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D-Index
69
Citations
33393
World Ranking
286
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his half century of advances in economics, psychology, and sociology based on mathematical modeling of behavior.", Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on March 14, 2005.
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1970 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1958 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1935 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

R. Duncan Luce was affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their academic career included recognition by various prestigious organizations reflecting significant contributions across multiple disciplines involving mathematical modeling of behavior.

Throughout their career, Luce received several notable awards. In 2003, they were awarded the US President's National Medal of Science "for his half century of advances in economics, psychology, and sociology based on mathematical modeling of behavior," presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on March 14, 2005. Additional honors included the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 1989, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980, and a fellowship from the American Psychological Association in 1975.

Luce was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1972 and received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1970. Earlier in their career, Luce was recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science twice, once in 1958 and again as early as 1935.

Their research spanned across economics, psychology, and sociology, with a particular focus on mathematical modeling of behavior. This interdisciplinary approach bridged the conceptual and methodological frameworks between these fields.

Best Publications

  • Individual Choice Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis

    Violet Cane;R. Duncan Luce

  • Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Contributions to the theory of games

    H. W. Kuhn;Albert W. Tucker;Melvin Dresher;Philip Wolfe

  • Simultaneous conjoint measurement: A new type of fundamental measurement

    R.Duncan Luce;John W. Tukey;John W. Tukey

  • Handbook of mathematical psychology: I.

    R. Duncan Luce;Robert R. Bush;Eugene Galanter

  • Individual Choice Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Semiorders and a Theory of Utility Discrimination

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Contemporary Developments in Mathematical Psychology

    Michael S. Humphreys;David H. Krantz;Richard Atkinson;R. Duncan Luce

  • The Choice Axiom after Twenty Years

    R.Duncan Luce

  • On the possible psychophysical laws.

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Utility of Gains and Losses: Measurement-Theoretical and Experimental Approaches

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Connectivity and generalized cliques in sociometric group structure

    R. Duncan Luce

  • Rank- and Sign-Dependent Linear Utility Models for Finite First-Order Gambles

    R. Duncan Luce;Peter C. Fishburn

  • A threshold theory for simple detection experiments.

    R. Duncan Luce

  • The effect on the preference-reversal phenomenon of using choice indifferences

    Raphael Bostic;R.J. Herrnstein;R.Duncan Luce

  • Foundations of Measurement, Vol. III: Representation, Axiomatization, and Invariance

    R. Duncan Luce;David H. Krantz;Patrick Suppes;Amos Tversky

  • Sequential effects in judgments of loudness

    Walt Jesteadt;R. Duncan Luce;David M. Green

  • Classification of concatenation measurement structures according to scale type

    R.Duncan Luce;Louis Narens

  • Operant matching is not a logical consequence of maximizing reinforcement rate

    Gene M. Heyman;R. Duncan Luce

  • Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey

    S. Vajda;R. Duncan Luce;Howard Raiffa

  • Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.

    Irwin Mann;R. Duncan Luce;Howard Raiffa

  • Foundations of Measurement:@@@Volume II: Geometrical, Threshold, and Probabilistic Representations@@@Volume III: Representation, Axiomatization, and Invariance.

    Peter C. Fishburn;Patrick Suppes;David H. Krantz;R. Duncan Luce

  • Handbook of Mathematical Psychology@@@Readings in Mathematical Psychology

    Robert McGinnis;R. Duncan Luce;Robert R. Bush;Eugene Galanter

  • Foundations of Measurement, Vol. I: Additive and Polynomial Representations@@@Foundations of Measurement, Vol. II: Geometrical, Threshold, and Probabilistic Representations@@@Foundations of Measurement, Vol. III: Representation, Axiomization, and Invariance

    Dawn Iacobucci;David H. Krantz;R. Duncan Luce;Patrick Suppes

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes Stanford University
David M. Green
David M. Green University of Florida
Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky Stanford University
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
Peter C. Fishburn
Peter C. Fishburn AT&T (United States)
Detlof von Winterfeldt
Detlof von Winterfeldt University of Southern California
Robert M. Nosofsky
Robert M. Nosofsky Indiana University
John W. Tukey
John W. Tukey Princeton University
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland
Earl Hunt
Earl Hunt University of Washington

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