June 26, 2004
JDM Conference Announcement
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 theoretical, empirical, or applied topic related to judgment and decision making. Completed manuscripts are not required.
LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM
SJDM's silver anniversary conference will be held at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis MN, November 20-22, 2004. We've added a full day (Saturday) to the schedule to make room for more presentations and for two excellent keynote speakers:
- Malcolm Gladwell, science writer for The New Yorker and author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Little, Brown and Company).
- Robert Zajonc, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, and author of many path-breaking articles on the cognitive, affective, and social determinants of behavior.
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 Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award is given for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD. It is awarded in even years, including 2004. Materials should be submitted by July 15, 2004 to Professor Rick Larrick, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708. For eligibility criteria and submission details, see the announcement in the upcoming June newsletter.
- The Best Student Poster Award is given for the best poster presentation whose first author is a student member of SJDM.
- The Jane Beattie Travel Memorial Scholarship subsidizes travel to the United States for scholarly pursuits related to JDM research, including attendance of the annual meeting.
Further details regarding these awards are available at http://www.sjdm.org.
PROGRAM COMMITTE
Craig Fox (Chair), Dan Ariely, Rachel Croson, Mike DeKay, Julie Irwin, Jennifer Lerner, Ellen Peters, and Alex Wearing.
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June 22, 2004
Do Defaults Save Lives?
Eric Johnson and Dan Goldstein have published an investigation of the effect of policy defaults on organ donation in the journal Science [Download]. Defaults determine whether a citizen is in the organ donor pool unless they choose not to be (an "opt out" system, as in some European countries) or is not in the organ donor pool unless they choose to be (an "opt in" system as, in the United States). Looking at real-world data from a variety of European countries in addition to experimental data, it is found that most people stick with the default category they are assigned to.
Across European countries the opt out countries have drastically higher proportions of the population in the potential organ donor pool: a difference of 60 percentage points minimum.
Does the size of the donor pools matter? Johnson and Goldstein find that opt out countries are home to more organ transplantation, and presumably lives saved. This is supported by a regression analysis that controls for religion, educational level, and medical infrastructure.
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