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September 27, 2005

SPSP Pre-Conference in Palm Springs, CA

DECISION MAKING@SPSP PRE-CONFERENCE

All are invited to attend and present at the first ever Pre-Conference on Judgment and Decision Making preceding the January 2006 SPSP meeting in Palm Springs, CA. The inaugural JDM@SPSP pre-conference will be held during the evening of January 25th and during the day of January 26.

The goal of the JDM@SPSP pre-conference is to highlight the emerging nexus of social, personality, judgment, and decision making research. The meeting features an exciting lineup of speakers:

Barry Schwartz
Brian Knutson
Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Kahneman
George Loewenstein
Jennifer Lerner
Norbert Schwarz
Tom Gilovich

With generous support from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the NSF's programs on Social Psychology and Decision, Risk and Management Science, the pre-conference will offer 20 competitive travel scholarships ($300) to graduate students who are first author on a poster. In addition, all graduate students who register for JDM@SPSP will receive a 1-year (2005) subscription to the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. The deadline for poster submissions is December 1.

Registration is now open and will close when our limited space is filled or December 31, whichever comes first.

Registration, poster submission and contact information is at:

http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/SPSP/

Organizers:
Dan Ariely, Jennifer Lerner, Leif Nelson and Leaf Van Boven

Posted by DSN at 10:43 PM | Comments (0)

September 22, 2005

AMA Foundation announces Berry-AMA Book Prize winner

The AMA Foundation announces Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most by Patrick Barwise and Sean Meehan as the recipient of the 2005 Berry-AMA Book Prize. The book offers a "back to the basics" approach to marketing by advocating that consumers want products that are "simply better" in terms of quality, reliability and value. Barwise and Meehan outline an actionable framework for managers to be able to understand customer needs and to create reliable solutions to meet those needs.

Patrick Barwise is Professor of Management and Marketing and Chair, Marketing Faculty for the London Business School. Sean Meehan is the Martin Hilti Professor of Marketing and Change Management at IMD, in Laussanne, Switzerland.

The DSN editor is proud to be London Business School colleagues with the winner and a finalist for the Berry Book Prize, the latter being Tim Ambler for Marketing and the Bottom Line.

The 2005 Berry/AMA Book Prize finalists were:

Accountable Marketing : The Economics of Data-Driven Marketing (Thomson Texere), by Peter Rosenwald

Effective Advertising : Understanding When, How, and Why Advertising Works (Marketing for a New Century) (Sage Publications), by Gerard J. Tellis

Marketing and the Bottom Line, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, Pearson Education), by Tim Ambler

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable(Penguin Group), by Seth Godin

Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most (Harvard Business School), by Patrick Barwise and Sean Meehan

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September 19, 2005

Jobs Times Two at UC San Diego

ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP TENURE TRACK POSITIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY AVAILABLE

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: University of California, San Diego (http://psy.ucsd.edu). The psychology department at UCSD invites applications for an Assistant Professor (with the possibility of a more senior hire pending availability of funding) tenure track, in Experimental Psychology. We seek an individual who is pursuing research in any substantive area of experimental psychology (e.g., social, developmental, cognitive, perception, learning, neuroscience, emotion, etc.) with clear implications for understanding the mechanisms of psychopathology. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on UC salary scales. Candidates should send letter, curriculum vita, research statement, reprints, and names of three referees to Experimental Psychology Search Committee - JDMS; Department of Psychology, 0109; University of California, San Diego; 9500 Gilman Drive; La Jolla CA 92093-0109. Immigration status of non-citizens should be stated in the vita. Complete applications received by Monday, October 31, 2005 will receive full consideration, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff.

Craig R. M. McKenzie
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
9500 Gilman Drive - MC 0109
UC San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093-0109
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: University of California, San Diego (http://psy.ucsd.edu). The Psychology Department at UCSD invites applications for an Assistant Professor (with the possibility of a more senior hire pending availability of funding) tenure track, in any area of Applied Psychology. We seek an individual who is pursuing research with an applied emphasis in any area of experimental psychology (e.g., social, developmental, cognitive, perception, learning, neuroscience, etc.). Salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on UC salary scales. Candidates should send letter, curriculum vita, research statement, reprints, and names of three referees to Applied Psychology Search Committee - JDMS; Department of Psychology, 0109; 9500 Gilman Drive; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla CA 92093-0109. Immigration status of non-citizens should be stated in the vita. Complete applications received by Monday, October 31, 2005 will receive full consideration, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff.

Craig R. M. McKenzie
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
9500 Gilman Drive - MC 0109
UC San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093-0109
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~mckenzie/

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