SJDM

This page serves as a historical archive for the Society.

By-Laws:
You can read the by-laws of SJDM here in PDF format.


Past Annual Meetings:
You can download the meeting programs and poster abstracts for past meetings here.
2009:  Program Posters SJDM/MDM Videos
2008:  Program Posters SJDM/MDM Videos
2007:  Program Posters
2006:  Program Posters
2005:  Program
2004:  Program Posters
2003:  Program Posters
2002:  Program with Posters
2001:  Program with Posters
2000:  Program Posters
1999:  Program
1998:  Program Posters
1997:  Program Posters
1996:  Program


Past SJDM Presidents:

James C. Shanteau 1986-1987
Kenneth R. Hammond 1987-1988
Robyn M. Dawes 1988-1989
Lola L. Lopes 1989-1990
Baruch Fischhoff 1990-1991
Robin M. Hogarth 1991-1992
Daniel Kahneman 1992-1993
J. Frank Yates 1993-1994
Terry Connolly 1994-1995
Barbara Mellers 1995-1996
Hal R. Arkes 1996-1997
Elke Weber 1997-1998
Irwin P. Levin 1998-1999
Thomas Wallsten 1999-2000
David Budescu 2000-2001
George Loewenstein 2001-2002
Josh Klayman 2002-2003
Eric Johnson 2003-2004
Maya Bar-Hillel 2004-2005
John Payne 2005-2006
Jon Baron 2006-2007
Michael Birnbaum 2007-2008
Dan Ariely 2008-2009
Valerie Reyna 2009-2010

Past SJDM Secretary/Treasurers:
(including service prior to the formal establishment of SJDM in 1986)

Gary McClelland 1981-1985
Stephen Edgell 1986-1989
Gary McClelland 1990
Terry Connolly 1991-1993
Irwin Levin 1994-1996
Colleen Moore 1997-1999
Sandra Schneider 2000-2002
Bud Fennema 2003-

Past SJDM Newsletter Editors:
(including service prior to the formal establishment of SJDM in 1986)

John Castellan 1981-1991
Shawn Curley 1992-1999
Steve Edgell 2000-2003
Warren Thorngate 2003-2006
Dan Goldstein 2006-


Einhorn Award:
Every even year, SJDM awards the Hillel Einhorn Award to the best paper by a young investigator. The winner is announced at the annual meeting, and invited to present the winning paper. The winner is determined by committee appointed by the Executive Board of SJDM. The committee announces the eligibility criteria and the relevant deadlines in the SJDM newsletter and on the SJDM website a few months before the annual meeting.

Past winners of the award and titles of the winning papers:

1988George Loewenstein Loewenstein, G. (1988). Frames of mind in intertemporal choice. Management Science, 34, 200-214.
1990Yechiel Klar Klar, Y. (1990). Linking structures and sensitivity to judgment-relevant information in statistical and logical tasks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 841-858.
1992Eldar Shafir Shafir, E. Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are bothbetter and worse than others.
1994Craig McKenzie McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). The accuracy of intuitive judgmentstrategies: Covariation assessment and Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 209-239.
1996Michael Morris and Richard Larrick Morris, M. W., & Larrick, R. P. (1995). When one cause casts doubt onanother: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution. Psychological Review, 102, 331-355.
1998Michael Dougherty Dougherty. M. Minerva-DM: A memory processes model for judgmentsof likelihood
2000Dan Ariely and Jonathan Levav Ariely, D., & Levav, Y.. (2000), Sequential Choice in Group Settings: Taking the Road Less Traveled and Less Enjoyed. Journal of Consumer Research, 27 (3) 279-290
2002Robyn LeBoeuf Identity-based choice and preference inconsistency
2004Joseph Johnson Johnson, J. G., & Busemeyer, J. R. (2005). A dynamic, stochastic, computational model of preference reversal phenomena. Psychological Review, 112, 841-861.
2006Neil Stewart Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G. D. A. (2006). Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology, 53, 1-26.
2007Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Anouk S. Schneider, Greg Detre VAMP (Voting Agent Model of Preferences): A Computational Model of Individual Multi-attribute Choice
2008Tim Pleskac Pleskac, T. J. (2008). Decision making and learning while taking sequential risks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34, 167-185.

Best Student Poster Award:
The Best Student Poster Award recognizes the outstanding poster authored by a students member of the society at the annual meeting. Posters are judged by an ad-hoc committee according to predefined criteria.

