Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Society for Judgment and Decision Making
This page serves as a historical archive for the Society, including conference programs, newsletters, officers, and award winners.
Memorabilia
Some early founders
of SJDM, at a predecessor meeting
Social, 2004
Joint SJDM/MDM symposia
Tribute to Duncan Luce, November 2013
Audio recording (m4a) of Leif Nelson's
interview of Danny Kahneman (2015)
Tribute to Paul Slovic (2015)
Tribute to
Baruch Fischhoff (2016)
Past Annual Meetings
You can download the meeting programs and poster abstracts for
past meetings here.
2025:
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2024:
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2023:
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2022:
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2021:
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2020:
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High Level Version
2019:
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2018:
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2017:
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2015:
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2014:
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2013:
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2012:
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2011:
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2010:
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2009:
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SJDM/MDM Videos
2008:
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SJDM/MDM Videos
2007:
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2006:
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2005:
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Past Doctoral Symposia
2026:
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2025:
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Recording
2024:
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, Recordings:
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
2023:
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Presentation Slides and Posters
Some members have provided a PDF of their slides and posters from SJDM meetings, which you can find
here
If you would like to upload your own slides or poster for an SJDM meeting, please do so
here
Mailing list archives (from 1994)
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SJDM Presidents
Jennifer Trueblood
2025-2026
Don Moore
2024-2025
Joe Simmons
2023-2024
Abigail Sussman
2022-2023
Suzanne Shu
2021-2022
Danny Oppenheimer
2020-2021
Katy Milkman
2019-2020
Nina Mazar
2018-2019
Chris Hsee
2017-2018
Rick Larrick
2016-2017
Dan Goldstein
2015-2016
Ellen Peters
2014-2015
Gretchen Chapman
2013-2014
Craig Fox
2012-2013
George Wu
2011-2012
Eldar Shafir
2010-2011
Valerie Reyna
2009-2010
Dan Ariely
2008-2009
Michael Birnbaum
2007-2008
Jon Baron
2006-2007
John Payne
2005-2006
Maya Bar-Hillel
2004-2005
Eric Johnson
2003-2004
Josh Klayman
2002-2003
George Loewenstein
2001-2002
David Budescu
2000-2001
Thomas Wallsten
1999-2000
Irwin P. Levin
1998-1999
Elke Weber
1997-1998
Hal R. Arkes
1996-1997
Barbara Mellers
1995-1996
Terry Connolly
1994-1995
J. Frank Yates
1993-1994
Daniel Kahneman
1992-1993
Robin M. Hogarth
1991-1992
Baruch Fischhoff
1990-1991
Lola L. Lopes
1989-1990
Robyn M. Dawes
1988-1989
Kenneth R. Hammond
1987-1988
James C. Shanteau
1986-1987
Past SJDM Secretary/Treasurers
(including service prior to the formal establishment of SJDM in 1986)
Bud Fennema
2003-
Sandra Schneider
2000-2002
Colleen Moore
1997-1999
Irwin Levin
1994-1996
Terry Connolly
1991-1993
Gary McClelland
1990
Stephen Edgell
1986-1989
Gary McClelland
1981-1985
Past SJDM Newsletter Editors
(including service prior to the formal establishment of SJDM in 1986)
Dan Goldstein
2006-
Warren Thorngate
2003-2006
Steve Edgell
2000-2003
Shawn Curley
1992-1999
John Castellan
1981-1991
Einhorn-Hogarth Award
Every year, SJDM awards the Einhorn-Hogarth 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:
2025
Kristen Duke
"Beyond Yes or No: How Choice Architecture Drives Financial Program Enrollment in the Lab and in the Field”
Lukas Mertes and Pascal Kieren
"Information Partitioning, Learning, and Beliefs”
Runner up: Amanda Geiser and Ike Silver
"Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions”
2024
Michael Kardas
"Unnecessarily Divided: Civil Conversations Reduce Attitude Polarization More Than People Expect"
Runner up: Matt Meister
"Consumers Believe Star Ratings Are Comparable Even When They Are Not"
2023
Eitan Rude
"People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice"
Runner up: Ariel Fridman
"Dominance Effects in the Wild"
Runner up: Indira Puri
"Simplicity and Risk"
2022
Diag Davenport and Yuji K. Winet
"Pivotal Voting: The Opportunity To Tip Group Decisions Skews Juries and Other Voting Outcomes"
Runner up: Wenjia Joyce Zhao
"Computational Mechanisms For Context-Based Behavioral Interventions: A Large-Scale Analysis"
2021
Ori Plonsky
Plonsky, Ori, Chen, Daniel L. and Netzer, Liat and Steiner, Talya and Feldman, Yuval "Best to Be Last: Serial Position Effects in Legal Decisions in the Field and in the Lab"
2020
Kristin Donnelly
"Time Periods Feel Longer When They Span More Category Boundaries: Evidence From the Lab and the Field"
Runner up: Celia Gaertig & Robert Mislavsky
2019
Joshua Lewis
Joshua Lewis & Joseph P. Simmons, "Prospective Outcome Bias: Incurring (Unnecessary) Costs to Achieve Outcomes That Are Already Likely"
2018
Asa Palley
Asa Palley and Jack Soll. Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds When Information is Shared.
