Robyn Dawes
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robyn Mason Dawes was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of human judgment. His research interests included human irrationality, human cooperation, intuitive expertise, and the United States AIDS policy. He applied linear models to human decision making, including models with equal weights, a method known as unit-weighted regression. He co-wrote an early textbook on mathematical psychology .
Robyn Dawes's Published Works
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Published Works
- Clinical versus actuarial judgment. (1989) (2133)
- The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making. (1979) (1919)
- Linear models in decision making. (1974) (1813)
- Rational choice in an uncertain world (1988) (1310)
- Behavior, communication, and assumptions about other people's behavior in a commons dilemma situation. (1977) (1066)
- Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions (2000) (812)
- What you don't know won't hurt me: Costly (but quiet) exit in dictator games (2006) (656)
- Better decisions through science. (2000) (584)
- House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth (1994) (552)
- A case study of graduate admissions: Application of three principles of human decision making. (1971) (533)
- Explaining discussion-induced cooperation. (1988) (530)
- Mathematical psychology : an elementary introduction (1970) (472)
- Selfishness examined: Cooperation in the absence of egoistic incentives. (1989) (426)
- Swift Neighbors and Persistent Strangers: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation of Trust and Reciprocity in Social Exchange1 (2002) (422)
- Statistical criteria for establishing a truly false consensus effect (1989) (359)
- Not me or thee but we: the importance of group identity in eliciting cooperation in dilemma situatio (1988) (351)
- The Minimal Contributing Set as a Solution to Public Goods Problems (1983) (350)
- Organizing Groups for Collective Action (1986) (345)
- Social welfare, cooperators' advantage, and the option of not playing the game. (1993) (307)
- Factors influencing the use of a decision rule in a probabilistic task (1986) (300)
- Cooperation for the benefit of us—Not me, or my conscience. (1990) (245)
- A “Cognitive Miser” Theory of Cooperators Advantage (1991) (239)
- The False Consensus Effect and Overconfidence: Flaws in Judgment or Flaws in How We Study Judgment? (1996) (228)
- Psychotherapy outcome. Smith and Glass' conclusions stand up under scrutiny. (1982) (199)
- Fundamentals of attitude measurement (1972) (185)
- Formal Models of Dilemmas in Social Decision-Making (1974) (173)
- House of Cards (1996) (166)
- SOCIAL SELECTION BASED ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRITERIA. (1964) (162)
- Personal Recall and the Limits of Retrospective Questions in Surveys (1992) (157)
- Behavioral decision making and judgment. (1998) (156)
- Equating Inverse Probabilities in Implicit Personality Judgments (1993) (139)
- Trust, social categories, and individuals: The case of gender (1994) (139)
- The Superiority of Simple Alternatives to Regression for Social Science Predictions (2004) (130)
- The potential nonfalsity of the false consensus effect. (1990) (113)
- An Experimental Analysis of the Contrast Effect and Its Implications for Intergroup Communication and the Indirect Assessment of Attitude. (1972) (113)
- Belief in the unstructured interview: The persistence of an illusion (2013) (111)
- Preferences for Change: Do Individuals Prefer Voluntary Actions, Soft Regulations, or Hard Regulations to Decrease Fossil Fuel Consumption? (2009) (103)
- Psychological perspectives on justice: Fairness in groups: Comparing the self-interest and social identity perspectives (1993) (102)
- Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally (2001) (98)
- The Limits of Multilateral Promising (1990) (95)
- Memory and distortion of meaningful written material. (1966) (90)
- Representative thinking in clinical judgment (1986) (86)
- Anticipated versus actual reaction to HIV test results. (1999) (85)
- Social Dilemmas, Economic Self-Interest, and Evolutionary Theory (1991) (81)
- Graduate admission variables and future success. (1975) (80)
- Prediction of the future versus an understanding of the past: A basic asymmetry. (1993) (73)
- Religion, Context, and Constraint toward Strangers (1992) (73)
- A message from psychologists to economists: mere predictability doesn’t matter like it should (without a good story appended to it) ☆ (1999) (73)
- Experience and validity of clinical judgment: The illusory correlation. (1989) (71)
- A note on base rates and psychometric efficiency. (1962) (70)
- The evaluation of complex social stimuli. (1966) (69)
- Sex bias, diagnosis, and DSM-III (1986) (62)