Past winners and runners up:

1998Winner: Mandeep Dhami with Peter Ayton Legal Decision Making the Fast and Frugal Way
First Runner up: Christine M. Caffray with Sandra L. Schneider and Michele Devaux Guessing Who You Are by Your Handwriting: Prototypicality Helps Accuracy but Not Confidence
Second Runner up: Ryan B. Opel with Eric R. Stone Developing Accuracy in Probability Judgments: The Distinction Between Calibration and Substantive Expertise
1999Winner: Barbara Fasolo with Gary McClelland Tracing Decision Processes on the Web
First Runner up: Mara Mather with Eldar Shafir and Marcia Johnson Memory for Choices We made Vs. Choices Others Made for Us
Second Runner up: Alan Sanfrey with Reid Hastie /td> A Comparative Strength Model for Judgment
2000Winner: Robyn LeBoeuf with Eldar Shafir Anchoring in Time Estimation Tasks
First Runner up: Matt Jones with Winston R. Sieck The Advantage of Bias Towards Reliance on Recent Events: Evidence from Judgment in Autocorrelated Ecologies
Second Runner up: Dean Yoshizumi with Irwin Levin Written Probability Gambles are More Certain Than Graphical Displays
2001Winner: Daniel Oppenheimer with Barbara TverskyImplications of a voting theory framework for decision making
First Runner up: Lisa Kath with Jim HolzworthUsing social judgment theory to compare court rulings and layperson judgments of real sexual harassment court cases
Second Runner up: Deborah Small with George LoewensteinHelping 'THE' victim or helping 'A' victim: Altruism and identifiability
2002 Winner: Liat Hadar with Ilan Fischer Perception, processing, and de-biasing of vague probabilities
First runner up: Bonnie Sonnenschein with Peter Shizgal Tests of the peak-and-end model of retrospective evaluation in laboratory rats responding for brain stimulation
Second runner up: Candy Fong with Dilip Soman Something more than reciprocity: Relationship accounting
2003 Winner: Chuck Tate with Bertram Malle Mental simulation of the future: An explanation-based account
First runner up: Aaron Reid with Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Brent Funderburk Quantifying central-route persuasion effects in consumer product tradeoffs
Second runner up: Jen Shang with Rachel Croson Social comparison and public goods provision in the field
2004 Winner: An Oskarsson with Reid Hastie, Gary McClelland, and Leaf Van Boven Prediction and generation of sequences
First runner up: Crystal Hall with Alexander Todorov When more information is less: The illusion of knowledge in the prediction of uncertain events
Second runner up: Hannah Faye Chua with Frank Yates and Priti Shah Risk avoidance: Pictures versus numbers
2005 Winner: Eran Magen with James Gross TV or not TV: Changing the Reward Value of Temptation through Cognitive Re-Construal
First runner up: Laura Smarandescu with Douglas Wedell and Randall Rose Two Peas in a Pod: Attribute Mutability in Across-Category Product Associations
Carey Morewedge with Michael Berkovits, Boaz Keysar, and Daniel Gilbert Hedonic Invisibility: Spreading Small Gains Too Thin
2006 Winner: Jeff Galak with Leif Nelson Complexity is Good: When Disfluent Communication Signals Author Erudition
Runner up: Samuel Bond Feeling vs. Knowing: A Dual-Systems Approach to Risky Choice
2nd runner up: Michael Luchs with Rebecca Naylor, Julie Irwin, and Rajagopal Raghunathan Is There an Expected Trade-off Between a Product's Ethical Value and Its Effectiveness?
2007 Winner: Christopher Olivola with Stephanie Wang Patience Auctions: Using Novel Auction Mechanisms to Elicit Discount Rates Under Time or Money Framing
Runner up: Benjamin Scheibehenne with Jörg Rieskamp and Claudia González-Vallejo Comparing the decision field theory with the proportional difference model for decisions under risk
2nd runner up: Edward Cokely with Colleen Kelley Mechanisms of Superior Judgment Under Uncertainty: Rational Choices from Simple Heuristics and Elaborative Strategie
2008 Winner: Maria Anderson with Tommy Gärling Majority and minority influences in simulated financial markets
Runner up: Emily Waldum with Lili Sahakyan The positive time order and its relationship with memory and context
2nd runner up: Paul Litvak with Carey Morewedge Eating to even: How retail and sunk costs influence the consumption of bulk goods
2009 Winner: Abigail B. Sussman, with Christopher Olivola Axing the taxman: The psychology of tax aversion
Runner up: Uriel Haran, with Don A. Moore, & Carey K. Morewedge A simple remedy for overprecision in judgment
2nd runner up: Teresa Gavaruzzi, with Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Peter Ubel, & Angela Fagerlin One decision at a time or the whole path at once? When the way information is provided affect prostate cancer decision making

John Castellan Service Award:
The John Castellan SJDM Service Award is named after the first Newsletter Editor of the society. It is given following special recommendation of the Executive Board and it honors individuals who have given significant service to the society.

Recipients of the award:

John Castellan1993
James Shanteau1996
Chuck Gettys1996
Steve Edgell1997
Alan Schwartz2000
Alan Cooke2000
Shawn Curley2000

Publications Committee

John Payne, through 2009
Gretchen Chapman, through 2011
Derek Koehler (chair), through 2013

Einhorn Award Committee

Dan Ariely, through 2008
Craig McKenzie, 2009
Ann Bostrom, 2010

Photos and videos
Social, 2004
Joint SJDM/MDM symposia


Minutes of Board/Business Meetings:
(Members only)


Web page maintained by Jonathan Baron; image by Gaëlle Villejoubert.