JDM Summer School
Introduction
2nd Judgment and Decision Making Summer School for PhD students, Bonn, 14-23 Aug 2014; Deadline 5 Apr
Call for Applications
The European Association for Decision Making (EADM) is pleased to announce its
2nd Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) Summer School for PhD Students.
The Summer School will take place from Friday 15 August to Saturday 23 August, 2014 at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany.
The Summer School will consist of a weeklong program of courses covering issues of methodology in Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) research including hands on courses on Bayesian statistics, cognitive modelling and eye-tracking, as well as courses covering important current issues of social and anti-social decision making (details below).
Courses will be taught by an international teaching staff: Carsten de Dreu (University of Amsterdam), Susann Fiedler (MPI Bonn), Andreas Glöckner (University Göttingen), Frank Renkewitz (University Erfurt), Benjamin Scheibehenne (University Basel) and Shaul Shalvi (Ben Gurion University).
Additionally to the course work there will be keynote talks from leading experts in the field. Confirmed keynote talks will be conveyed by Mirta Galesic (MPI Berlin), Cilia Witteman (University Nijmegen), Arndt Bröder (University Mannheim), David Budescu (Fordham University), and Michael Waldmann (University Göttingen). Participants will have the opportunity to meet the president of the EADM, Cilia Witteman. Furthermore, there will be informal meetings with the keynote speakers and the main teaching staff. Participants will have the opportunity to ask senior researchers and (current or previous) action editors of some of the main outlets for JDM research (JDM, JEP:LMC, JPSP, ExPsy) concerning their advice for research and for submitting their papers to these outlets.
Applications are invited from PhD students working on any area of JDM research or related field (e.g., social cognition, behavioral economics) from both inside and outside Europe. Applications are also accepted from researchers who have recently completed their PhD or from graduate students who are about to start the PhD. Participants will be selected by an academic board and preference will be given to applicants who are (or want to become) EADM members, and to applicants in the first two years of their PhD research.
Accepted participants take part at the Summer School free of charge due to the generous funding by the EADM. Accommodation, food and travel costs are not covered. Accommodation for eight nights is available and reserved at rates between 248€ (shared double room) and 416€ (single room).
To apply for the Summer School the following materials are required: (a) 2-page CV that gives details of your academic achievements, (b) summary of your PhD research (800-1000 words), (c) short letter of recommendation (maximum of one page) from an academic with knowledge of your research (e.g., supervisor). Please email these documents as attachments in pdf format to: summerschool2014@eadm.eu by April 5th, 2014 with “EADM Summer School Application” in the subject line.
We would be delighted if advisors and senior researchers could pass this call for application on to PhD students in their department that might be interested in participating.
Best regards,
Andreas Glöckner, Susann Fiedler & Shaul Shalvi (organizer team)
Details and Requirements:
Summer School attendees are responsible for their own accommodation and for their own travel costs to and from the Summer School. The institute is easy to reach by plane (Köln/Bonn, Düsseldorf, about 1 hour, by directly connected train, and Frankfurt, about 1.5 hours, by directly connected by train).
Places will only be offered to applicants who are willing and able to attend the entire Summer School. You will be expected to read 15-20 journal articles or book chapters in advance of the Summer School as preparation. English is the language of tuition for the Summer School.
Participants will be selected by a scientific committee consisting of the organizer team and Barbara Summers (Leeds University), president-elect of EADM.
The Summer School Program:
The Summer School will consist of talks, tuition, practical exercises and discussion covering theory, applications and methods for JDM research. The sessions will be organized according to six main themes:
I.) Methodology in JDM Research (Frank Renkewitz, University of Erfurt): Current methodological debate, efficient research design & theory evaluation.
II.) Cognitive Modelling (Andreas Glöckner, University of Göttingen): Understanding, implementing, and testing cognitive models of choice.
III.) Bayesian Approaches to JDM (Benjamin Scheibehenne, University of Basel): Bayesian models for judgment and choice, Bayesian statistics and model comparison for JDM research.
IV.) Anti-social Decision Making and Cheating (Shaul Shalvi, Ben Gurion University): Investigating what and how JDM research can teach us about people’s (im)moral behaviors.
V.) Introduction to Eye-tracking (Susann Fiedler, MPI Bonn): Eye-tracking as a tool for investigating cognitive processes in JDM including hands on experience with the technology.
VI.) Social Decision Making (Carsten De Dreu, University of Amsterdam): Investigating the basic structures of social dilemmas as they emerge in (small) groups of people and how this translates into (i) social decision, and (ii) negotiating agreement. Special attention will be given to cooperative choice and negotiation strategies among representatives who navigate personal interests, those of their constituents (in-group), and those of the rivaling out-group.
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