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Python, Octave, R; Stats; Complexity Theory; Sipser: Introduction to the theory of computation | Python, Octave, R; Stats; Complexity Theory; Sipser: Introduction to the theory of computation | ||
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Raiffa; Levi? Seidenfeld; Savage; Ramsey; Berger: Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis; Gilboa: Theory of decision under uncertainty; Pratt and Raiffa: Statistical Decision Theory | Raiffa; Levi? Seidenfeld; Savage; Ramsey; Berger: Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis; Gilboa: Theory of decision under uncertainty; Pratt and Raiffa: Statistical Decision Theory; Kadane (2011; pg. 1-4) has a nice demonstration of how to be a dutch bookie. | ||
===Behavioral Decision Research=== | ===Behavioral Decision Research=== | ||
Normative, Descriptive, Prescriptive; Poulton; K&T; von Winterfeldt and Edwards; Raiffa and Tversky: Decision-Making; Gigerenzer: Adaptive Thinking | Normative, Descriptive, Prescriptive; Poulton; K&T; von Winterfeldt and Edwards; Raiffa and Tversky: Decision-Making; Gigerenzer: Adaptive Thinking |
Revision as of 11:08, 30 April 2012
Contact Info
- 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
Psychology of Methodology
What are the important psychological aspects of designing, implementing, interpreting, and reporting experimental research?
Human Altruism
How do humans behave when they can prevent harm to others by incurring it on themselves?
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. Cohen et al, applied regression
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; Berger: Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis; Gilboa: Theory of decision under uncertainty; Pratt and Raiffa: Statistical Decision Theory; Kadane (2011; pg. 1-4) has a nice demonstration of how to be a dutch bookie.
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; Luce and Raiffa: Games and Decisions
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;Carruthers, Stich and Siegal: The cognitive basis of science
Philosophy of Science
Peirce; Carnap; Wittgenstein; Quine; Duhem; Lakatos; Kuhn; Popper; Van Bovens and Hartmann; Mayo; Suppes;
Machine Learning
MacKay: information theory, inference and learning algorithms; Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman: The elements of statistical learning; Bishop: Pattern recognition and Machine Learning
Publications
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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