User:Alexander L. Davis

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Alexander L. Davis

• Alexander L. Davis
• Carnegie Mellon University
• 5000 Forbes Avenue
• Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
• Email me through OpenWetWare

I work in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. I learned about OpenWetWare from Wikipedia and John Miller.

Education

• 2012, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Behavioral Decision Research
• 2009, MS, Carnegie Mellon University, Behavioral Decision Research
• 2007, BS, Northern Arizona University, Psychology

Research Interests and Lab Notebooks

• Notebook Template

Psychology of Methodology

What are the important psychological aspects of designing, implementing, interpreting, and reporting experimental research?

• Error Models and Data Sharing in Hindsight

• The Psychology Of Empirical Data Sharing: Coherence, Correspondence And Performance

Human Altruism

How do humans behave when they can prevent harm to others by incurring it on themselves?

• Breaking Bads

Human Behavior and Electricity Consumption

What are the cognitive and motivational factors involved in understanding one's electricity consumption?

• Setting a Standard for Pilot Studies
• In-Home Displays
• Nudgers and Nudgees
• CMU Energy and Behavior Group

Methodology of Psychology

How can prescriptive approaches to scientific research help our cognitive and social limitations?

Human and Artificial Intelligence

How can human performance be elucidated by comparing it to modern artificial intelligence methods. For examaple, how does human knowledge representation compare to an ontology? Applications include drug discovery.

Courses

Research101

My take on everything you need to know to complete an experimental research project.

Adaptive Pretesting

Adaptive design for pretesting: How can we use adaptive design to develop very strong experiments efficiently? We may want to test our auxiliary assumptions 'online' until they converge into a reasonable risk level.

Stats for Social Sciences

Rest assured there will be no p-values.

Advanced Stats

Rest assured there will be no p-values. Cosma's Class; Bayesian Data Analysis; Gelman and Hill;

Intro to Cognitive Psychology

Human thinking, reasoning, perception, etc.

Intro to Social Psychology

Motivation, social cognition, etc.

Intro to Experimental Economics

Real human behavior in microeconomics and game theory. Kagel and Roth: Handbook of Expeirmental Economics; Plott and Smith: Handbook of experiment economics results

Computer Science for Social Sciences

Python, Octave, R; Stats; Complexity Theory; Sipser: Introduction to the theory of computation

Decision Theory

Raiffa; Levi? Seidenfeld; Savage; Ramsey;

Behavioral Decision Research

Normative, Descriptive, Prescriptive; Poulton; K&T; von Winterfeldt and Edwards; Raiffa and Tversky: Decision-Making; Gigerenzer: Adaptive Thinking

Game Theory

Von Neumann and Morgenstern

Behavioral Game Theory

Camerer: Behavioral Game Theory; Builds on Decision Theory with empirical evidence. Prereqs: Decision theory; stats

Computational Cognitive Science

Covers three of the most successful computational models: ACT-R; Church; Connectionist; Anderson: How can the mind exist?

Psychology of Science

Herb Simon; Gorman; Klahr; Wason; Klayman and Ha;

Philosophy of Science

Peirce; Carnap; Wittgenstein; Quine; Duhem; Lakatos; Kuhn; Popper; Van Bovens and Hartmann; Mayo; Suppes;

Publications

1. Preparing for smart grid technologies: A behavioral decision research approach to understanding consumer expectations about smart meters

   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421511009244

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