Hosted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi on 5th and 6th October 2024. Convenor: Dr. Varun Dutt.
IIT Mandi is located at the picturesque foothills of the Himalayas in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, easily connected by roads, rails and flights.
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Summary: A two-day academic meetup of researchers working on diverse aspects of judgment and decision-making spanning different disciplines and approaches. It is the only academic conference on decision making in the global south. This year, a key goal is to work towards establishing a formal judgment and decision-making society in India.
Venue: A18-1, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi
Schedule
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner will be arranged at Oak Mess from 4th October Dinner to 7th October Breakfast. Location | Food Menu
Day 0: 4th October 2024 (Friday)
20:00 – 21:00 | Dinner at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
Day 1: 5th October 2024 (Saturday)
8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
9:30 – 10:30 | Inaugural Session
Welcome by Varun Dutt, Arjun Ramakrishnan, Sumitava Mukherjee
Chief Guest: Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Director, IIT Mandi
Spl. Invitee: Chair, Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications Centre, IIT Mandi
10:30-10:45 | Tea/Coffee break outside A18-1 classroom
10:45 – 11:15 | Convenor talk
Dissecting the function of cognitive biases in AI-generated phishing emails
Varun Dutt, IIT Mandi
11:15 – 11:45 | Invited Talk
Neuroengineering for mental health: Understanding the mechanisms underlying suboptimal decision making in anxious individuals
Arjun Ramakrishnan, IIT Kanpur
11:45 – 13:15 | Session 1 (15 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
Value-based decisions and choice
Chair: Krishna Prasad Miyapuram (IIT Gandhinagar)
- From Descriptions to Experiences: Using IBLT to Model Gambling Decision-Making
Gitanshu Choudhary (IIT Mandi), Anamika Banerjee (IIT Bombay), Shashank Uttrani (IIT Mandi), Varun Dutt (IIT Mandi)
- Loss Aversion: Insights from Diverse Estimation Approaches
Akhil Abburu (IIT Delhi), Sumeet Agarwal (IIT Delhi), Sumitava Mukherjee (IIT Delhi)
- Influence of Structure and Trait-Anxiety on Patch Foraging Behaviour
Shruti Vatsa (IIT Kanpur), Arjun Ramakrishnan (IIT Kanpur)
- Investigating Individual Differences in Choice Blindness through Impulsivity and Ambiguity Tolerance
Ayesha Ayoob (CHRIST), Takhe Dipa (CHRIST), Koteshwar Ramesh Rakesh (CHRIST)
13:15 – 14:05 | Lunch at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
14:15 – 15:45 | Session 2 (15 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
Applied behavioral and decision Insights
Chair: Sunitava Mukherjee (IIT Delhi)
- Barriers to Digital Payment Adoption among Rural Women: Judgment, Decision-Making, and Risk Perception
Surbhi Raina (IIT Jammu), Amitash Ojha (IIT Jammu)
- Place Your Veggies Before Your Curries: The Effect of Food Accessibility on Consumption
Preet Joshi (FLAME University), Shruti Goyal (FLAME University)
- Personality Correlates of False Information Beliefs: A Crucial Factor for Decision-Making in Effective Science Communication?
Apeksha Srivastava (IIT Gandhinagar), Frederick L. Coolidge (University of Colorado)
- Grit as Predictor of Nomophobia among Young Adults: Decision-making Style as a Moderator
Kriti Kalia (CHRIST), Santhosh K.R. (CHRIST)
15:50 – 16:40 | Poster session 1 [Along with tea/coffee outside A18-1 classroom])
Chair: Ritu Kapur (IIT Mandi)
- Using Conflict to Modulate Pavlovian Bias in Decision Making
Priyanshu (IIT Kanpur), Arjun Ramakrishnan (IIT Kanpur)
- The Role of Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Moral Injury on Moral Disengagement and Risk-Taking Behaviour among Adolescents
Rahan Ajit (CHRIST), Shreenath T.R (CHRIST), Ammu Elizabeth Alexander (CHRIST)
- A better praise or a bigger raise? Exploring the contrast between delay discounting of real monetary and social rewards
Harshil Vyas (IIT Gandhinagar), Alan Sanfey (Donders Insitute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior), Bernd Figner (Donders Insitute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior)
- Influence of prior gains and losses on risky decision-making using the Iowa Gambling Task
Vaishnavi Kodakandla (IIIT Hyderabad), Bhaktee Dongaonkar (IIIT Hyderabad)
- Decision Making: A Qualitative Perspective From Olympic Medalists
Sampada Bassi (CHRIST), Neeraj Panwar (CHRIST)
- Loom of Leprosy: Exploring the Psychological and Social Constructs in Urban and Rural Odisha
Vaishnabi Paty (CHRIST), Divya Sundaram (CHRIST), Sreelatha Narayanan (CHRIST)
16:45 – 17:45 | Keynote Address 1 (45 min talk + 10 min Q+A)
Dynamic Decision Making: Past, Present, and Future Prof. Cleotilde Gonzalez (Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Introduction: Varun Dutt (IIT Mandi)
(Note: This talk will be held from 7:00–8:00 AM EST, i.e., 4:30–5:30 PM IST on 5th October)
17:50 – 18:30 | Open House Discussion (all are expected and welcome)
JDM in India: Taught courses, Research topics, Collaboration opportunities, and what kind of insights into judgment and decision-making studies are relevant for the area and for India.