- Reply to Kurosawa. (1984) (61)
- Mixed group validation: A method for determining the validity of diagnostic signs without using criterion groups. (1966) (59)
- Two methods for studying the incremental validity of a Rorschach variable. (1999) (59)
- Embedding effects: stimulus representation and response mode. (1993) (44)
- What You Don't Know Won't Hurt Me: Costly (But Quiet) Exit in a Dictator Game (2005) (44)
- The use of anatomically detailed dolls in sexual abuse evaluations: The state of the science (1993) (41)
- Problem formulation for multi-criteria decision analysis: Report of a workshop (1998) (41)
- Linear Prediction of Marital Happinessl (1976) (39)
- Embedding effects: Stimulus representation and response mode (1993) (38)
- Contextual Biases in the Interpretation of Auditory Evidence (2011) (36)
- The ethical implications of Paul Meehl's work on comparing clinical versus actuarial prediction methods. (2005) (36)
- Is irrationality systematic? (1983) (33)
- Policy Forum: Studying Eyewitness Investigations in the Field (2007) (30)
- Group-Based Trust in Social Dilemmas (2008) (30)
- The Decision to Pollute (1974) (28)
- The Ethics of Using or Not Using Statistical Prediction Rules in Psychological Practice and Related Consulting Activities (2002) (27)
- Suppose We Measured Height With Rating Scales Instead of Rulers (1977) (27)
- Cognitive Distortion (1964) (26)
- A base-rate bootstrap. (1982) (25)
- Judgment under uncertainty: The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making (1982) (25)
- Getting Out of Our Conceptual Ruts Strategies for Expanding Conceptual Frameworks (2001) (23)
- Subadditivity in Memory for Personal Events (1999) (21)
- The past and the future of forecasting research (1994) (20)
- Forecasting one's own preference (1986) (20)
- A Proximity Analysis of Vocally Expressed Emotion (1966) (19)
- Comparing Holistic and Disaggregated Ratings in the Evaluation of Scientific Presentations (2006) (17)
- Are people who cooperate ‘rational altruists’? (1988) (17)
- Clinical versus Actuarial Prediction (2001) (16)
- Heuristics and Biases: Clinical versus Actuarial Judgment (2002) (16)
- The purpose of experiments: Ecological validity versus comparing hypotheses (1996) (15)
- Stereotyping and Sampling Biases in Intergroup Perception (1984) (15)
- Costly ( but quiet ) exit in dictator games (2004) (14)
- 4 – CASE-BY-CASE VERSUS RULE GENERATED PROCEDURES FOR THE ALLOCATION OF SCARCE RESOURCES (1977) (13)
- Comment on Fiorello et al. “Interpreting Intelligence Test Results for Children with Disabilities: Is Global Intelligence Relevant?” (2007) (12)
- Ethics, Science, and the Helping Professions (2003) (12)
- How clinical probability judgment may be used to validate diagnostic signs. (1967) (11)
- The Nature of Human Nature: An Empirical Case for Withholding Judgment-Perhaps Indefinitely (1995) (11)
- Predictive Models as a Guide to Preference (1977) (10)
- Cloze Score as a Function of Attitude (1961) (9)
- A Theory Of Irrationality As A ‘Reasonable’ Response To An Incomplete Specification (2000) (9)
- Studying eyewitness investigations in the field (2008) (8)
- Algebraic models in psychology : proceedings of the NUFFIC international summer session in science at "Het Oude Hof", The Hague, august 5-17, 1968 (1968) (8)
- A Guttman Scale of Children's Coercive Behaviors. (1975) (8)
- You can't systematize human judgment: Dyslexia. (1988) (8)
- Incremental validity of the Ego Impairment Index: it's fine when it's there. (2001) (7)
- Statistical Prediction versus Clinical Prediction : Improving What Works (2016) (7)
- AIDS, Sterile Needles, and Ethnocentrism (1994) (7)
- "Interaction effects" in the presence of asymmetrical transfer. (1969) (7)
- Altruism: docility or group identification? (1991) (6)
- Clinical and statistical prediction after 50 years: a dedication to Paul Meehl (2006) (6)
- What Should Rational Cognitive Misers Do? (1991) (6)
- The logic of S-R matrices. (1963) (6)
- 5. Behavioral Economics (2010) (5)
- Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition: An Analysis of Structural Availability Biases, and a Brief Study (2005) (5)
- "Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo": Commentary on Kirsch and Saperstein. (1998) (4)
- Affirmative Action Programs: Discontinuities between Thoughts about Individuals and Thoughts about Groups (1994) (4)
- The social usefulness of self-esteem: a skeptical view. (1998) (4)
- IQ: Methodological and Other Issues. (1972) (4)
- Qualitative Consistency Masquerading as Quantitative Fit (1997) (4)
- Subjective value of the reinforcer (RSv) and performance: Crux of the S-R versus cognitive mediation controversy (1971) (4)
- Racial Norming: A Debate. (1993) (4)
- Monotone interactions: It's even simpler than that (1990) (3)