2017
Theresa F. Kelly
Theresa F. Kelly and Joseph Simmons. When does making detailed predictions make predictions worse?
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145 (October), pp. 1298-1311.
Runner up: Patrick Bodilly Kane
Kane, P. and S. Broomell (2017) “Detecting Systematic Errors in Forecasting
with Kernel Smoothers: Evidence for Environmental Noise Propagation,”
2016
Minah H. Jung and Hannah Perfecto
Minah H. Jung, Hanna Perfecto and Leif D. Nelson. Anchoring in payment: Evaluating
a judgmental heuristic in field experimental settings. Journal of Marketing Research (2015), 53(3), 354-368.
Runner up: Alice Moon
The uncertain value of uncertainty: When consumers are unwilling to pay for what they like. (submitted).
Runner up: Cary Frydman and Gideon Nave
Cary Frydman and Gideon Nave. Extrapolative beliefs in perceptual and economic decisions:
Evidence of a common mechanism. Management Science (forthcoming).
2015
Molly Crockett
Crockett, M. J., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Siegel, J. Z., Dayan, P., & Dolan, R. J. (2014).
Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111
(48), 17320-17325
Runner up: Florian Zimmermann
Enke, Benjamin, and Florian Zimmermann. "Correlation neglect in belief formation."
Runner up: Luxi Shen
Shen, Luxi, Ayelet Fishbach, and Christopher K. Hsee. The Motivating-Uncertainty Effect: Uncertainty Increases Resource Investment in the Process of Reward Pursuit. Journal of Consumer Research 41.5 (2015): 1301-1315.
2014
Alex Imas
Imas, A. (2014).
The realization effect: Risk-taking after realized versus paper losses.
2013
Sudeep Bhatia
Associations and the accumulation of preference. Psychological Review (2013).
doi: 10.1037/a0032457
Runner up: Jennifer Trueblood
Trueblood, J. S., Brown, S. D., & Heathcote, A. (2013).
The Multi-attribute Linear Ballistic
Accumulator Model of Context Effects in Multi-alternative Choice.
2012
Christopher Olivola
Olivola, C. Y., & Shafir, E. (2011). The martyrdom effect: When pain and effort
increase prosocial contributions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.767
Runner up: Ed O'Brien
Emotional pasts and rational futures: A redistribution of mind over
time. (Unpublished in 2012, but later published in
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 624-638, with a different title).
2011
Kanchan Mukherjee
Mukherjee, K. (2010). A dual system model of
preferences under risk. Psychological Review, 117(1), 243-255.
Runner up: Daniel Bartels & Oleg Urminsky
Bartels, D. M., & Urminsky, O. (2011). On intertemporal selfishness: How the
perceived instability of identity underlies impatient consumption. The Journal of
Consumer Research, 38(1), 182-198. doi: 10.1086/658339
Runner up: Shoham Choshen-Hillel
Choshen-Hillel, S., & Yaniv, I. (in press). Agency and the construction of social
preference: Between inequality aversion and prosocial behavior. Journal of
Personality & Social Psychology
Runner up: Christopher Olivola
Olivola, C. Y., & Shafir, E. (in press). The martyrdom effect: When pain and effort
increase prosocial contributions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Runner up: Anuj Shah
Shah, A. K., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2011). Grouping Information for Judgments.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1037/A0021946
2010
Stefan Herzog
Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2009). The wisdom of many in one mind: Improving individual judgments with dialectical bootstrapping. Psychological Science, 20, 231–237.
