Jonathan Baron

Jonathan Baron

Jonathan Baron is a Professor of Psychology [http://psych.upenn.edu/index.php] at the University of Pennsylvania in the science of decision-making.

Biography

Jonathan Baron was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1944, and received a B.A. from Harvard in 1966 and a Ph.D. from Michigan in 1970, both in psychology. He married Judith Baron in 1967, and has one son, David, born in 1980.

Baron is the founding editor of the journal "Judgment and Decision Making" [http://journal.sjdm.org/] and has been on the editorial boards of several other journals.He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Psychological Science, and was the President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making for 2006-2007 [http://www.sjdm.org/sjdm-history.shtml#officers] .

Notable contributions

Baron's work has occurred primarily within the field of judgment and decision making, a multi-disciplinary area that applies psychology to problems in economics, law, business, and public policy. This field began by contrasting human decision behavior to theories of individual decision making and judgment such as probability theory and expected utility. Baron's research has extended the focus of judgment and decision making to social problems of resource allocation and ethical decisions. Among the concepts associated with his work are omission bias (the tendency for people to excuse acts of omission more easily than acts of commission) and protected values (principles on which people are unwilling to accept tradeoffs).

Baron is author of "Thinking and Deciding" [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521659728] , a text that takes on the task of examining psychological research directed at a comprehension of the nature of thinking as he sees it. In this text, Baron covers such topics as risk, bioethics, Bayes' Theorem, utility measurement, decision analysis, and values. The text takes a broad-based, introductory-level view to the field of psychological decision theory, and has seen use as a textbook, both for Baron's own introductory course [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/p153.htm] and for courses in decision theory at other universities [http://www.unc.edu/courses/2007fall/psyc/433/001/syllabus.html] .

He has also authored "Morality and Rational Choice" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792322762] , "Against Bioethics" [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10843] , and "Judgment Misguided" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195111087] . Additionally, he is the editor of "Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents" and "Psychological Perspectives on Justice" (with Barbara Mellers).

Baron's Ph.D. students have included Jane Beattie and Jonathan Haidt.

External links

* [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/ Website]


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