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Overview

Michael H. Birnbaum is affiliated with California State University, Fullerton in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Psychology. The subfields they focus on include General Decision Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics of their work cover Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Mental Health via Writing, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods.

Michael H. Birnbaum has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Judgment and Decision Making, Biological Psychiatry, Zeitschrift für Psychologie, Decision, and Psychological Methods.

Recent publications by Birnbaum include:

  • MARTER: Markov True and Error model of drifting parameters, 2020, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Advanced Training in Web-Based Psychology Research, 2021, Zeitschrift für Psychologie
  • Reanalysis of Butler and Pogrebna (2018) using true and error model, 2020, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Contextual effects in salary satisfaction, 2023, Judgment and Decision Making
  • Testing transitivity of preference in individuals., 2022, Decision

Throughout their career, Birnbaum has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including Lucy S.C. Wan, Julien Rouvere, Bonny Quan, Viet Cuong Nguyen, and Munmun De Choudhury.

Best Publications

  • Human research and data collection via the internet.

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Source Credibility in Social Judgment: Bias, Expertise, and the Judge's Point of View

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Steven E. Stegner

  • Psychological experiments on the internet

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • New paradoxes of risky decision making.

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Base Rates in Bayesian Inference: Signal Detection Analysis of the Cab Problem

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • The nonadditivity of personality impressions.

    Michael H. Birnbaum

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

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Barbara A. Mellers

  • The devil rides again: Correlation as an index of fit.

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • How to show that 9 > 221 : Collect judgments in a between-subjects design

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Testing Critical Properties of Decision Making on the Internet

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Testing Descriptive Utility Theories: Violations of Stochastic Dominance and Cumulative Independence

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Juan B. Navarrete

  • Using contextual effects to derive psychophysical scales

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Scale convergence as a criterion for rescaling: Information integration with difference, ratio, and averaging tasks

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Clairice T. Veit

  • Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet

    Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Tests of Theories of Decision Making: Violations of Branch Independence and Distribution Independence☆☆☆

    Michael H Birnbaum;Alfredo Chavez

  • Morality judgments: tests of an averaging model.

    Michael H. Birnbaum

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

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

  • Loci of contextual effects in judgment.

    Barbara A. Mellers;Michael H. Birnbaum

  • Combining information from sources that vary in credibility

    Michael H. Birnbaum;Rebecca Wong;Leighton K. Wong

  • A change-of-process theory for contextual effects and preference reversals in risky decision making

    Barbara A Mellers;Lisa D Ordóñez;Michael H Birnbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Anja S. Göritz
Anja S. Göritz University of Freiburg
Neil Stewart
Neil Stewart University of Warwick

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