2009
Evan Polman
Polman, E. (2009). Differences in making choices for the self versus for others: A reversal of the choice overload effect.
[Polman, E. (2012). Effects of self-other decision making on regulatory
focus and choice overload.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
102
, 980-993.]
2008
Tim Pleskac
Pleskac, T. J. (2008). Decision making and learning while taking
sequential risks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,
& Cognition, 34, 167-185.
2007
Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Anouk S. Schneider, Greg Detre
VAMP (Voting Agent Model of Preferences): A Computational Model of Individual Multi-attribute Choice
2006
Neil Stewart
Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G. D. A. (2006). Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology, 53, 1-26.
2004
Joseph Johnson
Johnson, J. G., & Busemeyer, J. R. (2005). A dynamic, stochastic, computational model of preference reversal phenomena. Psychological Review, 112, 841-861.
2002
Robyn LeBoeuf
Identity-based choice and preference inconsistency
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
1998
Michael Dougherty
Dougherty. M. Minerva-DM: A memory processes model for judgmentsof likelihood
1996
Michael 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.
1994
Craig McKenzie
McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). The accuracy of intuitive judgmentstrategies: Covariation assessment and Bayesian inference.
Cognitive Psychology
, 26, 209-239.
1992
Eldar Shafir
Shafir, E. Choosing versus rejecting: Why some options are bothbetter and worse than others.
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.
1988
George Loewenstein
Loewenstein, G. (1988). Frames of mind in intertemporal choice.
Management Science
, 34, 200-214.
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
Winners and runners up:
2025
1st place: Max Spohn, Harvard University
Barriers to Evidence Adoption: A Conjoint Analysis
2nd place: Lauren S. Treiman, Washington University
Pairwise comparisons explain the decoy effect
Hon. mention: Linnea Gandhi, University of Pennsylvania
How well does the literature on behavioral interventions generalize? An empirical test
Hon. mention: Michelle Lee, University of Melbourne
Improving Life Insurance Decisions: The Role of Calculators
Hon. mention: Qingyang Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Overinvesting in Cash Cows: People Ignore the Opportunity for Growth in Resource Allocations
2024
1st place: Shelly Tsang, University of Virginia
Evaluations of what is a good
or bad use of time
2nd place: Maué Pantoja, University of Zurich
A Meta-Analysis Synthesizing 20
Years of Evidence on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)
Hon. mention: Ty Longmire-Monford, Leeds School of Business
No Logo: The Effect of Brand Attribution on Partisan News Consumption
Hon. mention: Raina Zhang, New York University
AI-induced Indifference: Unfair AI Reduces Prosociality
Hon. mention: Max Spohn, Harvard University
Beyond extremity: Underestimating the ideological complexity of outgroup members’ opinions drives partisan animosity
2023
1st place: M. Leonor Neto
Pay or Donate? How Language Shapes Generosity
2nd place: Olivia Fischer
Polarization in a Global State of Emergency: Quantifying Heterogeneity in Perceived Risks of Pandemic Mitigation Measures
Hon. mention: Daniella Turetski
Too Little, Too Late: The Impact of Timing on the Effectiveness of Mandated Financial Disclosures
Hon. mention: Roman Gallardo
Competitive Climates Increase Material and Symbolic Zero-sum Beliefs
Hon. mention: Tyler Fraser MacDonald
Ownership Aversion: Self-Signaling Underlies Preferences for Consumption without Ownership
2022
1st place: Molly Moore
The reputational benefits of selective exposure to partisan information
2nd place: Hannah Perkins Stark
Predictive utility of risk profiles
Hon. mention: Sean Devine
Decoy Effects in a Massive Real-World Retail Dataset
Hon. mention: Jessica Reif
Anchoring the Advisor: Do decision makers induce cognitive biases in their advisors when asking for advice?
