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Independents are most likely to oppose to a party or candidate rather than support its alternate - new research from Joseph Siev has found. Read more here.
Up to half of consumers may decide to pour perfectly good milk down the drain based solely on their glance at the date label on the carton – new research from Brian Roe has found. Read more here.…
Decision-making capabilities of college students – including some graduating this spring – were likely negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic – new research from Melissa Buelow has found…
Partisan conflict can be largely explained as differing views on how to amass and distribute resources – new research from Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman has found. Read more here.
While low-credibilty publishers and high-credibility publishers had bursts of coverage at the same time, they often covered different topics – new research from Kelly Garrett has found. Read more…
Being able to take a quick walk to a nearby food retail store may be a significant factor in long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery – new research from Keeley Pratt has found. Read more…
While marketers seem to love creating new brand names by deliberately misspelling real words, consumers almost never like this tactic – new research from Rebecca Reczek has found. Read more here.…
Children as young as 4 years old show evidence of a network in the brain found in adults that tackles difficult cognitive problems – new research from Zeynep Saygin has found. Read more here.
Electric vehicle test drives have the potential to change how people think of themselves – and that was linked to increased intention to buy – new research from Nicole Sintov has found. Read more…
People who said they were more confident in their beliefs that vaccines and medicines were safe and effective were more likely to want to actively support these views, new research from Richard…
Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax – that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons – functions as a "gateway" to believing in…
New research suggests that explaining the value of misshapen vegetables – that they are as healthful as their picture-perfect counterparts and buying them helps reduce food waste – could help…
DSC researchers Junha Kim, Selin Malkoc, and Joseph Goodman find that ending prices with “.99” can backfire on sellers. It makes consumers less likely to choose pricey upgrades. Their research was…
DSC researcher Grant E. Donnelly and colleagues find that men and women treat deadlines in the workplace differently. Women are less likely to ask for extensions. This hurts the women and the…
A $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be used to establish the first national academic research network on wasted food in the United States. Brian Roe, a professor of…
DSC researcher Ian Krajbich and colleague Cary Frydman find that when people see others in their group hesitating before making a choice, they are about twice as likely to break from the group and…
The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce a new core program, Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context, which merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its…
This first of its kind “bootcamp” is intended to introduce students and scholars at all stages, from across the social sciences, to the potential utility of quantum theory for their work.
Hal Arkes and Brittany Shoots-Reinhard receive NSF award to study risk perception and behavior associated with COVID-19. More details here.
Richard Petty, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology, will lead an interdisciplinary collaboration to study ways to enhance compliance with COVID-19 guidance, such as…
As part of the Max M. Fisher College of Business Webinar Series, Joseph K. Goodman, chair of Fisher’s Department of Marketing and Logistics, and John Barker, lecturer and president and CEO of the…
DSC funded researcher, Brittany Shoots-Reinhard recently joined the Distracted Driving Task Force, a collaborative initiative spearheaded by the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio…
DSC resrearcher Ian Krajbich and collegue finds that when people must act quickly, selfish people are likely to act more selfishly than usual, while pro-social people behave even more pro-socially…
Director of the Decision Sciences Collaborative, Dr. Ellen Peters, spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer about innumeracy and health outcomes.
Read the full article here.
For more information, see the full OSU news report here.
DSC funded researchers Arkady Konovalov and Ian Krajbich published a new study examining what is happening in people’s brains as they…
Congratulations to our Fall 2017 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
The Role of Peripheral Cues in Behavioral Response to Feedback for Food-Energy-Water Footprints - Ian Adams …
The Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources is looking to hire two new post-doctoral positions at the intersection of the environment and human behavior. One position is…
Congratulations to our Spring 2017 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
DSC-funded researchers, Rebecca Liu, Neal Hooker, Efthimios Parasidis, and Christopher Simons published a study examing the impact of "All Natural" labeling on perceived food…
Congratulations to our Fall 2016 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
Attention and information partitioning in Game Theory: An eye-tracking study - James Wei Chen & Ian Krajbich…
DSC member Alison Norris, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the OSU College of Public Health and in the College of Medicine, has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant, funded by the…
Ellen Peters, DSC Director, was on NPR's Marketplace discussing how to best present The Numbers, one of Marketplace's best known segments.
To listen, visit: Are You Listening When We Do The…
Congratulations to our Spring 2016 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
Timing of communication - Puja Bhattacharya & Katie Coffman
DSC member Ian Krajbich, assistant professor, psychology and economics, has received a five-year NSF CAREER Award of $722,305. Krajbich is developing models to apply and test across different…
Congratulations to our Fall 2015 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
News consumption and its relations with editorial cues and political predispositions and personality traits …
Ellen Peters, professor, psychology and director, Decision Sciences Collaborative, has been appointed to the Committee on the Science of Science Communication of the Division of Behavioral and Social…
A paper by Ellen Peters, Louise Meilleur, and Mary Kate Tompkins entitled, "Numeracy and the Affordable Care Act: Opportunities and Challenges" was recently featured on a MedicineNet web article. The…
Decision Sciences Collaborative member, John Kagel (Economics), is co-author with Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, of the second edition of Handbook of Experimental Economics…
The College of Arts and Sciences featured DSC researchers' work in the latest news article, "White House Recognizes the Importance of Decision Sciences."
DSC researchers highlited in the…
President Obama announced a new executive order on Tuesday which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. citizens in order to advance government initiatives.
“A…
Congratulations to the latest successful proposals in our Decision Sciences Student/Faculty small grants program!
Congratulations to our Fall 2014 Decision Sciences Small Research Grant awardees:
Why are promises kept? - Puja Bhattacharya, Arjun Sengupta, & John…
Thomson Reuters’ World’s Most Scientific Minds 2014
Martin Tusler, research associate, psychology, and member, Behavioral Decision Making Initiative; and David…
Edward Malecki, professor, geography, has been selected by the American Geographical Society (AGS) to receive the Van Cleef Memorial Medal. The award is conferred on scholars who…
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…
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…
Congratulations to the latest successful proposals in our Decision Sciences Student/Faculty small grants program!
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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.
The next…
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.
In…
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…
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…
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'…
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…