[ACT-R-users] Special Issue Recognition Processes in Inferential Decision Making - call for papers

[Marewski, Julian]

The journal Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org/) will publish a special issue on Recognition Processes in Inferential Decision Making, edited by Julian N. Marewski, Rüdiger F. Pohl, and Oliver Vitouch. Interested contributors are referred to a more detailed outline of the intended content as well as the technical requirements, including deadlines, below.

 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Judgment and Decision Making on 
Recognition Processes in Inferential Decision Making

 

Many studies have investigated how people make decisions based on their previous encounters with an object or situation. For instance, researchers have examined how consumers rely on their familiarity with brand names when inferring which consumer goods are likely to be quality products. One recent model that operates on such a sense of recognition is the recognition heuristic (Goldstein & Gigerenzer, 1999, 2002). According to this particularly simple rule of thumb, probabilistic inferences about unknown quantities and uncertain events are based solely on recognition information-even when other knowledge can be retrieved from memory. As such, the heuristic links one of the most basic processes of memory-recognition-and decision making under uncertainty. 

The recognition heuristic has been the subject of a large amount of research-in judgment and decision making and in other fields. This research has largely been motivated by a highly controversial debate about whether, when, and how people base their decisions on recognition information, how accurate these decisions can be, and whether and how the recognition heuristic differs from related decision strategies, such as the various notions of fluency or availability. The planned special issue strives not only to give an overview of the current debate but also to present the latest research and theoretical developments in this domain of decision making, giving researchers the opportunity to present and evaluate models of decision making that are based on recognition processes.

Another goal is to bring together advocates and critics of the fast-and-frugal heuristics approach (e.g., Gigerenzer, Todd, & the ABC Research Group, 1999), which is the framework in which the recognition heuristic was originally developed, thereby highlighting and potentially resolving some of the controversial issues. This objective is reflected in the composition of the special issue's editors: While Julian Marewski has at times acted more as a proponent of the recognition heuristic, Rüdiger Pohl can be considered one of its critics. Oliver Vitouch, in turn, holds the middle ground. In bringing together researchers with different theoretical positions, the editors will seek to integrate the emerging theories on the recognition heuristic and other inferential strategies into an overarching framework of decision making under uncertainty. At the same time, they hope to encourage a deeper understanding of the role of recognition in inferential decision making, tackle unresolved questions about the scope and nature of the underlying processes, and shed light on memory and decision making, alike.

 

Submitted articles should make a new contribution to the field, preferably by presenting original empirical results with profound theoretical consequences. Papers with well-developed theoretical arguments are also welcome.

Interested contributors are asked to contact Julian Marewski (by e-mail: marewski[at]mpib-berlin[dot]mpg[dot]de) and to submit, as a preliminary step, a summary of the intended contribution (about 200 words). These will be evaluated by the guest editors in terms of their individual scope and suitability for the special issue and checked for possible overlap between contributions. Feedback will be given to the authors to inform their actual contributions. The deadline for the submission of summaries is June 7, 2009. The deadline for submitting a full paper will be September 30, 2009.

 

All submissions will be subject to the journal's regular peer review process under the direction of the guest editors and Jonathan Baron, the journal's editor-in-chief. If an article is accepted, the final version must adhere to the technical guidelines of the journal, available at http://journal.sjdm.org/submit.htm <http://journal.sjdm.org/submit.htm> .    

 

Julian N. Marewski

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Rüdiger F. Pohl

University of Mannheim, Germany

Oliver Vitouch

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

 

References

Gigerenzer, G., Todd, P. M., & the ABC Research Group. (1999). Simple heuristics that make us smart. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goldstein, D. G., & Gigerenzer, G. (1999). The recognition heuristic: How ignorance makes us smart. In G. Gigerenzer, P. M. Todd, & the ABC Research Group, Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 37-48). New York: Oxford University Press.

Goldstein, D. G., & Gigerenzer, G. (2002). Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic. Psychological Review, 109, 75-90.

 
 
 

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Julian Marewski

 

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Email:  marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de

 

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

(Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung)

Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition

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