SFB 504 - Small Group Meeting ``Experience-based Decision Making''

Date:

February 23-25, 2001

Place:

Heidelberg, Psychological Institute

Contact:

Tilmann.Betsch@urz.uni-hd.de, Susanne_Haberstroh@psi-sv2.psi.uni-heidelberg.de

Schedule

2/23/2001 Friday

1 pm

Arrival at the conference venue (Psychological Institute, Room 102)

2 pm - Session 1:

• Robin Hogarth, The University of Chicago & Pompeu Fabra University
  ``Educating Intuition''
• Wendy Wood, Texas A&M University
  ``Habits in everyday life''
• Henning Plessner, University of Heidelberg
  ``Knowledge-based influences on judgments of referees in sports''

4 pm

Coffee break

4.15 pm - Session 2:

• Maya Bar-Hillel, The Hebrew University
  ``Are professional test makers rational? A critical look from a cognitive and game-theoretic viewpoint''
• Helmut Jungermann, Technical University of Berlin,
  ``The role of experience in advice giving and taking situations''

5.35 pm

Coffee break

5.50 pm - Session 3:

• Judith Orasanu, NASA-Ames Research Center
  ``How does experience influence flight crews decision making?"
• Stefan Schulz-Hardt, University of Munich
  ``The impact of individual pre-discussion preferences on group decisions: Why most groups fail to solve hidden profiles''

7.10 pm

End of scientific program

8 pm

Heidelberg: Pubs

2/24/2001 Saturday

9 am - Session 4:

• Alexander Wearing, University of Melbourne
  ``Decision making by hierarchically structured groups''
• Susanne Haberstroh, University of Heidelberg,
  ``COMMERCE - A microworld simulation to study routine effects in repeated decision making''
• James Shanteau, Kansas State University,
  ``Development of expertise in a complex decision-making environment''

11 am

Coffee break

11.15 am - Session 5:

• Oswald Huber, University of Fribourg,
  ``Risky decision making: The search for probability information and risk defusing operators''
• Nigel Harvey, University College London
  ``Experience, feedback, and improvements in judgment performance''
• Herbert Bless, University of Mannheim
  ``The impact of mood on the use of prior knowledge in form of content and procedures''

1.15 pm

Lunch and sightseeing

3.30 pm - Session 6:

• Peter Ayton, City University London
  - ? -
• Bas Verplanken, University of Tromso
  ``Reflections on past behavior: A self-report index of habit strength''

4.40 pm

Coffee break

5 pm - Session 7:

• Sheina Orbell, University of Essex
  "Creating Habit"
• Round table discussion

6.15 pm

End of scientific program

8 pm

Heidelberg Castle: Conference dinner

2/25/2001 Sunday

9 am - Session 8:

• Peter Sedlmeier, Technical University of Chemnitz
  ``Sample-size judgment and experience''
• Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University
  ``Multi-alternative Decision Field Theory: A dynamic artificial neural network model of decision-making''
• Adele Diederich, University of Oldenburg
  ``Modeling decision time as a measure of conflict strength in individual risky decision making''

11.15 am

Coffee break

11.30 am - Session 9:

• Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
  ``The Affect Heuristic''
• Tilmann Betsch, University of Heidelberg
  ``Preference Theory''

12.40 pm

Round table discussion

1.15 pm

Lunch

2.30 pm

End of conference