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Daniel G. Goldstein is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with a focus on subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research topics span several areas such as:

  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Topic Modeling
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Goldstein has published extensively in notable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Some recent papers that demonstrate the scope of their work are:

  • No reason to expect large and consistent effects of nudge interventions, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reducing opinion polarization: Effects of exposure to similar people with differing political views, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • How good is good enough for COVID19 apps? The influence of benefits, accuracy, and privacy on willingness to adopt, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Simple Rules to Guide Expert Classifications, 2020, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
  • Math Education with Large Language Models: Peril or Promise?, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Goldstein has collaborated frequently with several other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Jake M. Hofman (20 papers)
  • David Rothschild (8 papers)
  • Christopher Hoy (3 papers)
  • Lionel Page (3 papers)
  • Philip J. Grossman (3 papers)

Best Publications

  • Reasoning the fast and frugal way: models of bounded rationality.

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • Do Defaults Save Lives

    Eric J. Johnson;Daniel Goldstein

  • Models of ecological rationality: the recognition heuristic.

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

    Eric J. Johnson;Suzanne B. Shu;Benedict G. C. Dellaert;Craig Fox

  • INCREASING SAVING BEHAVIOR THROUGH AGE-PROGRESSED RENDERINGS OF THE FUTURE SELF.

    Hal E . Hershfield;Daniel G . Goldstein;William F . Sharpe;Jesse Fox

  • Manipulating and Measuring Model Interpretability

    Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh;Daniel G Goldstein;Jake M Hofman;Jennifer Wortman Wortman Vaughan

  • Asymmetric Discounting in Intertemporal Choice A Query-Theory Account

    Elke Weber;Eric Johnson;Kerry Milch;Hannah H. Chang

  • The recognition heuristic: How ignorance makes us smart

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The structure of online diffusion networks

    Sharad Goel;Duncan J. Watts;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • Betting on one good reason : The Take the Best heuristic

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • Partitioning default effects: Why people choose not to choose

    Isaac Dinner;Eric J. Johnson;Daniel G. Goldstein;Kaiya Liu

  • How good are simple heuristics

    Jean Czerlinski;Gerd Gigerenzer;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • Defaults and donation decisions.

    Eric J. Johnson;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • THE SIX MISTAKES EXECUTIVES MAKE IN RISK MANAGEMENT

    Nassim N. Taleb;Daniel G. Goldstein;Mark W. Spitznagel

  • Choice Without Awareness: Ethical and Policy Implications of Defaults

    N. Craig Smith;Daniel G. Goldstein;Eric J. Johnson

  • Nudge Your Customers Toward Better Choices

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Eric J. Johnson;Andreas Herrmann;Mark Heitmann

  • Choosing Outcomes versus Choosing Products: Consumer‐Focused Retirement Investment Advice

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Eric J. Johnson;William F. Sharpe

  • Can ignorance beat the stock market

    Bernhard Borges;Daniel G. Goldstein;Andreas Ortmann;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Fast and frugal forecasting

    Daniel G. Goldstein;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The recognition heuristic: A decade of research

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Daniel G. Goldstein

  • The Construction of Preference: Do Defaults Save Lives?

    Eric J. Johnson;Daniel G. Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Benedict G. C. Dellaert
Benedict G. C. Dellaert Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sharad Goel
Sharad Goel Harvard University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
John W. Payne
John W. Payne Duke University
Ellen Peters
Ellen Peters University of Oregon
Anja S. Göritz
Anja S. Göritz University of Freiburg
Richard P. Larrick
Richard P. Larrick Duke University
Craig R. Fox
Craig R. Fox University of California, Los Angeles
Jörg Rieskamp
Jörg Rieskamp University of Basel

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