Theories of Judgment and Decision Making

Call for Papers

Since the seminal experiments of Allais, Ellsberg, Kahneman, Tversky, and others in the 1950s and 1960s, maximization of expected utility has lost its place as the dominant paradigm in the theory of human and animal decision making. Numerous other quantifiable theories, including Kahneman and Tversky's own prospect theory, have been developed that reproduce substantial amounts of behavioral judgment and decision data. Yet no single decision theory has emerged as globally dominant, so that synthesis and refinement of existing theoretical paradigms continue at a rapid pace. The growth of cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging data, and neural network modeling has put some of the quantitative cognitive decision theories on a more solid basis but has not settled the arguments between practitioners in the field.

Hence, we are soliciting papers for a special issue on theories of judgment and decision making for an interdisciplinary audience including neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, engineers, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists, and artificial intelligence investigators, among others. The special issue welcomes, but is not limited to, papers covering the following topics:

• Computational models of specific classes of behavioral decision paradigms, such as gambling tasks, framing effects, ratio biases, base rate neglect, among others
• Theories of the effects of affective arousal or specific emotions on risky decision making or numerical judgment
• Theories on the role of attention, memory, and context in decision making
• Models and theories covering many types of decisions including consumer decisions and moral decisions
• Theories of the effects of particular brain regions on decision making, such as regions involved in planning and executive function (prefrontal cortex), reward (striatum, dopamine, and opiate pathways), and emotional salience (amygdala and insula)
• Theories of animal foraging decisions, including any analogies between animal foraging behavior and human economic behavior
• Judgment aggregation and computational social choice, voting theory, preference modeling, and reasoning, computational aspects of preference aggregation
• Expository arguments in support of or opposition to one or more known theoretical paradigms, such as prospect theory, decision field theory, cognitive-experiential self-theory, fuzzy trace theory, or adaptive resonance theory

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/cin/tjd/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Daniel S. Levine, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019-0528, USA

Guest Editors

• Narayanan Srinivasan, Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India
• Francesca Rossi, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italy