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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory

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The DDMLab is part of the Social and Decision Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Our interdisciplinary lab studies how humans make choices, learn, and use experiences to make decisions in dynamic environments. Find us at ddmlab.com!

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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a recent episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) discussed how human cognition and AI can complement each other to drive better societal outcomes. To listen to the full episode: smartercampus.bepodcast.network/episodes/ai-... #AI #SocietalDecisionMaking #HumanCenteredAI
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Smarter Campus Podcast | AI Should Think With Us, Not For Us: Coty Gonzalez on Human Decision-Making
In this episode of The Smarter Campus Podcast, Zach sits down with Dr. Cleotilde “Coty” Gonzalez, Research Professor of Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, founding director of the Dyn...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The DDMLab is well represented well at this year's ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (ci.acm.org/2026/)! Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) will be giving a CI talk and Grace Roessling will be presenting a poster. Read more here! Coty: ci.acm.org/2026/pdf/CI_... Grace: ci.acm.org/2026/pdf/CI_... #HCI
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ACM Collective Intelligence 2026
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory is proud to release the 18th issue of our annual lab newsletter. You may view it as a flipbook or directly from our webpage! online.fliphtml5.com/atvjl/DDMLab...
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DDMLab Newsletter 2026
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You can now view Coty Gonzalez's Key Note Address at ICCM 2026! Learn about the cognitive foundations of designing complementary intelligence into Human-AI teams. Complementarity human–AI systems adapt to the other and leverage their distinct strengths. mathpsych.org/presentation... #ICCM #HCI #CMU
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Society for Mathematical Psychology
Online conferences, news, membership functions, and information about the Society
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Time is running out to submit proposals for the 2026 Human-AI Complementarity Workshop hosted by the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. If you're working on how humans and AI systems can coordinate, learn, and make better decisions together over time, we want to hear from you! #AI #HCI
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On July 18, Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) will be a keynote speaker at this year's MathPsych/ICCM conference in Montreal! Coty will discuss how computational cognitive models can guide the design of AI systems that enhance human decision-making. mathpsych.org/presentation... #MathPsych #ICCM #AI #HCI
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) sees a future where humans and AI work together as teammates. She and a cohort of collaborators have recently published three papers investigating the facets of “cognitive AI” and how it could partner with humans on teams. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new... #CMU #HCI #AI
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The Next Generation of AI Won’t Replace Humans – It Will Work With Them
Cleotilde Gonzalez envisions a future in which artificial intelligence works with humans, rather than replacing them.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You may now submit abstracts for the AI-SDM's Human-Al Complementarity Workshop! This year's focus will be on designing AI systems that not only emulate human preferences, but also coordinate effectively with humans over trajectories of interaction. www.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/resea... #HCI #CMU #human-ai
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The C.O.R.A. disaster management game, developed at the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making, is a finalist for the 2026 GEE! Learning Game Awards! People’s Choice voting is now live if you’d like to support us uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #games #cmu #computergames #aisdm #gee
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GEE! Awards
Vote for the GEE! Learning Game People's Choice Award!
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Lab member Jeffrey Flagg's art submission to the 2026 CMU Community Picnic. The acrylic piece is inspired by CMU's brand standard color palette.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) and recent work "Toward a science of human–AI teaming for decision making: A complementarity framework" were featured at Tech Xplore (@sciencex.bsky.social). Learn about structuring Human/AI collaborations to achieve complementarity! techxplore.com/news/2026-04... #AI #HCI
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Collective intelligence framework shows how human-AI teams may make better decisions
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions about health, safety, finance, and governance, a key challenge is no longer whether people and AI will collaborate, but rather ho...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
With the NFL draft approaching, Carnegie Mellon University experts Steve Chase, Cleotilde Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social), and Tim Derdenger explore decision making in these types of uncertain, high pressure, dynamic environments. www.cmu.edu/news/stories... #CMU #nfldraft #decisionmaking
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Inside the High-Stakes Decisions of the NFL Draft
On NFL draft day, every team has the chance to win — or lose — big. With millions of dollars on the line and just minutes to make a final decision on each pick, a single choice can shape a franchise f...
