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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Hillel J. Einhorn was an American psychologist who played a key role in the development of the field of behavioral decision theory. Einhorn earned BA and MA degrees at Brooklyn College, married Susan Michaels in 1966, and received his PhD in psychology from Wayne State University in 1969 under the supervision of Alan Bass. In 1969, Einhorn joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He was promoted to professor in 1976 and appointed to the Wallace W. Booth professorship in 1986. In addition to his research contributions, Einhorn restructured the behavioral science curriculum by providing a specific focus on behavioral decision theory, and founded the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago in 1977. Einhorn died of Hodgkin's disease on January 8, 1987, at the age of 45.

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Hillel J. Einhorn's Published Works

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BEHAVIORAL DECISION THEORY: PROCESSES OF JUDGMENT AND CHOICE (1981) (1958)
Order effects in belief updating: The belief-adjustment model (1992) (1543)
Confidence in judgment: Persistence of the illusion of validity. (1978) (1166)
Judging probable cause. (1986) (929)
Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Probabilistic Inference. (1985) (833)
Decision Making under Ambiguity (1986) (651)
Unit weighting schemes for decision making (1975) (635)
Expression theory and the preference reversal phenomena. (1987) (566)
The use of nonlinear, noncompensatory models in decision making. (1970) (538)
Linear regression and process-tracing models of judgment. (1979) (426)
Expert measurement and mechanical combination (1972) (399)
Use of nonlinear, noncompensatory models as a function of task and amount of information (1971) (384)
Cognitive processes in choice and decision behavior (1979) (369)
Venture Theory: A Model of Decision Weights (1990) (365)
Expert judgment: Some necessary conditions and an example. (1974) (332)
Quality of Group Judgment (1977) (269)
Judgment under uncertainty: Learning from experience and suboptimal rules in decision making (1982) (234)
Insights in decision making : a tribute to Hillel J. Einhorn (1990) (207)
Accepting error to make less error. (1986) (166)
Prediction, Diagnosis, and Causal Thinking in Forecasting (1982) (136)
A Simple Multiattribute Utility Procedure for Evaluation (1977) (87)
Methodological considerations relevant to discrimination in employment testing. (1971) (80)
ALCHEMY IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (1972) (76)
A Theory of Diagnostic Inference. I. Imagination and the Psychophysics of Evidence. (1982) (54)
A Synthesis: Accounting and Behavioral Science (1976) (53)
Motivation Theory and Job Design (1976) (50)
Cue definition and residual judgment. (1974) (35)
A Contrast/Surprise Model for Updating Beliefs (1985) (33)
Decision Making Under Ambiguity: A Note (1988) (31)
An exponential discrepancy model for attitude evaluation (1971) (19)
Optimal Strategies for Personnel Selection When Candidates Can Reject Offers (1976) (18)
A Theory of Diagnostic Inference: Judging Causality. (1983) (17)
Multidimensional models for the evaluation of political candidates (1972) (14)
Rationality and the sanctity of competence (1981) (11)
A Model of the Conjunction Fallacy. (1985) (11)
A Theory of Preference Reversals. (1984) (11)
6 – DECISIONS BASED ON FALLIBLE CLINICAL JUDGMENT (1977) (7)
Attractiveness of the “Middle of the Road” Political Candidate (1972) (5)
Probable Cause: A Decision Making Framework. (1984) (5)
Responsibility of journal editors and referees. (1971) (4)
Expression theory and the measurement of apparently labile values (1989) (3)
REPLY TO MORGAN AND ANDREWS (1973) (3)
On Hebb's criticism of Jensen. (1970) (2)
Decision Making: REPLY TO COMMENTARIES (1988) (1)
A Theory of Diagnostic Inference: Contract Final Report, (1983) (0)
A Theory of Diagnostic Inference: Contract Progress Report. (1987) (0)
Random strategies and “ran-dumb” behavior (1984) (0)

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