Pre Conference on Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Personality and Social Psychology to be held @ Carnegie Mellon University, January 2006

我们国家面临的许多最重要的公共政策问题都涉及人类的判断和决策。例如，如何最好地传达恐怖主义的风险，如何最好地鼓励退休储蓄，以及如何最好地阻止不健康的饮食选择，这些问题的答案都或多或少地围绕着对人类判断和决策的理解。因此，让多学科的科学来承担这个主题是很重要的。特别是，以上概述的政策问题至少应该同时借鉴社会心理学、人格心理学、认知心理学、决策科学和经济学。为了在这个多方面的关键时刻促进对研究协同作用的更多关注，这个项目的主要活动将是在人格与社会心理学学会2006年年会之前召开关于判断和决策的预会议。包括诺贝尔奖得主丹尼尔·卡尼曼在内的会前发言人将代表一些在判断和决策方面最重要的研究进展。他们不仅包括心理学家，还包括经济学家、决策科学家和神经科学家。所要求的资金将主要用于两个目的。首先，基金将为研究生提供奖学金，以促进他们参加会前会议。第二，资金将用于支付与演讲者演讲有关的设备租金。这将使会前会议的注册费保持在较低水平，尤其是对研究生而言。除了将这组研究人员聚集在一起所固有的智力进步之外，该项目更广泛的影响将是增加有才华的学生参与跨学科的判断和决策主题。如上所述，由于在判断和决策中研究的许多问题具有直接的政策应用，因此在这一领域增加研究将有助于建立一个重要的公共利益知识库。

Many of the most important public policy questions facing our nation concern human judgment and decision making. For example, answers to questions concerning how to best communicate risks of terrorism, how to best encourage retirement savings, and how to best discourage unhealthy eating choices all revolve to a greater or lesser extent on understanding human judgment and decision making. It is important, therefore, to bring multi-disciplinary sciences to bear on this topic. In particular, the policy questions outlined above should simultaneously draw on at least social psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, decision science, and economics. In order to foster increased attention to research synergies at this multifaceted juncture, this project's main activity will be a preconference on judgment and decision making preceding the 2006 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The preconference speakers, including Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, will represent some of the most important research advances in judgment and decision making. They will include not only psychologists, but also economists, decision scientists, and neuroscientists. The requested funds will be used primarily for two purposes. First, funds will provide scholarships to graduate students to facilitate their participation in the preconference. Second, funds will pay for equipment rentals related to speakers' presentations. This will allow the preconference to keep registration fees low, especially for graduate students. In addition to the intellectual advances inherent in bringing this group of researchers together, the broader impact of this project will be to increase the participation of talented students in the interdisciplinary topic of judgment and decision making. Because many of the questions studied in judgment and decision making have direct policy application, as described above, increased research in this area will contribute to an important knowledge base for the public good.