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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 24/03/2026
A Perspective examines how human-AI teams can be effective, transparent, trustworthy and fundamentally human-centered. The authors draw insights from cognitive science, AI, human factors, organizational behavior, and ethics. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/CYJj50YxES0
Illustration of two human hands and one robotic hand collaborating to connect puzzle pieces. Stock image.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Read this new paper led by @cotyg.bsky.social, titled "Toward a science of human–AI teaming for decision-making: A complementarity framework." Learn how cognitive science, human factors, organizational behavior can improve Human-AI decision making. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad... #HCI #HumanAI #AI
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Toward a science of human–AI teaming for decision-making: A complementarity framework
Abstract. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions involving health, safety, finance, and governance, the key challenge is no
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Read Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and Tailia Malloy's new paper “Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI,” in Current Directions in Psychological Science! Learn about "complementary intelligence" in Human/AI systems! doi.org/10.1177/0963... #AI #CognitiveScience
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Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI - Cleotilde Gonzalez, Tailia Malloy, 2026
This article calls for complementary human-AI intelligence. Rather than redefining intelligence to fit machine capabilities, we argue for designing AI that comp...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
AI-SDM Director, Aarti Singh, and Co-Director, Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will present a tutorial "Human-Centered AI: Challenges and Opportunities" at the AAAI (@aaai.org) Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Learn more about their tutorial here: www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/AAAI2... #AAAI26 #CMU
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Anu Aggarwal is at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) presenting work titled "Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions." Exploiting cognitive biases may help us design more robust protections against cyber attacks! #HICSS #CMU #PicoCTF
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As the year winds down, DDMLab members enjoy some of our annual holiday traditions!
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
DDMLab director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and her work with AI-SDM are featured in a new video accompanying the Department of Finance's annual report. She highlights learning more about the benefits and capabilities of human-AI collaborations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1F... #CMU #AI-SDM
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2025 Financial Impact Report Video
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Last week Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) spoke at the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. She discussed the concept of Cognitive AI, which emphasizes how humans and AI can support each other in dynamic environments. tdai.osu.edu/news/tdai-sp... #HumanAI #AI #CMU #OhioState #AISDM #TDAI
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Check out Tailia Malloy's (@tailiamalloy.bsky.social) new paper "Improving online anti-phishing training using cognitive large language models" in Computers in Human Behavior. Learn about crafting training emails and how cognitive LLM's can enhance learning! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #phishing #LLM
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Last weekend, DDMLab member Xiaohong Cai traveled to California to observe disaster management training with the American Red Cross Training Services. A major goal of our lab is developing artificial agents to assist professional relief managers during disasters. #AmericanRedCross #HumanAI #AI
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Read our new paper “A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making” published with Springer Nature in Nature Portfolio-Nature Reviews Psychology. We examine how Cognitive AI can help design systems that complement human capabilities. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making - Nature Reviews Psychology
Complex decision-making tasks can be addressed with artificial intelligence (AI) systems that complement human capabilities. In this Perspective, Gonzalez and Heidari provide a conceptual framework to...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen discussing cognitive modeling and Instance-Based Learning Theory at the AI-SDM annual workshop! www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-sdm...
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We are currently immersed in Part I of the "Modeling and Measuring Human Decisions" tutorial at our Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making workshop! Led by Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez and ...
We are currently immersed in Part I of the "Modeling and Measuring Human Decisions" tutorial at our Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making workshop! Led by Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez and Dr. Ngoc N...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The DDMLab is ready! The NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM)'s annual workshop brings together leading experts on human-AI complementarity. We are honored to join them! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#ai #societaldecisionmaking #nsf #humanai #decisionmaking #workshop #innovation #aivo | NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM)
Are you ready? Because we are! The excitement is building for our workshop on Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making, kicking off tomorrow at Carnegie Mellon University's Cohen University Cente...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The DDMLab is proud to announce its 17th issue of the annual lab newsletter. The newsletter features updates on the progress of our work and news from our lab members. We hope you enjoy it! View as a pdf www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds... Or as a flipbook online.fliphtml5.com/atvjl/hiaw/#...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Read how dimensions of spatial coordination influence collective intelligence and group performance in former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen's paper "Measuring Implicit Spatial Coordination in Teams" presented at the ACM (@acm.org) 2025 Collective Intelligence Conference! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Listen to Erin Bugbee at CogSci 2025 discuss how people set and adjust thresholds and whether this affects search behavior and learning over time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3k... #CogSci2025 @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Setting and Adjusting Thresholds in an Optimal Stopping Task - Bugbee & Gonzalez - CogSci 2025
