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Overview

Barbara A. Mellers is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, with a significant focus on decision sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Decision Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Barbara A. Mellers' work explores various subfields such as economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence. Other relevant areas include general decision sciences and safety research.

Key subfields of study are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Safety Research

The topics covered in their research include forecasting techniques and applications, sports analytics and performance, decision-making and behavioral economics, experimental behavioral economics studies, and complex systems and time series analysis. Additional research topics include mental health and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Main topics of work include:

  • Forecasting Techniques and Applications
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Barbara A. Mellers has published articles in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • International Journal of Forecasting
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science (2021) published in Nature
  • Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved (2023) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Small steps to accuracy: Incremental belief updaters are better forecasters (2020) published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Wise teamwork: Collective confidence calibration predicts the effectiveness of group discussion (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Bias, Information, Noise: The BIN Model of Forecasting (2021) published in Management Science

Barbara A. Mellers has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Philip E. Tetlock
  • Pavel Atanasov
  • Louise Lu
  • Lyle Ungar
  • Jens Witkowski

Best Publications

  • Emotion-based choice

    Barbara Mellers;Alan Schwartz;Ilana Ritov

  • Decision Affect Theory: Emotional Reactions to the Outcomes of Risky Options

    Barbara A. Mellers;Alan J. Schwartz;Katty Ho;Ilana Ritov

  • Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences.

    Barbara A. Mellers

  • Anticipated emotions as guides to choice.

    Barbara A. Mellers;A. Peter McGraw

  • Do Frequency Representations Eliminate Conjunction Effects? An Exercise in Adversarial Collaboration

    Barbara Mellers;Ralph Hertwig;Daniel Kahneman

  • Racial prejudice and attitudes toward affirmative action

    James H. Kuklinski;Paul M. Sniderman;Kathleen Knight;Thomas Piazza

  • Extending the Bounds of Rationality: Evidence and Theories of Preferential Choice

    Jörg Rieskamp;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Barbara A. Mellers

  • Strong Claims and Weak Evidence: Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard;Jonathan Klick;Barbara Mellers

  • The Agony of Victory and Thrill of Defeat Mixed Emotional Reactions to Disappointing Wins and Relieving Losses

    Jeff T. Larsen;A. Peter McGraw;Barbara A. Mellers;John T. Cacioppo

  • Psychological Strategies for Winning a Geopolitical Forecasting Tournament

    Barbara Mellers;Lyle Ungar;Jonathan Baron;Jaime Ramos

  • The effects of pictorial realism, delay of visual feedback, and observer interactivity on the subjective sense of presence

    Robert B. Welch;Theodore T. Blackmon;Andrew Liu;Barbara A. Mellers

  • Bayesian inference: Combining base rates with opinions of sources who vary in credibility.

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Barbara A. Mellers

  • The role of actively open-minded thinking in information acquisition, accuracy, and calibration

    Uriel Haran;Ilana Ritov;Barbara A. Mellers

  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

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  • Judgments of Social Justice: Compromises Between Equality and Efficiency

    Gregory Mitchell;Philip E. Tetlock;Barbara A. Mellers;Lisa D. Ordóñez

  • Identifying and Cultivating Superforecasters as a Method of Improving Probabilistic Predictions

    Barbara Mellers;Eric Stone;Terry Murray;Angela Minster

  • The psychology of intelligence analysis: drivers of prediction accuracy in world politics.

    Barbara Mellers;Eric Stone;Pavel Atanasov;Nick Rohrbaugh

  • American attitudes toward nudges

    Janice Y. Jung;Barbara A. Mellers

  • Psychological perspectives on justice : theory and applications

    Barbara A. Mellers;Jonathan Baron

  • Similarity and Choice.

    Barbara A. Mellers;Karen Biagini

  • Utility Measurement: Configural-Weight Theory and the Judge's Point of View

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Gregory Coffey;Barbara A. Mellers;Robin Weiss

  • Judgment and decision making

    B. A. Mellers;Alan J. Schwartz;A. D J Cooke

  • Rational choice in an uncertain world: Robyn M. Dawes San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp. xi + 346, $10.00 (paper)

    Barbara Mellers

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
A. Peter McGraw
A. Peter McGraw University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan Baron
Jonathan Baron University of Pennsylvania
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
James Jaccard
James Jaccard New York University
Hal R. Arkes
Hal R. Arkes The Ohio State University
Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton Texas A&M University
Jeff T. Larsen
Jeff T. Larsen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University

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