share their work and discover others’ work.
More information and the nomination form can be found here.
SJDM Featured Research (2026, Issue 2)
- Costello, T. H., Pelrine, K., Kowal, M., Arechar, A. A., Godbout, J.-F., Gleave, A., Rand, D., & Pennycook, G. (2026). Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.05050
– What we love about this paper is how it helps us understand the role of AI in promoting and debunking misinformation. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
- Becker, J., Almaatouq, A., & Horvát, E.-Á. (2021). Network Structures of Collective Intelligence: The Contingent Benefits of Group Discussion. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2009.07202
– What we love about this paper is how it attempts to reconcile conflicting findings on whether groups come to more or less accurate judgments than do individuals. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
- Strueder, J. D., Looi, T., Clark, P. M., Cockburn, J., & Windschitl, P. D. (2026). Optimistic Predictions Under Uncertainty: Active Information Search Both Supports and Constrains Motivated Bias [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/pm6k4_v1/
– What we love about this paper is how it digs down into the processes that enable and constrain desirability biases and wishful thinking. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
- Sun, C., Cryder, C., & Rick, S. (2025). A Co-Branding Conundrum: Consumers Underuse CoBranded Credit Cards Outside of Their Featured Brands. SSRN. https://papers.ssrn. com/abstract=4494708
– What we love about this paper is that it identifies a novel error in consumer choice and offers a compelling explanation to account for it. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
- Connolly, D. J., & Loewenstein, G. (2026). How Memory Crystallizes the Past: Memories Become More Consistent Over Time Due to Differential, Nonconstant Change. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6030316
– What we love about this paper is that it begins with uncontroversial premises and builds a simple explanation for key features of human memory. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
SJDM Featured Research (2026, Issue 1)
- Vaz, A., Ingendahl, M., Mata, A., & Alves, H. (2025). “Stop the Count!”
– How reporting partial election results fuels beliefs in election
fraud. Psychological
Science, 36(8), 676-688. [link]
- Dietvorst, B. J. (in press). Understanding people’s preferences for
predictions: People prioritize being right over minimizing how wrong they
are in expectation, Management Science. [link]
- DeKay, M. L. (in press). Risky-choice framing effects persist when
option descriptions are matched and complete: A replication and extension
of DeKay and Dou (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [link]
- Atir S. & Dunning D. A. (in press). Learning more than you can know:
Introductory education produces overly expansive self-assessments of
knowledge. Management Science. [link]
- Hagmann, D., Sajons, G. B., & Tinsley, C. H. (2025). Base rate neglect
as a source of inaccurate statistical discrimination. Management Science. [link]
SJDM Featured Research (2025, Issue 2)
- Dorison, C. A., & Charlesworth, T. E. S. (2025). What Is Rationality, Whom Is It Ascribed To, and Why Does It Matter? Evidence From Internet Text for 66 Social Groups and 101 Occupations. Psychological Science. [link]
- Pleskac, T. J., Kyung, E. J., Chapman, G. B., & Urminsky, O. (2025), Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes. Management Science. [link]
- Gaertig, C. & Simmons, J. P. (forthcoming). Why (and When) Are Uncertain Price Promotions More Effective Than Equivalent Sure Discounts? Journal of Consumer Research. [link]
- Heck, P. R., Benjamin, D. J., Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2025). Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players. Psychological Science. [link]
- Sun, C., & LeBoeuf, R. A. (2025). Prediction that conflicts with judgment: The low absolute likelihood effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [link]
- Szaszi, B., Goldstein, D. G., Dilip, S., Michie, S. (2025). Generalizability of choice architecture interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology. [link]
- Naborn, J., & Bogard, J. E. (2025). The Pick-the-Winner-Picker Heuristic: Preference for Categorically Correct Forecasts. Journal of Marketing Research. [link]
- Duckworth, A. L. et al. (2025). A national megastudy shows that email nudges to elementary school teachers boost student math achievement, particularly when personalized. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(13), e2418616122. [link]
- Maier, M., Harris, A. J., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159, 101735. [link]
- Winet, Y., & Davenport, D. (2025). Responsibility Targeting Shapes Collective Moral Judgment. [link]
- Yang, A. X., & Teow, J. (2025). Framing affects postdecision preferences through self-preference inferences (and probably not dissonance). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(2), 574–595. [link]
SJDM Featured Research (2025, Issue 1)
- Morris, A., Carlson, R.W., Kober, H., Crockett, M.J. (2025). Introspective access to
value-based multi-attribute choice processes, Nature Communications, 16, 3733. [link]
- Pink, S. L., Cervantez, J., Kirgios, E. L., Chang, E. H., Milkman, K. L. (2025). Can stereotype reactance prompt women to compete? A field experiment, Organization Science. [link]
- Hu, B., Gaertig, C., & Dietvorst, B. J. (2024). How should time estimates be structured to increase customer satisfaction?, Management Science. [link]
- Himmelstein, M., Zhu, S., Petrov, N., Karger, E., Helmer, J., Livnat, S., Bennett,
A., Hedley, P., Tetlock, P. (2025). The forecasting proficiency test: A general use assessment of forecasting ability. [link]
- Kirgios, E. L., Silver, I., & Chang, E. H. (2025) Does communicating measurable
diversity goals attract or repel historically marginalized job applicants? Evidence from
the lab and field, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [link]
- Mirny, D. J., & Spiller, S. A. (2025) Source memory is more accurate for opinions than for facts, Journal of Consumer Research. [link]
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