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our paper, Training Users Against Human and GPT-4 Generated Social Engineering Attacks, led by Tai Malloy has won the best paper award at the 7TH International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust. Congratulations to Tai, Maria, Fei, and Coty! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Training Users Against Human and GPT-4 Generated Social Engineering Attacks
Social engineering attacks such as phishing emails remain a critical method for cybercriminals to exploit sensitive data. Although the threat of AI-generated content in such attacks is growing, curren...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In a new paper in "Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans," led by Yinuo Du, we explore how autonomous teammates’ abilities/competencies impact team outcomes using the Team Defense Game, a platform for investigating teaming in cyber defense scenarios. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Experimental evaluation of cognitive agents for collaboration in human-autonomy cyber defense teams
Autonomous agents are becoming increasingly prevalent and capable of collaborating with humans on interdependent tasks as teammates. There is increasi…
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The DDMLab will be well represented at the Cognitive Science Society's (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) annual conference CogSci 2025! Erin Bugbee & Roderick Seow will present a poster & full paper, and Ty Malloy will present a poster & abstract. cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2025/ #CogSci2025
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CogSci 2025 - Cognitive Science Society
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
DDMLab members and collaborators, led by Yinuo Du, have had their paper "Experimental Evaluation of Cognitive Agents for Collaboration in Human-Autonomy Cyber Defense Teams" accepted in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Congratulations! www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Anu Aggarwal has had her paper "Cognitive Biases in Cyber Attacker Decision-Making: Translating Behavioral Insights into Cybersecurity" accepted at the 2025 Active Defense & Deception / IEEE EuroS&P Workshop! This workshop promotes proactive engagement with attackers during cyber attacks. adnd.work
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4th Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D) <br> July 4th 2025, Venice <br> co-located with the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas.org), the world’s largest general scientific society! The distinction is a lifetime honor achievement within the organization. www.cmu.edu/news/stories... #CMU #AAAS
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Allstot, Choset, Gonzalez Elected AAAS Fellows
Carnegie Mellon University’s Howie Choset and Cleotilde “Coty” Gonzalez have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
For Women's History Month Carnegie Mellon University is featuring the work of women across the STEM fields including DDMLab Director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social)! Read how these woman promote mentorship, outreach, and career success at CMU! www.cmu.edu/news/stories... #WomansHistoryMonth #CMU
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Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success
At Carnegie Mellon, women in the sciences contribute to advancement and innovations at the forefront of discovery, while lifting each other along the way.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
DDMLab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence!
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Next week lab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald will be presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Erin will be presenting a poster and Chase will be giving a short presentation. Congratulations both! aaai.org/conference/a...
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AAAI-25 Bridge Program - AAAI
AAAI is pleased to present the AAAI-25 Bridge Program which includes 9 Bridges covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at AAAI Bridge Program's Collaborative AI and Modeling of Human meeting in Philadelphia, February 25th. CAIHu aims to bring together human-AI modeling researchers to exchange theories, ideas, and methods. sites.google.com/view/caihu25...
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Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods have yielded unprecedented results, even surpassing human performance on a variety of well-defined tasks. However, most real-world problems, especially...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) was in action today at an executive education workshop hosted by CMU's CyLab. Learn more about CyLab's workshops here: www.cylab.cmu.edu/education/ex...
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A new paper, led by Yinuo Du has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Social Computing! They design adversarial agents that learn. Look for it soon! Du, Prebot, Malloy, Fang, & Gonzalez. A Cyber-War Between Bots: Human-Like Attackers are More Challenging for Defenders than Deterministic Attackers.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In this Management Science paper, we collaborate with friends from INSEAD Singapore to explore organizational learning at the individual and group level using a combination of experimental data and computational modeling. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.... @cotyg.bsky.social #ManagementScience
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
DDMLab member Roderick Seow will be presenting a poster at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in NYC! His work investigates the role of theory-of-mind in Human-AI coordination. Congratulations! www.psychonomic.org/page/2024ann...
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2024 Annual Meeting - Psychonomic Society
The Psychonomic Society's 65th Annual Meeting will take place November 21-24, 2024, in New York City, New York, USA. The Annual Meeting is recognized as the most important international meeting of cognitive psychologists coming from over 40 countries, including some of the field’s most distinguished researchers, innovative early career investigators, and students already making important scientific contributions.Each year the meeting features a keynote address, five symposia, concurrent sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and receptions. What brings us together is that we study the basic, fundamental properties of how the mind works by using behavioral techniques to better understand mental functioning.Join over 2,700 of your colleagues during this dynamic three-day meeting at the New York Marriott Marquis providing you with the opportunity to present research, hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field, and develop collaborations that can enhance your career. With over 1,650 high-quality scientific research presentations, you will be provided with opportunities for scientific exchange, collaboration, and engagement.
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Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory @ddmlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The DDMLab (@ddmlab.bsky.social) will be well represented at this year's SJDM (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) Annual Meeting in NYC. Chase McDonald and Roderick Seow will be presenting posters, and Erin Bugbee will be giving an oral presentation. Congratulations all!
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