Hon. mention: Matt Meister
Consumption Context Influences User-generated Product Ratings
2021
1st place: Ilana Brody
From Warm Glow to Cold Chill: Choice Avoidance in Charitable Donations
2nd place: Matt Meister
User-Generated Star Ratings Are Not Inherently Comparative
Hon. mention: Michelle Kim
Less is More (Natural): The Impact of the Number of Ingredients on Consumers’ Perceptions and Preferences
Hon. mention: Linnea Gandhi
Problems with Premortems: Self-Serving Attribution Bias in a Popular Debiasing Strategy
Hon. mention: Yusu Wang
When More is Not Better: Financial Constraints Jeopardize Sustainability by Increasing Preferences for Quantity Over Quality
2020
1st place: Yang Guo
Signaling Status by Acquiring Ownership (vs. Access)
2nd place: Ariel Fridman
The Cost of Opposition: Harming Our Own Rather Than Helping an Opponent
Hon. mention: Shoshana Segal
Alleviating Risk Aversion to Uncertain Impact Donations
Hon. mention: Feidhlim McGowan
Framing Numerical Sequences as Household Bills Partially Corrects Underestimation From Intuitive Summation
Hon. mention: Samuel Skowronek
The Problem with (and a Solution to) the Dominant Behavioral Ethics Paradigms
2019
1st place: Andras Molnar
Choosing the Light Meal: Real-time Aggregation of Calorie Information Reduces Meal Calories
2nd place: Lin Fei
The Bell Curve Is Counter-Intuitive
Hon. mention: Katie Mehr
Payling Less to Do More: Harnessing The Motivational Power of Streaks in an Incentive Scheme
Hon. mention: Alexander Park
The Benefits of Social-Digital Platforms on Peer Debt Repayments
Hon. mention: Heather Yang
Cognitive style impacts preference for advice seeking from AI
2018
1st place: Corey H. Allen
Justice at all costs? Transparency about the costs of incarceration decreases lay sentencing recommendations
2nd place: Ike Silver
Doing good for (maybe) nothing: Motive inferences when rewards are uncertain
Hon. mention: Ming-Hui Li
Prosociality increases in harsh and unpredictable environments
Hon. mention: Liang Huang
Dynamic budget monitoring: When feedback leads to spending acceleration
Hon. mention: Hayley Blunden
The impersonal touch: Improving feedback-giving with interpersonal distance
2017
1st place: Jennifer K. Lee
Being unique makes us similar?
2nd place: Ruben Laukonnen
The phenomenology of truth: The Aha! experience predicts accurate decisions in contexts of uncertainty or
where problem solving or retrieval processes are hidden from awareness.
Hon. mention: Emily Powell
Fighting the pain of giving: How adding time delays to donation pledges increases charitable giving
Hon. mention: Alicea J. Lieberman
How incentive framing can harness the power of norms
Hon. mention: Kristen Duke
Integrating purchase and quantity decisions increases sales by providing closure
2016
1st place: Kruti M. Vekaria
Donating a kidney to a stranger: Social discounting and costly altruism
2nd place: Caitlin Drummond
Putting on your thinking cap: Priming scientific reasoning produces critical but biased
evaluations of scientific evidence
Hon. mention: Jasmine Mahmoodi
Using insights from behavioural economics: Electricity tariff design and acceptance
Hon. mention: Eric P. Duhaime
The impact of inclement weather on voting behavior in U.S. presidential elections
Hon. mention: Julian J. Zlatev
When trying to be moral prevents doing good
2015
1st place: Gabriela Tonietto
Calendar Mindset: Scheduling Takes the Fun Out and Puts the Work In
2nd place: Caitlin Drummond
Development and validation of a scientific reasoning scale
Hon. mention: Catrine Jacobsen
Stealing Diamonds - an eye-tracking study of (did)honesty
Hon. mention: Marcus Mayorga
Ebola outbreak: A longitudinal study of risk perception
Hon. mention: Asa Palley
Estimating continuous distributions by quantifying errors in probability judgments
2014
1st place: Rachel Meng
Signal diversity in recommendations
2nd place: Robert Mislavsky
Risk is Weird
Hon. mention: Emma Levine
Prosocial lies: When deception breeds trust
Hon. mention: Agnes Scholz
Tracking eye movements to reveal memory processes during
rule- versus similarity-based decision making
