30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 19-22, 2008): Concurrent Session Abstracts D: Joint Session with Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Tuesday, October 21, 2008: 11:30 AM

Grand Ballroom AB (Hyatt Regency Penns Landing)

Session Chair:

Valerie Reyna, PhD

11:30 AM

A NOVEL ACCOUNT OF DEPENDENCIES IN HEALTH UTILITY ASSESSMENT
Joseph Johnson, Miami Unviersity, Oxford, OH and A. A. J. Marley, McGill University

11:45 AM

D-2

APPLYING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TO A WEIGHT LOSS INTERVENTION
Kevin Volpp¹, Leslie John², Andrea B. Troxel, Laurie Norton¹, Jennifer Fassbender³ and George Loewenstein, PhD², (1)Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, (3)University of Pennsylvania

12:00 PM

D-3

SPURIOUS CONSENSUS AND OPINION REVISION: WHY MIGHT PEOPLE BE MORE CONFIDENT IN THEIR LESS ACCURATE JUDGMENTS?
Ilan Yaniv¹, Shoham Choshen-Hillel² and Maxim Milyavsky², (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem

12:15 PM

D-4

Presentation by Discussant Valerie Reyna

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