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 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.

2007-2008 Executive Board

Posted November 25th, 2007 by alansz

Jon Baron <baron@psych.upenn.edu>, Past President
Michael Birnbaum <mbirnbaum@exchange.fullerton.edu>, President
Dan Ariely <dandan@duke.edu>, President-Elect
Bud Fennema <bfennema@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>, Secretary-Treasurer
Alan Schwartz <alansz@sjdm.org>, Webmaster
Dan Goldstein <dan@dangoldstein.com>, Newsletter Editor
Julie Downs <downs@cmu.edu>, Conference Coordinator
Alan Schwartz <alansz@sjdm.org>, 2008 Program Committee Chair
Craig Fox <craig.fox@anderson.ucla.edu>, Elected member, 2005-2008
Barbara Mellers <mellers@haas.berkeley.edu>, Elected member 2006-2009
Dan Goldstein <dan@dangoldstein.com>, Elected member, 2007-2010

Upcoming SJDM meetings

Posted November 25th, 2007 by alansz

2009 - Boston, MA (Nov 21-23, roughly)

2008 SJDM Elections

Posted August 19th, 2008 by alansz

The 2008 SJDM elections are underway and continue through Sept 14. If you are an SJDM member and you did not receive an email with voting instructions, including an election login and password, it is very likely that your email address is out-of-date in the membership database. Send an email to sjdm@sjdm.org to receive voting instructions at your new email address.

2008 Annual Meeting news and links

Posted August 18th, 2008 by alansz

 

The 2008 annual meeting of SJDM will be held November 15-17 at the Chicago Hilton Hotel (720 S. Michigan Ave).

Hotel reservations may be made through the Psychonomic Society's reservation page at http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/CHICHHH-PII-20081110/ind...
If you call the Hilton, mention the "Psychonomic rate" to get the discounted room rate.

Program and registration information will appear here when they are available (early September).

The future of EADM

Posted December 12th, 2007 by alansz

The article below was published by European Association of Decision Making (EADM) president Robin Hogarth in the latest EADM newsletter:

As a professional organization, EADM is a strange animal. It comes to life every two years for the SPUDM conference and then essentially hibernates in the interim. In fact, SPUDM predates EADM and it is important to recall that EADM was created to ensure the continuity of SPUDM conferences. So perhaps that’s all it should do?  read more »

Other upcoming meetings

Posted November 24th, 2007 by alansz

The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, being held in Philadelphia in October 2008. The meeting theme is "Comparative Effectiveness Research". To submit an abstract, go to ABSTRACTS or to learn more about the SMDM 30th Annual Meeting, go to MEETING.