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44
Citations
8093
World Ranking
4148
National Ranking
1976

Overview

Lee Roy Beach is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, focusing on narrative theory, cognition, and complex decision-making. The subfields of their work include Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their scholarly contributions concentrate on several main topics, including:

  • Narrative Theory and Analysis
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Critical Realism in Sociology
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Lee Roy Beach has published in a range of academic venues, with multiple contributions to Futures & Foresight Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Theory & Psychology.

Recent papers include:

  • Scenarios as narratives (2020) in Futures & Foresight Science
  • Scenarios as narrative past and future: A commentary on Schoemaker 2020 (2020) in Futures & Foresight Science
  • Conviction Narrative Theory and the Theory of Narrative Thought (2023) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory (2024) in Theory & Psychology

Collaborations in their research include working with James A. Wise.

Best Publications

  • A Contingency Model for the Selection of Decision Strategies

    Lee Roy Beach;Terence R. Mitchell

  • The psychology of decision making : people in organizations

    Lee Roy Beach;Terry Connolly

  • Image theory: Principles, goals, and plans in decision making

    Lee Roy Beach;Terence R. Mitchell

  • The contingency model for the selection of decision strategies: An empirical test of the effects of significance, accountability, and reversibility

    Daniel W. McAllister;Terence R. Mitchell;Lee Roy Beach

  • Broadening the Definition of Decision Making: The Role of Prechoice Screening of Options

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  • The citation bias: Fad and fashion in the judgment and decision literature.

    Jay J. J. Christensen-Szalanski;Lee Roy Beach

  • Experience and the base-rate fallacy.

    Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski;Lee Roy Beach

  • “… Do i love thee? Let me count …” toward an understanding of intuitive and automatic decision making

    Terence R Mitchell;Lee Roy Beach

  • Image theory: Theoretical and empirical foundations.

    Lee Roy Beach

  • Why Classical Decision Theory is an Inappropriate Standard for Evaluating and Aiding Most Human Decision Making

    Lee Roy Beach;Raanan Lipshitz

  • A toadstool among the mushrooms: Screening decisions and image theory's compatibility test

    Lee Roy Beach;Eric Strom

  • A cost-benefit mechanism for selecting problem-solving strategies: Some extensions and empirical tests

    James F. Smith;Terence R. Mitchell;Lee Roy Beach

  • Testing the Compatibility Test: How Instructions, Accountability, and Anticipated Regret Affect Prechoice Screening of Options.

    Lisa D Ordóñez;Lehman Benson;Lee Roy Beach

  • The effects of time constraints on the prechoice screening of decision options

    Lehman Benson;Lee Roy Beach

  • Developing and testing a decision model for predicting influenza vaccination compliance.

    W. B. Carter;L. R. Beach;Thomas Inui;J. P. Kirscht

  • Subjective sampling distributions and conservatism

    Gloria Wheeler;Lee Roy Beach

  • On the Decision to be Assertive.

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  • Developing and testing a decision aid for birth planning decisions

    Lee Roy Beach;Brenda D. Townes;Frederick L. Campbell;Gordon W. Keating

  • Do ranks suffice? A comparison of alternative weighting approaches in value elicitation

    Joydeep Srivastava;Terry Connolly;Lee Roy Beach

  • Retirement Decisions: Expectation, Intention, and Action

    Joyce Prothero;Lee Roy Beach

  • Probability magnitudes and conservative revision of subjective probabilities.

    Lee Roy Beach

  • Beyond heuristics and biases: A contingency model of judgemental forecasting

    Lee Roy Beach;Valerie E. Barnes;Jay J. J. Christensen-Szalanski

  • Imperfect Information in Pre-choice Screening of Options

    Richard B. Potter;Lee Roy Beach

  • The Basics of Image Theory

    Lee Roy Beach;Terence R. Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Terence R. Mitchell
Terence R. Mitchell University of Washington
Terry Connolly
Terry Connolly University of Arizona
Earl Hunt
Earl Hunt University of Washington
Lawton R. Burns
Lawton R. Burns University of Pennsylvania

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