LJDM Student Workshop 

FRIDAY MARCH 7th 2008

Decision Researchers from City University, Essex University, Imperial College, University College London and London Metropolitan University are organising a one day meeting on Judgment and Decision Making. This meeting is aimed at those students from these universities doing a third year option in Judgment and Decision Making, but anyone else who is interested is also welcome to attend (please email Tim Rakow [timrakow@essex.ac.uk]).

Confirmed speakers include Professor Marcel Zeelenberg (Tilburg University); Professor David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge University); Professor Nigel Harvey (University College London).

The event is free - a free lunch will refute a common assumption about its existence.  The day will consist of talks, games, demonstrations and possibly jokes on different topics within Judgment and Decision Making.

The day will take place at City University                          

There will be prizes for the winners.  A splendid time is guaranteed for all.                

                                                                   DIRECTIONS TO CITY

The Fourth London JDM Group Student Conference on Judgement and Decision Making

Friday 7^th March, 2008

City University, London EC1V

Provisional Programme

1100 to 1245 – Session One – Room D104 [Entrance from St John Street]

Professor Peter Ayton (Department of Psychology, City University)

Deal Or No Deal – Why Noel Edmonds is enough to make anyone cry.

Professor Nigel Harvey (Department of Psychology, University College London)

Activity: Let’s make a deal! Negotiation and bargaining.

Professor David Speigelhalter (Department of Statistics, University of Cambridge)

Using animations to communicate variability, chance, uncertainty and risk.

1245 to 1345 – Lunch

1345 to 1530 – Session Two – Lecture Theatre B104 [Entrance from Northampton Square]

Dr Mandeep Dhami (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge)

Getting Out and Staying Out: Prisoners’ Positive Illusions of Post-Release Success

1530 to 1600 – Coffee break

1600 to 1730 – Session Three  – Lecture Theatre B104 [Entrance from Northampton Square]

Professor Marcel Zeelenberg (University of Tilburg, Netherlands)

Not so ugly after all: When shame acts as a commitment device.

Dr David Hardman (Department of Psychology, London Metropolitan University)

Sex, death and emotion: The psychology of moral judgements.

Dr Nick Sevdalis (Imperial College Medical School)

Real decisions in unreal environments: Simulations as a means to studying surgical decision making.

1730 onwards ­– Drinks reception [Social Science Building]