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Lawrence Baum receives 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award

Lawrence (Larry) Baum, professor, political science, received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association for a lifetime of…

Context effects produced by question orders reveal quantum nature of human judgments

Decision Sciences member Zheng Joyce Wang, associate professor, communication, is lead author of a new study using quantum theory to predict a surprising regularity in human behavior, with unusual…

Spring 2014 Decision Sciences Small Research Grants awarded

Congratulations to the latest successful proposals in our Decision Sciences Student/Faculty small grants program!

Visit our Funded Projects page to view the recipients and project titles.…

Fall 2013 Decision Sciences Small Research Grants awarded

Congratulations to the latest successful proposals in our BDM Student/Faculty small grants program!

Visit our Funded Projects page to view the recipients and project titles.

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Celia Wills and Ellen Peters in special issue of BMC Informatics and Decision Making

Decision Sciences members Celia Wills and Ellen Peters are authors in a special issue of BMC Informatics and Decision Making.

A BioMed Central Special Supplement is now available.

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Ellen Peters presents at Institute of Medicine Workshop

BDM member Ellen Peters presented a commissioned paper entitled "Numeracy and the Affordable Care Act: Opportunities and challenges." for the Institute of Medicine's workshop on Health Literacy…

Dan Schley awarded international De Finetti Prize

BDM member Dan Schley was awarded the 2013 De finetti Prize for his paper entitled "Magnitude representations underlie valuations of riskless and riky prospects" from the European Association for…

Revamping the Decision Sciences Website

The Decision Sciences Website is undergoing some exciting changes, including adding News and Events postings. We will also be grouping our members under OSU's Discovery Themes based on members'…

Ellen Peters and colleagues featured in The Boston Globe

The working paper entitled Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government by Dan Kahan, Ellen Peters, Erica Dawson, and Paul Slovic is featured in The Boston Globe article, "Do the math? Only…