SJDM History

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.

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

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:

1988 George Loewenstein Loewenstein, G. (1988). Frames of mind in intertemporal choice. Management Science, 34, 200-214.
1990 Yechiel 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.
1992 Eldar Shafir Shafir, E. Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are both better and worse than others.
1994 Craig McKenzie McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). The accuracy of intuitive judgment strategies: Covariation assessment and Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 209-239.
1996 Michael Morris and Richard Larrick Morris, M. W., & Larrick, R. P. (1995). When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution. Psychological Review, 102, 331-355.
1998 Michael Dougherty Dougherty. M. Minerva-DM: A memory processes model for judgments of likelihood
2000 Dan 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
2002 Robyn LeBoeuf Identity-based choice and preference inconsistency
2004 Joseph Johnson Johnson, J. G., & Busemeyer, J. R. (2005). A dynamic, stochastic, computational model of preference reversal phenomena. Psychological Review, 112, 841-861.
2006 Neil Stewart Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G. D. A. (2006). Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology, 53, 1-26.
2007 Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Anouk S. Schneider, Greg Detre VAMP (Voting Agent Model of Preferences): A Computational Model of Individual Multi-attribute Choice

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 a committee appointed by the Executive Board, according to
five criteria:

  1. Presentation and organization of data/results
  2. Methodological quality
  3. Appropriateness of interpretation
  4. Significance/importance of contribution
  5. Originality

Past winners and runners up:

1998 Winner: 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
1999 Winner: 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
2000 Winner: 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
2001 Winner: Daniel Oppenheimer with Barbara Tversky Implications of a voting theory framework for decision making
First Runner up: Lisa Kath with Jim Holzworth Using social judgment theory to compare court rulings and layperson judgments of real sexual harassment court cases
Second Runner up: Deborah Small with George Loewenstein Helping '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

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 Castellan 1993
James Shanteau 1996
Chuck Gettys 1996
Steve Edgell 1997
Alan Schwartz 2000
Alan Cooke 2000
Shawn Curley 2000

Publications Committee

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

Minutes of Board/Business Meetings:

2007 Board meeting
Business meeting
2006 Board meeting
Business meeting