Dear Decision Sciences Collaborative,
| Happy new year! I’m excited to announce that we have several DSC events lined up for the spring. On April 8 we have a special Symposium on Pandemic Decision-Making featuring Gretchen Chapman (Carnegie Mellon), Valerie Reyna (Cornell) and several of our esteemed OSU colleagues. On April 25 we have Oriel FeldmanHall (Brown) visiting. Then on May 6 we have our annual Spring Research Forum featuring Tali Sharot (University College London). Please see more details below. Additionally, we will be holding our annual spring grant competition, with a deadline of March 21. Please see the DSC website for more information about applying: https://decisionsciences.osu.edu/funding-opportunities Let me also take a moment to congratulate our Fall DSC grant award winners: Phuong Le (Psychology) - Antecedents of abstinence and balancing in self-control. Nikolas McNeal (undergraduate) – What causes enhanced processing of high-value items? In other news, I would like to welcome two new members of our steering committee: John Rehbeck (Economics) and Nicole Sintov (School of Environment and Natural Resources). I would also like to thank outgoing members of the steering committee: Amanda Robinson (Political Science) and PJ Healy (Economics). Symposium on Pandemic Decision Making The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with many new challenges. Among these challenges are new decisions that we’ve had to wrestle with, like social distancing, mask wearing, and vaccinating. These decisions have been further complicated by misinformation and political manipulation. This symposium will feature research focused on understanding these decisions and the factors that have influenced them, with the hope of improving responses to future pandemics. The symposium is scheduled for Friday April 8. The tentative schedule is from 11am-5pm in Psychology 35. Our lineup includes Profs. Gretchen Chapman (Carnegie Mellon) and Valerie Reyna (Cornell) as well as OSU faculty including Russell Fazio, Kelly Garrett, Richard Petty, and Brittany Shoots-Reinhard (and more to come). We are now accepting submissions for student talks/posters with a deadline of February 28. We encourage anyone with relevant research to apply! The best submission will receive a talk slot and a cash prize, and the best poster at the symposium will also receive a cash prize. Please submit your abstracts (500 words maximum) to me directly (krajbich.1@osu.edu). More details to come soon! DSC Sponsored Seminar On Monday April 25 at 2pm we are very pleased to host Prof. Oriel FeldmanHall from Brown University. Details and location coming soon! Oriel FeldmanHall received her Doctorate from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University before coming to Brown. In 2016, Dr. FeldmanHall won the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, in recognition of innovative work that has already advanced the field. She also recently won the prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, which provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Dr FeldmanHall's research seeks to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that form the basis of human social behavior. She aims to understand how the brain detects, values, and assesses conflicting reward and punishment contingencies during moral dilemmas, and to examine the role of emotion and its operational power in shaping these social interactions. She merges multiple different fields, including behavioral economics and social psychology, with imaging and psychophysiological techniques to investigate the brain mechanisms that support these complex processes. Find out more at http://www.feldmanhalllab.com DSC Spring Research Forum Please mark your calendars for Friday May 6 for our spring research forum, which will feature Tali Sharot (University College London) as our keynote speaker. We will be soliciting abstract submissions soon, so please start thinking about what research you would like to share with the community. Prof. Sharot is a Professor Cognitive Neuroscientist at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London where she is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. Prof. Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, with past fellowships including the Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship, Fellow of the Forum of European Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She received her PhD in psychology and neuroscience from New York University and her B.A in psychology and economics from Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and beliefs. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature, Science, and Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017), both of which received the British Psychological Society Book Award. |
Best Regards,
Ian Krajbich, DSC Director
krajbich.1@osu.edu
