Reid Hastie studies judgment and decision making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and personal), memory and cognition, and social psychology. He is best known for his research on legal decisionmarking and on social memory and judgment processes. Hastie is currently studying the psychology of investment decisions, the role of explanations in category concept representations, civil jury decision-making, and decision making competencies across the adult lifespan.
Hastie has written a textbook, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, in collaboration with Robyn Dawes of Carnegie Mellon University, and an Annual Review of Psychology chapter, "Problems for Judgment and Decision Making." He is involved with the Center for Decision Research at Chicago Booth.
He has taught at Harvard University, Northwestern University, and the University of Colorado where he was director of the Center for Research and Judgment Policy.
Hastie has served on review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Research Council, and on 16 professional journal editorial boards. His research has been funded continuously by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health since 1975. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals, including the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Hastie earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Stanford University in 1968, a master's degree in psychology from the University of California at San Diego in 1970, and a PhD in psychology from Yale University in 1973. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2001.
Selected Publications
With N. Pennington, "Explanation-based decision making," in T. Connolly, H. R. Arkes, and K. R. Hammond, eds., Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
"Problems for judgment and decision making," Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 52 (2001).
With R.M. Dawes, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making (California: Sage Publishers, 2001).
With T. Kameda, "The robust beauty of majority rules," Psychological Review (2005).
With A.G. Sanfey, "The neuroscience of decision making," in E.E. Smith and S.M. Kosslyn, eds., Cognition: Mind and Brain (New York: Prentice Hall, 2006).
