Adam Goodie, Ph.D.

  • Undergraduate Coordinator
  • Associate Professor
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program
  • Director, Georgia Decision Lab
  • Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997

Dr. Goodie's vita

Research Interests

Summer, 2005 article on Dr. Goodie's research

Fall, 2004 article on Dr. Goodie's research

Dr. Goodie directs the Georgia Decision Lab, which is dedicated to the multidisciplinary area of judgment and decision making. Research conducted in the lab encompasses behavioral, neuroscientific and quantitative modeling methods, and approaches problems that are both basic and translational, bridging the gap between basic and applied science.

The primary areas of current research interest are:

  1. The role of control in basic decision making
  2. The role of control in the origin, maintenance, prevention, and treatment of problem and pathological gambling
  3. Decision neuroscience
  4. Personality effects and individual differences in decision making
  5. Bayesian reasoning and base rate neglect under direct experience

Selected Publications

Goodie, A.S., Doshi, P., & Young, D.L.* (in press). Levels of theory-of-mind reasoning in competitive games. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Fortune, E.E.*, & Goodie, A.S. (in press). Cognitive distortions as a component and treatment focus of pathological gambling: A review. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Young, D.L.*, Goodie, A.S., & Hall, D.B. (2011). Modeling the impact of control on the attractiveness of risk in a prospect theory framework. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 47-70.

Goodie, A.S., & Young, D.L.* (2007). The skill element in decision making under uncertainty: Control or competence?. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 189-203.

Camchong, J.*, Goodie, A.S., McDowell, J.E., Gilmore, C.S.*, & Clementz, B.A. (2007). A cognitive neuroscience approach to the role of overconfidence in pathological gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 23, 185-199.

Lakey, C.E.*, Campbell, W.K., Brown, K.W., & Goodie, A.S. (2007). Dispositional mindfulness as a predictor of the severity of gambling outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1698-1710.

Goodie, A.S. (2005). The role of perceived control and overconfidence in pathological gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 21, 481-502.

Goodie, A.S. (2003). The effects of control on betting: Paradoxical betting on items of high confidence with low value. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 598-610.

Goodie, A.S., & Fantino, E. (2000). Representing the task in Bayesian reasoning: Comment on Lovett and Schunn (1999). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 449-452.

Goodie, A.S., Ortmann, A., Davis, J.N., Bullock, S., & Werner, G.M. (1999). Demons versus heuristics in artificial intelligence, behavioral ecology and economics. In G. Gigerenzer, P.M. Todd, & the ABC Research Group, Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 327-355). New York: Oxford University Press.

Goodie, A.S., & Fantino, E. (1996). Learning to commit or avoid the base-rate error. Nature, 380, 247-249.

Goodie, A.S., & Fantino, E. (1995). An experientially derived base-rate error in humans. Psychological Science, 6, 101-106.

* indicates student author

Courses Regularaly Taught

Undergraduate

  • Psyc 5100: Judgement and Decision Making
  • Psyc 1101 and 1030H: Introductory Psychology
  • Psyc 4110: Learning

Graduate

  • Psyc 8240: Judgement and Decision Making