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Decision Processes Colloquia: 2007-2008

Spring 2008


Where: 355 JMHH Conference Room
When: 12:00-1:20 PM (unless otherwise noted)
 
Note: Contact Coordinators Deborah Small (215-898-6494), Gal Zauberman (215-573-0558), or Jason Dana (215-573-4088) for suggestions for additional speakers and Angela Di Santo (215-746-3756) for Decision Process scheduling information and appointments with speakers.

  Speaker Abstracts/Papers

January 28, 2008 Emir Kamenica
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

Contextual Inference in Markets: On the Informational Content of Product Lines
PAPER

Choice Overload and Simplicity Seeking
PAPER


February 4, 2008 Joachim Vosgerau
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Canegie Mellon University

The (ill-fated) Pursuit of Enjoyment in Watching Televised Sports Events and other Competitions
ABSTRACT

Indeterminacy and Live Television
PAPER


February 11, 2008 Talya Miron-Shatz
Post-doctoral Research Associate>
Center for Health & Wellbeing
Princeton University

Evaluating Multi-Episode Events
PAPER


February 18, 2008 Presidents Day - No Talk Scheduled  

February 25, 2008 Ernan Haruvy
Assistant Professor of Marketing
University of Texas, Dallas

Individual Choice among Charity Auctions
PAPER


March 3, 2008 Ido Erev
William Davidson Faculty of Industrial
Engineering and Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions
ABSTRACT
PAPER


March 10, 2008 Spring Break - No DP  

March 17, 2008 Laura Kray
Harold Furst Associate Professor
of Management Philosophy and Values
University of Berkeley, California

Thinking Within the Box: The Relational Procession Style Elicited by Counterfactual Mind-Sets
PAPER


March 24, 2008

 

 


March 31, 2008

Emily Pronin
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Princeton University

How We See Ourselves and How We See Others: Basic Mechanics to Social Consequences
ABSTRACT


April 7, 2008 Grace Wong
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
University of Pennsylvania

The American Dream? The Private and External Benefits of Home Ownership
PAPER


April 14, 2008

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER:
George Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of “Light” Paternalism
PAPER


April 21, 2008 Kristin Diehl
Assistant Professor of Marketing
University of Southern California

Grear Expectations?! Assortment Size, Expectations and Satisfaction
PAPER


April 28, 2008 Michael Haselhuhn
Senior Fellow, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Lecturer
University of Pennsylvania
Implicit Negotiation Beliefs and Performance: Experimental and Longitudinal Evidence
PAPER

Fall 2007


Where: 355 JMHH Conference Room
When: 12:00-1:20 PM (unless otherwise noted)
 
Note: Contact Coordinators Deborah Small (215-898-6494), Gal Zauberman (215-573-0558), or Jason Dana (215-573-4088) for suggestions for additional speakers and Angela Di Santo (215-746-3756) for Decision Process scheduling information and appointments with speakers.
 

Sept 10, 2007 Opening Lunch, meets @ 12 noon in room 741 JMHH  

  Speaker Abstracts/Papers

Sept 17, 2007 Jonah Berger,
Assistant Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School
The Spread of Culture

Sept 24, 2007 Scott Rick,
Senior Fellow, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
The Wharton School
Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Oct 1, 2007 Devin G. Pope,
Assistant Professor of Operations
and Information Management
The Wharton School
Math is for Boys?
Analysing the Effect of Environmental Factors on the Gender Gap in Math Test Scores

Oct 8, 2007 Leaf Van Boven,
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Cornell University
Immediacy Bias in Perceptions of Emotional Intensity and Human Suffering

Oct 15, 2007 No Colloquia – Fall Break  

Oct 22, 2007 Alan Sanfey
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona
Deliberative and Affective Processes in Decision-Making

Oct 29, 2007 Yuval Rottenstreich,
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
New York University
Do We Agree More About Who is Beautiful or Who is Ugly?
A Four-level Model of Asymmetries Between Likes and Dislikes

Nov 5, 2007 Mara Mather,
Associate Professor of Psychology
UC Santa Cruz
Older Adults' Positivity Effect in Attention and Memory: The Role of Cognitive Control

Nov 12, 2007 Joseph P. Simmons,
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Yale University
When Will Motivation Increase Adjustment from Anchor Values

Nov 19, 2007 No Colloquia – JDM Conference  

Nov 26, 2007 Leonard Lee,
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Columbia University
Preference Consistency, Emotion and Cognition

Dec 3, 2007 Erte Xiao,
Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Social Norms and Decision Making