Hon. mention: Alaina Talboy
Improving Accuracy in Bayesian Inference Problems through Training
2013
1st place: Jenny G. Olson
A penny saved is a partner earned: The
romantic appeal of savers
2nd place: Bradford Tuckfield
Quitting: The downside of great expectations in
professional tennis
Hon. mention: H. Min Bang
The longer you look back, the farther you can look
forward: Past duration predicts individual and collective environmental decision
making
Hon. mention: Daphna Motro
Why are you mad? The effect of different anger
sources on cooperation
Hon. mention: Brian D. Vickers
Value beyond context and elicitation:
Values construed on the spot influence more than decisions on the spot
2012
1st place: Zachary Burns
"It all happened so slow!" The impact of action speed on assessments of intentionality
2nd place: Jessica Thierman
Evaluations of double frames: Rethinking the valence-consistent shift
3d place: Louise Meilleur
Covert attention manipulations influence choice
4th place: Shuli Yu
Improving confidence judgments by taking more time
5th place: Elizabeth Keenan
Driving pro-environmental choice
2011
1st place: Vanessa Janowski
Loss aversion in risky choice is modulated by differential attention to losses
2nd place: Jingjing Ma
The effect of countability on satisfaction
Runner up: Janina Hoffman
How distraction can improve judgment processes
Runner up: Gordon Pennycook
Rationality and religion: Reasoning style predicts religiosity
Runner up: Dirk Wulff
Adaptive information search and decision making in the short and long run
2010
1st place: Sunita Sah
More affected = more neglected: Amplification of bias in advice to the unidentified and many
2nd place: Adrian Camilleri
Estimation and choice in a sequential sampling paradigm
3d place: Gregory J. Koop
Beyond process tracing: Response dynamics in risky decision making
3d place: Mike Yeomans
Matching incentives and motivation
3d place: Adam Zwickle
Creating distance where there is none: Can psychological distancing be used to solve real world problems?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Comparative Strength Model for Judgment
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
Best Paper Award:
The Best Paper Award is given to the best JDM paper published exactly three years earlier, judged by SJDM conference reviewers and the SJDM Best Paper Award committee.
2025
Winner: Mislavsky, R., & Gaertig, C.
Combining probability forecasts: 60% and 60% is 60%, but likely and likely is very likely.
Honorable Mention: Golman, R., Loewenstein, G., Molnar, A., & Saccardo, S.
The demand for, and avoidance of, information.
Honorable Mention: Gershon, R., & Fridman, A.
Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group.
2024
Winner: Gabrielle S. Adams, Benjamin A. Converse, Andrew H. Hales, & Leidy E. Klotz
People systematically overlook subtractive changes.
Honorable Mention: Nicholas Reinholtz, Philip P. Fernbach, & Bart De Langhe
Do people understand the benefit of diversification?
Honorable Mention: Samuel M. Hartzmark, Samuel D. Hirshman, & Alex Imas
Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs.
2023
Winner: Berkeley Dietvorst and Soaham Bharti
People reject algorithms in uncertain decision domains because they have diminishing sensitivity to forecasting error.
Honorable Mention: Alissa Fishbane, Aurelie Ouss and Anuj K. Shah
Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court.
Honorable Mention: Alice Moon and Leif Nelson
The uncertain value of uncertainty: When consumers are unwilling to pay for what they like.
FABBS Early Career Impact Award:
The
Early Career Impact Award
is presented to early career scientists of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) who are within ten years of completing their PhD and recognizes scientists who have made major contributions to our sciences. SJDM nominates a member for the award once every three years, following the
rotation scheme
. (Note that nominations are submitted in the year prior to the award. For example, SJDM submits a nomination in 2028 for the 2029 FABBS award.)
