Richard Gonzalez
Center Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR
Director, BioSocial Methods Collaborative, RCGD, ISR,
Amos N Tversky Collegiate Professor, Psychology and Statistics, LSA
Professor of Marketing, Stephen M Ross School of Business
Professor of Integrative Systems and Design, College of Engineering
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| Address: | Research Center for Group Dynamics Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 426 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 |
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Articles in Psychology
When emotions are both positive and negative
We propose a new measure for assessing mixed emotions over daily activities in older adults. The Activity Affective Complexity score is demonstrated in a subsample of older adults from the Health and Retirement Survey.
Brain differences in how obsessive-compulsive patients process uncertainty compared to controls
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with pathological uncertainty regarding whether an action has been performed correctly or whether a bad outcome will occur, leading to compulsive ‘‘evidence gathering’’ behaviors aimed at reducing uncertainty. The current study used…
Extending our approach of choosing the next query in decision making studies: Testing probability weighting functions
Probability weighting functions relate objective probabilities and their subjective weights, and play a central role in modeling choices under risk within cumulative prospect theory. While several different parametric forms have been proposed, their qualitative similarities make it challenging to…
Does having a companion present when consulting an oncologist help the cancer patient process information better?
Most patients have companions present during oncology visits; we investigated whether companions process information more accurately than patients.
A call to take a population approach to neuroscience
We describe and promote a perspective—population neuroscience—that leverages interdisciplinary expertise to (i) emphasize the importance of sampling to more clearly define the relevant populations and sampling strategies needed when using neuroscience methods to address such questions; and (ii) deepen understanding of mechanisms within population science by providing insight regarding underlying neural mechanisms.
What does the ratio of physician-patient talk time during actual medical interactions have to do with race?
This study examined how (a) non-Black primary care physicians’ explicit and implicit racial bias and (b) Black patients’ perceived past discrimination affected physician–patient talk time ratio (i.e., the ratio of physician to patient talk time) during medical interactions and the relationship between this ratio and patients’ subsequent adherence.
Health disparities among blacks: It isn’t just due to skin color
The study suggests that even subtle differences in Afrocentric features can have serious long-term health consequences among Blacks. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
Exploiting a well-known bias to infer some detailed properties of how we distort probabilities
We make use of a series of choice questions based on the common consequence setup, much like the classic Allais problem, to show that we can infer concavity and convexity properties of how we distort probabilities in decision.
Using computer adaptive methods to select the next query in a decision making study
We extend the adaptive design optimization (ADO) approach to decision making under risk. ADO is a Bayesian method that adapts the experimental design in real time; it chooses the next question that can maximally discriminate the predictions of competing theories.
When words speak louder than actions
The behavior of others serves an important cue in our decision making, but we show cases where sometimes we are more influenced by an individual’s evaluation than their actions, suggesting that at times words can speak louder than actions.
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