18:45-19:45 | Open Networking time
19:45 – 21:00 | Dinner at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
Day 2: 6th October 2024 (Sunday)
8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
9:30 – 10:30 | Plenary Talk (45 min talk + 10 min Q+A)
The ticking clock: Unravelling time perception and decision making in the human mind
Prof Bapi Raju (Cognitive Science Lab, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, India)
Introduction: Krishna Miyapuram, IIT Gandhinagar
10:30 – 11:30 | Roundtable
From basic knowledge to applied insights in decision making
11:30 – 11:45 | Tea/Coffee break outside A18-1 classroom
11:45 – 12:45 | Keynote Address 2 (45 min talk + 10 min Q+A)
The description-experience gap, and the impact of nudges and fake news
Prof. Ido Erev (Data and Decision Sciences, Technion Israel Institute of Technology)
Introduction: Varun Dutt (IIT Mandi)
12:45 – 13:15 | Invited Talk
Title: What mind-wandering has to say about decision Impairments in depression
Prof. Marieke Van Vugt, University of Groningen
Introduction: Sumitava Mukherjee (IIT Delhi)
13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
14:15: – 14:45
A Spillover Effect of your Altruistic Cheating: When Benefitting Others Goes Wrong
Shayar Ayal (Reichman University), Anat Halevy (Reichman University), Rachel Barkan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Guy Hochman (Reichman University)
14:50 – 15:30 | Session 3 (15 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
Altruism and Moral Decisions
Chair: Arjun Ramakrishnan (IIT Kanpur)
- Neural Asymmetry in Aligning with Generous versus Selfish Descriptive Norms in a Charitable Donation Task
Paloma Díaz-Gutiérrez (University of Antwerp), Christophe Boone (University of Antwerp), Harshil Vyas (IIT Gandhinagar), Carolyn H. Declerck (University of Antwerp
- The Psychological Costs of Utilitarian Decisions: A Study Assessing the Impact of Moral Decision-making on Psychological Well-being
Saumya Rastogi (IIT Dhanbad)
15:30 – 16:20 | Poster Session 2 [Along with tea/coffee outside A18-1 classroom]
Chair: Ritu Kapur (IIT Mandi)
- Detecting AI-Generated Content: A Pilot Study on the Influence of Copywriting Expertise
Koteshwar Ramesh Rakesh (CHRIST), Neeraj Panwar (CHRIST)
- Empathy as a Negotiation Tactic: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Amey Kunte (IIT Hyderabad), Kavita Vemuri (IIT Hyderabad)
- Triguna Personality and Decision-Making as Predictors of Attitude towards Sustainable Development Goals
Sunaina Majumder (CHRIST), Neeraj Panwar (CHRIST)
- Feel, React, Buy: The Role of Multi-sensory Cues and Mirror Neurons on Consumer Behaviour
Stutee Narang (National Forensic Sciences University)
- Environmental Concerns and Peer Influence in Relation to Green Purchase Behaviour
Tanvi Chopra, Rajsi Sharma, Neeraj Panwar (CHRIST)
16:30 – 17:30 | General body meeting (all attendees and presenters are expected to attend)
- Feedback and steps ahead, (b) Plan for next year’s meeting and venue. (c) Discuss establishing a judgment and decision-making society in India and its key pillars, activities, agenda.
17:30-18:00 | Closing Session and Final Remarks
(Spl. Invitee: Chair, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi)
19:45 – 21:00 | Dinner at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
Day 3: 7th October 2024 (Monday)
8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast at Oak Mess, North Campus, IIT Mandi
Keynote Speakers
Cleotilde Gonzalez
Keynote Speaker (online)
Research Professor of Decision Sciences, the Founding Director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory and the Research Co-Director the newly founded NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making at Carnegie Mellon University.
Prof. Gonzales focuses on the study of human decision making in dynamic and complex environments. She is a lifetime fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is also a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society. She is a Senior Editor for Topics in Cognitive Science, a Consulting Editor for Decision, and Associate Editor for the System Dynamics Review. She is also a member of editorial boards in multiple other journals, including Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and others.
Coty has been Principal or Co-Investigator on a wide range of multi-million and multi-year collaborative efforts with government and industry, including current efforts on Collaborative Research Alliances; Multi-University Research Initiative grants from the Army Research Laboratories and Army Research Office; large collaborative projects with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
Ido Erev
Keynote Speaker (online)
Professor of Behavioral Science, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology.
