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Overview

Hal R. Arkes is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary areas, notably integrating aspects of sociology, political science, statistics, probability, uncertainty, computer vision, pattern recognition, economics, econometrics, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed to several fields of study, with main topics of research including digital media forensic detection, forensic and genetic research, social and intergroup psychology, advanced statistical process monitoring, risk perception and management, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, as well as healthcare policy and management.

Notable recent publications by Hal R. Arkes include:

  • Inconclusives and error rates in forensic science: a signal detection theory approach, 2021, Law Probability and Risk
  • Analysis of Physicians' Probability Estimates of a Medical Outcome Based on a Sequence of Events, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Inconclusives are not errors: a rejoinder to Dror, 2022, Law Probability and Risk
  • Inconclusive conclusions in forensic science: rejoinders to Scurich, Morrison, Sinha and Gutierrez, 2022, Law Probability and Risk

Their frequent co-authors include Jonathan J. Koehler, Scott K. Aberegg, Kevin A. Arpin, Andria H. Mehltretter, and Meghan Prusinowski.

The most common venues for publication are:

  • Law Probability and Risk
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Forensic Chemistry
  • Medical Decision Making
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Sunk Cost

    Hal R Arkes;Catherine Blumer

  • Costs and benefits of judgment errors: Implications for debiasing.

    Hal R. Arkes

  • The sunk cost and Concorde effects: Are humans less rational than lower animals?

    Hal R. Arkes;Peter Ayton

  • Attributions of Implicit Prejudice, or "Would Jesse Jackson 'Fail' the Implicit Association Test?"

    Hal R. Arkes;Philip E. Tetlock

  • Impediments to accurate clinical judgment and possible ways to minimize their impact.

    Hal R. Arkes

  • The Psychology of Windfall Gains

    Hal R. Arkes;Cynthia A. Joyner;Mark V. Pezzo;Jane Gradwohl Nash

  • Eliminating the hindsight bias.

    Hal R. Arkes;David Faust;Thomas J. Guilmette;Kathleen Hart

  • Factors influencing the use of a decision rule in a probabilistic task

    Hal R Arkes;Robyn M Dawes;Caryn Christensen

  • The Role of Potential Loss in the Influence of Affect on Risk-Taking Behavior

    Hal R Arkes;Lisa Tandy Herren;Alice M Isen

  • Hindsight bias among physicians weighing the likelihood of diagnoses.

    Hal R. Arkes;Robert L. Wortmann;Paul D. Saville;Allan R. Harkness

  • Two methods of reducing overconfidence

    Hal R Arkes;Caryn Christensen;Cheryl Lai;Catherine Blumer

  • Neuropsychologists' capacity to detect adolescent malingerers.

    David Faust;Kathleen J. Hart;Thomas J. Guilmette;Hal R. Arkes

  • Determinants of judged validity.

    Hal R Arkes;Lawrence E Boehm;Gang Xu

  • The psychology of waste.

    Hal R. Arkes

  • The generality of the relation between familiarity and judged validity.

    Hal R. Arkes;Catherine Hackett;Larry Boehm

  • Reference Point Adaptation: Tests in the Domain of Security Trading

    Hal R. Arkes;David Hirshleifer;Danling Jiang;Sonya Lim

  • Estimates of contingency between two dichotomous variables.

    Hal R. Arkes;Allan R. Harkness

  • Systematic errors in medical decision making: - Judgment limitations

    Neal V. Dawson;Hal R. Arkes

  • Psychological theories of motivation

    Hal R. Arkes;John P. Garske

  • Overconfidence in Judgmental Forecasting

    Hal R. Arkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
David Faust
David Faust University of Rhode Island
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania

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