Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience: The University of Chicago
Reid Hastie
The University of Chicago
Graduate School of Busisness
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637Office Phone: (773) 834-9167
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Faculty
Reid Hastie
Position
Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science
Ph.D., Yale Univeristy, 1973
M.A., University of California, San Diego, 1970
B.S., Stanford University, 1968
Research
Judgment and decision making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and personal), the neural substrates of decision processes, memory and cognition, and social psychology. Some currently active research topics include: the impact of rumors and "news" on stock market forecasts; the effects of background characteristics, such as race, on valuations of human life; the role of explanations in category concept representations (including the effects on category classification, deductive and inductive inferences); civil jury decision making; neural and physiological substrates of risky decision making; and the psychology of reading statistical graphs and maps.Selected Publications
With N. Pennington, "Explanation-based decision making," in T. Connolly, H. R. Arkes, and K. R. Hammond, eds., Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). "Problems for judgment and decision making," Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 52 (2001). With R.M. Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making (California: Sage Publishers, 2001). With T. Kameda, "The robust beauty of majority rules," Psychological Review (2005). With A.G. Sanfey, "The neuroscience of decision making," in E.E. Smith and S.M. Kosslyn, eds., Cognition: Mind and Brain (New York: Prentice Hall, 2006).
