Society for Judgment and Decision Making

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision. Its members include psychologists, economists, organizational and marketing researchers, decision analysts, and other decision researchers. The society's primary event is its annual meeting at which society members present their research. It also publishes the journal Judgment and Decision Making. The 2023-2024 president of the society is Joe Simmons.[1]

Membership

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The society has about 1,500 members. Although meetings have always been in North America, the membership is international. The president and some of the executive board are chosen by approval voting.

History

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The society was founded in 1980 by James Shanteau, Charles Gettys, and others, as a way of bringing together researchers who study human judgments and decisions from different perspectives.

Past presidents include:

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
Eldar Shafir 2010-2011
George Wu 2011-2012
Craig Fox 2012-2013
Gretchen Chapman 2013-2014
Ellen Peters 2014-2015
Dan Goldstein 2015-2016
Rick Larrick 2016-2017
Chris Hsee 2017-2018
Nina Mazar 2018-2019
Katy Milkman 2019-2020
Danny Oppenheimer 2020-2021
Suzanne Shu 2021-2022
Abigail Sussman 2022-2023
Joe Simmons 2023-2024

Conference

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The annual conference has been held every year in conjunction with the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, now overlapping by two days, in mid-November. More than 700 people attended the conference in 2015 and in 2016. The SJDM annual meeting for 2024 is scheduled to occur in New York City.[2]

Publications and journal

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The society has published a book series, first in cooperation with Cambridge University Press and now in cooperation with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. It also publishes an open-access online journal called Judgment and Decision Making, as of July 2007.

References

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  1. ^ "Society for Judgment and Decision Making". sjdm.org. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  2. ^ "SJDM Website".
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