2026
Hengchen Dai
University of California, Los Angeles
2023
Sudeep Bhatia
University of Pennsylvania
2020
David G. Rand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
Edward Cokely
University of Oklahoma
2015
Katherine Milkman
University of Pennsylvania
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:
Crystal Hall
2021
Dave Hardisty
2021
Bud Fennema
2011
Jon Baron
2011
Sandy Schneider
2002
Steve Edgell
2002
Alan Schwartz
2000
Shawn Curley
2000
Alan Cooke
2000
Steve Edgell
1997
James Shanteau
1996
Chuck Gettys
1996
John Castellan
1993
Jane Beattie Memorial Travel Scholarship
Year
Winners and affiliations at time of award
2025
Nicole Abi-Esber, London School of Economics, UK
Eoin Cremen, University of Bath, UK
Odelia Asulin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Minwen Yang, University of Toronto, Canada
Elyse Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Meiying Wang, London Business School, UK
Rocío Martínez, IESE Business School, Spain
Karin Ella Bitman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Shemal Doshi, INSEAD, France
Samantha Kassirer, University of Toronto, Canada
2024
Eoin Cremen, University of Bath, UK
Aaron Shine, University of Bath, UK
Geers Michael, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
Huang Hsuan-Che, University of British Columbia, Canada
Nicolas Beauvais, University of Paris, France
Peter Wallmueller, INSEAD, France
Shemal Dosh, INSEAD, France
Yair Nahari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jeremie Beucler, University of Paris, France
Tobias Rebholz, University of Tubingen, Germany
2023
Aikaterini Voudouri, University Paris Cité, UK
Arthur Marie Xavier Claude Le Pargneux, University of Warwick, UK
Elena Bocchi, City University of London, UK
Gafari Abiodun Lukumon, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic - Morocco (& Institut Ecole Normale Supérieure - France)
Grusha Agarwal, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada
Mathilde Tonnesen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Maya Leschkowitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Minwen Yang, University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Felix Wallmueller, INSEAD, France
Qiong Xia, INSEAD, France
2022
Christian Elbaek, Aarhus University, Denmark
2021
Burcak Bas, Bocconi University, Italy
2019
Gizem Yalcin, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
2018
Ray Charles (Chuck) Howard, University of British Columbia
2017
Maragarita Leib, University of Amsterdam
Gianni Ribeiro, University of Queensland, Australia
2016
Rose Martin, Kingston University, United Kingdom
2015
Alex Cooke, Kingston University, United Kingdom
2015
Tom Gordon-Heckner, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2014
Andrea Pittarello, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2014
Martine Nurek, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London
2012
Ellen Evers, Department of Psychology, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
2012
Yasmina Okan, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
2011
Teresa Gavaruzzi, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
2010
Adrian Camilleri, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
2009
Shaul Shalvi, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Benjamin Hilbig, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
2008
Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Petko Kusev, Department of Psychology, City University, London
2007
Bernadette Kamleitner, Department of Economic Psychology, Educational Psychology and Evaluation Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
Guido Baltussen, Erasmus School of Economics and Tinbergen Institute
2006
Irina Cojuharenco, Graduate Program in Economics and Management, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
2005
Ted Martin Hedesstrom, Department of Psychology, Göteborg University
2004
Talya Miron-Shatz, Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2003
Liat Hadar, Department of Behavioral Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2002
Kirsten Volz, Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig
Boris Maciejovsky, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena
2000
Simone Moran, School of Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Mandeep Dhami, Department of Psychology, City University, London
1999
Anne M. Stiggelbout, Medical Decision Making Unit, Leiden University Medical Center
Frank A. Drews, Department of Psychology, Technical University of Berlin
J. Frank Yates Memorial Student Travel Award
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Seyi Lawal, University of California, San Diego
Mehrdad Aghayari, University of Arizona
Danielle Goldwert, New York University
Jose Arellano Martorellet, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephan Carney, University of Southern California
Yue Zhang, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Atakan Atamer, University of Michigan
Coco Liu, University of Utah
Roger Saumure, University of Pennsylvania
Hyejin Kim, Cornell University
2024
Edona Selimaj, University of Münster
Elizabeth Champlin, The University of Toledo
Emily Neu Line, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Erin Bugbee, Carnegie Mellon University
Jerry Richardson, Cornell University
Jinyi Kuang, University of Pennsylvania
Jocelyn Grabke, Northwestern University
Kasandra Alexa Vazquez, Nova Southeastern University
Mika Guzikevits, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Minghui Ni, Cornell University
Noa Palmon, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Sinem Yilmaz, university of illinois at chicago
Xiaohong Cai, Indiana University Bloomington
Yair Nahari, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
2023
Hamza Tariq, University of Waterloo
Kerem Oktar, Princeton University
Minwen Yang, University of Toronto
Michael Eber, Harvard University
Jenny Chang, Carnegie Mellon University
Yang Gao, New York University
Shira Garber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yasemin Genc, City, University of London
Meiying Wang, London Business School
Amanda Nerenberg, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Andrew Blythe, University of Colorado Boulder
Sydney Roux, Louisiana State University
Kianté Fernandez, University of California, Los Angeles
XU Feiyu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Madeline Chance, Middle Tennessee State University
Hui Zhang, Iowa State University
2022
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Zhiying (Bella) Ren
Daniella Turetski
Muhammad Asif
Katherine Sanchez
Nina M. Sooter
Eriselda Danaj
Kaiden Stewart
Kevin Chi
Brittany Nelson
Nurit Nobel
Jane Elizabeth Miller
Bingjie Li
Liman Wang
Elisa Tedaldi
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