- Clyde Hamilton Coombs (1912–1988). (1989) (3)
- Multivariate Selection of Students in a Racist Society: A Systematically Unfair Approach (1976) (3)
- Random generators, ganzfelds, analysis, and theory (1987) (3)
- Case vignette: to share or not to share. (1992) (3)
- Reply to Orwin and Cordray. (1984) (2)
- The problem of child sexual abuse. (2005) (2)
- Standards for Psychotherapy (2001) (2)
- Inside the juror: Notes on the sampling of stimulus cases and the measurement of responses in research on juror decision making (1993) (2)
- The Mind, The Model, and The Task (2018) (2)
- On Getting People To Cooperate When Facing A Social Dilema: Moralizing Helps (1976) (2)
- Comments on Croyle and Loftus’s Recollections in the Kingdom of AIDS (2002) (2)
- In Reply: Clinical and Actuarial Judgment (1990) (2)
- Trends based on cotton candy correlations (1983) (2)
- Depression study. (1981) (2)
- In defense of "bootstrapping." (1972) (2)
- Reply to Calvert and Wilson (Vol. 78, June 1984, pp. 496-497) (1985) (1)
- In defense of rigorous evaluation. (1969) (1)
- Commentary on Meehl’s theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology (2004) (1)
- A Case Of Alleged Cutting-Up Murder In Sweden: Legal Consequences Of Public Outrage (2003) (1)
- Partial Round-Robin Comparisons with Perfect Rankings (1987) (1)
- Hypothetical studies and civil liberties. (1991) (1)
- Composition of Council: Some counterindicatory data. (1970) (1)
- An unexpected correlate of psychopathology among children of schizophrenic couples. (1968) (1)
- Thinking in sociality (1989) (1)
- Apologia for using what works. (1980) (1)
- How Do You Formulate a Testable Exciting Hypothesis (2010) (1)
- Conflicts of Interest: Commentary: On Tyler's “Managing Conflicts of Interest within Organizations” (2005) (1)
- Response : Clinical and Actuarial Judgment (1990) (0)
- Comment rationaliser les décisions (2000) (0)
- Depression study. (1981) (0)
- Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment (2018) (0)
- Subjective Statistical Inference Based on Pure Associations 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings -section on Statistical Education 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings -section on Statistical Education 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings -section on Statistical Education 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings -section o (2002) (0)
- Irrationality Is Abundant (2018) (0)
- Grass Roots Enthusiasm and the Primary Vote (1972) (0)
- SUBJECTIVE STATISTICAL INFERENCE BASED ON PURE ASSOCIATIONS (2003) (0)
- TheEthicalImplicationsofPaulMeehl'sWork onComparingClinicalVersusActuarial PredictionMethods (2005) (0)
- Racial preference and social choice. (1966) (0)
- Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality (2018) (0)
- Evaluating a new gel for the relief of pain in the primary dentition of infants. (1962) (0)
- Applications of Linear Models to Problems of Preference and Prediction. (1976) (0)
- Anti-Group Behavior (1975) (0)
- Errata (2003) (0)
- Thesis Length and Productivity. (1970) (0)
- Math-based aids for making decisions in medicine and industry could improve many diagnoses — often saving lives in the process Better DECISIONS through SCIENCE (2000) (0)
- Thagard's Principle 7 and Simpson's paradox (1989) (0)
- Kurt Lewin Memorial Award: M. Brewster Smith (1986) (0)
- Stochastic Modeling for the Fascinated. (1973) (0)
- Sexual Abuse Hysteria (2018) (0)
- Letter to the Editor: Survey Biases and Sample Sizes (1997) (0)
- The analysis of discrete public goods problems within a social dilemma and half-dilemma framework (1985) (0)
- Irrationality: Emotional, Cognitive, Both, or Neither? (2018) (0)
- 10. It All Adds Up: The Dynamic Coherence of Radical Probabilism It All Adds Up: The Dynamic Coherence of Radical Probabilism (pp. S98-S103) (2002) (0)
- Predictive Modelsasa Guideto Preference (1977) (0)
- The Evolution and Future of Competitions (2010) (0)
- [Savage Revisited]: Comment (1986) (0)
- In defense of "bootstrapping": Erratum. (1972) (0)
- Utility, Probability, and Human Decision Making: Call it a Mixed Bag. (1977) (0)
- Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story (2018) (0)
- Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value) (2018) (0)
- Problems in Testing. (1965) (0)
- Further Attempts to Establish Differences Between People Who Cooperate and People Who Defect in Playing an Experimental Commons Dilemma Game (1976) (0)
- Irrationality Has Consequences (2018) (0)
- Merit and Bias (2010) (0)
- Irrationality as a "Reasonable" Response to an Incomplete Specification (2018) (0)
- Development of Response Equivalence among Dissimilar Verbal Units (1967) (0)
- Reducing occultation data using BASIC and a home computer. (1988) (0)
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