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Category: Real World Scenario

How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot

January 1, 2018 David J. Johnson, Joseph Cesario, and Timothy J. Pleskac

Social psychologists have relied on computerized shooting tasks to test whether race influences decisions to shoot. These studies reveal that…

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Posted in: Choice Environment, Evidence Accumulation, Police Shootings, Real World Scenario Filed under: publication

A detection model of college withdrawal

January 1, 2011 Timothy J. Pleskac, Jessica Keeney, Stephanie M. Merritt, Neal Schmitt, and Frederick L. Oswald

Many students during their college careers consider withdrawing from their respective college or university. Understanding why some students decide to…

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Posted in: Decision Making, Real World Scenario, Signal Detection, Student Withdrawal Filed under: publication

Decision making and learning while taking sequential risks

January 1, 2008 Timothy J. Pleskac

A sequential risk-taking paradigm used to identify real-world risk takers invokes both learning and decision processes. This article expands the…

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Posted in: Adaptive Toolbox, Decision Making, Real World Scenario, Risk-Reward Filed under: publication

Modeling Behavior in a Clinically Diagnostic Sequential Risk-Taking Task

January 1, 2005 Thomas S. Wallsten, Timothy J. Pleskac, and C. W. Lejuez

This article models the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential choice in a risk-taking task for the purposes of understanding…

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Posted in: Adaptive Toolbox, Real World Scenario, Risk-Reward Filed under: publication

Lab News

  • Dr. Pleskac to join panel discussion on Mapping Behavior Around the Virus: Behavioral Scientists Examine Activity Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
  • The ecology of competition: A theory of risk–reward environments in adaptive decision making
  • Dr. Pleskac to give a talk at the Science Matters Brown Bag Lunch and Learn: Tools for Thinking about Risk During the Pandemic
  • Dr. Pleskac joins Living Lab Radio for podcast on Taming Uncertainty
  • Institute for Policy & Social Research 2018-2019 Luncheon
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