Prof. Ido Erev (https://www.idoerev.com/) is a chair professor of Data and Decision Science at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Starting August 2025, he will serve as a professor of Psychology and Economics at Ohio State University. He served as vice dean in charge of the MBA program, and the president of the European Association for Decision Making. His research clarifies the conditions under which wise incentive systems can solve behavioral and social problems. Among the contributions of this research is the discovery of a robust description-experience-gap: People exhibit oversensitivity to rare events when they decide based on a description of the incentive structure, but experience reverses this bias and leads to underweighting of rare events.
Bapi Raju
Plenary Speaker (online)
Professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad
Prof. Bapi Raju is a distinguished professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad. His research interests primarily focus on cognitive neuroscience, cognitive modeling, and artificial intelligence. Prof. Bapi Raju has made significant contributions in the areas of motor learning, cognitive control, and decision-making, using interdisciplinary approaches that combine experimental research with computational modeling. At IIIT Hyderabad, he leads initiatives in cognitive science and serves as a guiding force for fostering interdisciplinary research in neuroscience, psychology, and computational sciences.
Invited Talks
Tentative areas include but are not limited to:
- Broad questions about rationality, cognition, and decision theory
- Philosophical and formal/mathematical treatments of choice models
- Psychological models and empirical findings about judgment and decision making
- Decision Neuroscience
- Computational modeling of decision processes
- Artificial intelligent models, expert systems or AI-assisted or augmented decision making
- Anthropological approaches to judgments and decisions among subgroups and cultures
- Behavioral economics, Neuroeconomics, Neuromarketing, Behavioral finance, Marketing, Human resource, Organizational decision-making processes.
- Social Judgments, Biases, Preferences, Moral Choices, Justice, Resource allocation
- Ecological decision making, On-field decisions
- Applications of decision research to products, services, organizations, and sustainable development goals, Decision Nudges and boosts
- Animal and ecological studies related to choice behavior
Submissions
For presenters:
Researchers (students, faculty, working professionals) across multiple institutions are encouraged to submit an abstract of about 500 words. The abstract should include an introduction, method, analysis, and discussion for empirical or computational papers and can be tailored otherwise as per other submissions like theoretical or mathematical analysis. The abstract may make it to the web proceedings on the conference page. Accepted submissions will further be considered for either an oral or poster presentation.
We are considering publishing select submissions as an edited book by a leading publishing house. On the submission form, please SELECT the option accordingly about your type of abstract – Those who want to be considered for publication as a book chapter must select “Towards a book chapter” and others should choose “Conference only”.
Attend to know about JDM
For attendees:
Anyone can attend (but not make presentations) to explore research on decision making. A short paragraph of about 100 words explaining why one wants to participate in the event is required. This will help the committee select applicants. Please send an email with the subject line “Attend 2024 JDM India”. Kindly note that attendees would need to pay the full registration fee as applicants. A place to attend is not guaranteed and is subject to accommodation availability on campus. Not accepting any more requests.
Important dates
- The last date for submission/application:
10 Sep midnight IST11 Sep 22:00 hours IST. - Rolling decisions, by around : 15 Sep
- Confirmation of attendance from participants is sought by 25 Sep
Registration
UG/PG Students = INR 3000 (50 USD)
PhD Students = INR 4000 (60 USD)
Faculty/Postdoc/Professionals = INR 5000 (75 USD)
Registration includes access to all sessions and lunch, including any social gatherings.
On-campus accommodation near the venue can be arranged on an additional payment basis.
Team
Organizing Committee
IIT Mandi
IIT Kanpur
IIT Delhi
Scientific Programme Committee:
- Varun Dutt, IIT Mandi
- Arjun Ramakrishnan, IIT Kanpur
- Sumitava Mukherjee, IIT Delhi
- Krishna Prasad Miyapuram, IIT Gandhinagar
- Nisheeth Srivastava, IIT Kanpur
- Bapi Raju, IIIT Hyderabad
- Arvind Sahay, MDI Gurgaon
- Kavitha Ranganathan, TAPMI Manipal
Advisory Role:
Jonathan Baron, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Volunteers:
- Dr. Ritu, IIT Mandi
- Akansha Chandan, IIT Mandi
- Vaidya Yashwant Kumar, IIT Mandi
- Sahil Sankhyan, IIT Mandi
- Akash Singh, IIT Mandi
- Ankit Singh, IIT Mandi
- Prem Chand, IIT Mandi
- Tushar, IIT Mandi
- Ritik Sharma, IIT Mandi
- Sakshi Chauhan, IIT Mandi
- Malika Nagpal, IIT Mandi
- Ankita Garg, IIT Mandi
- Priyankari, IIT Mandi
- Shaktija Mishra, IIT Mandi
- Shivani Sharma, IIT Mandi
- Priya Sharma, IIT Mandi
- Gitanshu, IIT Mandi
- Akhil Abburu, IIT Delhi
- Avantika Dev, IIT Delhi
- Rishav Singh, IIT Delhi
- Mehak Gupta, IIT Delhi
Contact
Recommended Email: jdmconference2024@gmail.com
Or the Convenor. Dr. Varun Dutt at varun@iitmandi.ac.in
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