REMINDER: The deadline for the 2006 SJDM conference is approaching quickly
(submissions are due July 15). Please see Call for Abstracts below for
details.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) invites abstracts for
symposia, oral presentations, and posters on any interesting topic related
to judgment and decision making. Completed manuscripts are not required.
LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM
SJDM's annual conference will be held at the Hilton Americas in Houston,
TX, from November 18-20, 2006. Early registration and welcome reception
will take place the evening of Friday, November 17. As in 2004 and 2005,
the schedule includes a full day on Saturday to make room for more
presentations and for two keynote speakers:
• Philip Tetlock, Mitchell Professor of Leadership, University of
California, Berkeley, and award-winning author of numerous books and
articles about political judgments, accountability, and counterfactual
thinking
• John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics, Temple University, and
bestselling author of several books including Innumeracy and A
Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
SUBMISSIONS
The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2006. Submissions for symposia,
oral presentations, and posters should be made through the SJDM website at
http://sql.sjdm.org. Technical questions can be addressed to the
webmaster, Alan Schwartz, at
www@sjdm.org. All other questions can be
addressed to Megan Hinkel, at
megan@decisionresearch.org.
ELIGIBILITY
At least one author of each presentation must be a member of SJDM. Joining
at the time of submission will satisfy this requirement. A membership form
may be downloaded from the SJDM website at
http://www.sjdm.org. An
individual may give only one talk (podium presentation) and present only
one poster, but may be a co-author on multiple talks and/or posters.
AWARDS
• The Best Student Poster Award is given for the best poster presentation
whose first author is a student member of SJDM.
• The Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award is intended to encourage
outstanding work by new researchers. Applications due July 15, 2006.
Further details are available at
http://www.sjdm.org.
• The Jane Beattie Memorial Fund subsidizes travel to North America for a
foreign scholar in pursuits related to judgment and decision research,
including attendance at the annual SJDM meeting. Information and an
application form can be found at:
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/joshua.klayman/more/BeattieInfo06.htm
Applications are due by July 16, 2006.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ellen Peters (Chair), Dan Ariely, Rachel Croson, Melissa Finucane, Rebecca
Ratner, Yuval Rottenstreich, Alan Schwartz, George Wu
Derek Koehler (conference coordinator)
John Payne (SJDM president)
Rebecca K. Ratner
Associate Professor of Marketing
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
3307 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742-1815
rratner@rhsmith.umd.edu (email)
(301) 405-2175 (office phone)
(301) 405-0146 (fax)
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