REBECCA J. WHITE CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 REBECCA J. WHITE CURRICULUM VITAE University of Chicago Booth School of Business Center for Decision Research 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, Illinois phone: (773) EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology / Judgment and Decision Making Minor in Social Psychology The Ohio State University 2000 M.A., Experimental Psychology DePaul University 1996 B.A., Psychology DePaul University ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2007 present Research Scholar and Research Lab Manager, Center for Decision Research University of Chicago Booth School of Business Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo RESEARCH INTERESTS Self-Prediction of Future Behavior and Goal Achievement Decision Making Strategies and Processes Managerial and Organizational Decision Making Consumer Decision Making Behavioral Economics REFEREED PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS Koehler, D., White, R. & John, L. (2011). Good intentions, optimistic self-predictions, and missed opportunities, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2,

2 Morera, O., Maydeu-Olivares, A., Nygren, T., White, R., Fernandez, N., & Skewes, M. (2006). Social problem solving predicts decision making styles in a North American Hispanic sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, Nygren, T. & White, R. (2005). Relating decision making styles to predicting self-efficacy and a generalized expectation of success and failure. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49 th Annual Meeting, White, R. & Nygren, T. (2002). Influence of analytically and intuitively framed instructions upon multi-attribute decision task approach. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46 th Annual Meeting, Nygren, T. & White, R. (2002). Assessing individual differences in decision making styles: Analytical versus intuitive. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46 th Annual Meeting, White, R.J. & Hammer, C.A. (2000). Quiz-o-Matic: A free web-based tool for construction of self-scoring on-line quizzes. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 32, MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW / IN PREPARATION Ing, P., Rim, H.B., Nygren, T., Edwards, M., & White, R., A psychometric evaluation of the Decision Making Styles Inventory (under revision). Markle, A., Wu, G., White, R., & Sackett, A., Goals, performance, and satisfaction: Goals serve as reference points for marathon runners (in preparation). Nygren, T. & White, R., How do I decide? Development and validation of the Decision Making Styles Inventory (under revision). Sackett, A., Wu, G., White, R. & Markle, A., Harnessing Optimism: How Eliciting Goals Improves Performance (under review). White, R. & Koehler, D., Systematic Biases in Investor Self-Prediction of Future Risk Tolerance (in preparation). White, R. & Urminsky, O., Spending vs. Redemption: How cash gifts differ from gift cards (in preparation). REPRESENTATIVE PAPER PRESENTATIONS White, R. & Koehler, D. (06/2012). Systematic Biases in Investor Self-Prediction of Future Risk Tolerance. Paper presentation at the Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder, and (07/2012) at the International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa. PAGE 2

3 White, R. & Urminsky, O. (05/2012). Spending vs. Redemption: How Cash Gifts Differ From Gift Cards. Paper presentation at the Southern Ontario Behavioral Decision Research Conference, Waterloo, and (07/2012) at the International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa. Wu, G., Markle, A. Sackett, A. & White, R. (06/2010). Goals, performance, and satisfaction in marathon running. Paper presentation at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Pittsburgh. Wu, G., Markle, A. Sackett, A. & White, R. (11/2009). Goals and satisfaction in marathon running. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Boston. Nygren, T., White, R. & Edwards, M. (11/2008). Development and validation of the Decision Making Styles Inventory. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Chicago. Koehler, D., White, R. & John, L. (11/2007). The price of good intentions. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Long Beach. White, R., Koehler, D., & Li, A. (11/2007). Self-predictions of investment decisions in narrow and wide evaluation periods. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Long Beach. White, R. (05/2006). If it happens, you re a goner: The conditional fallacy in perception of dreaded events. Paper presentation at the Southern Ontario Behavioural Decision Research Conference, Toronto. White, R. & Nygren, T. (11/2005). Primed for deliberation: Automatic processes leading to analytical and intuitive decision strategies. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Toronto. White, R. & Nygren, T. (11/2005). Web tools for teaching judgment and decision making. Paper presentation at the Society for Computers in Psychology Annual Meeting, Toronto. White, R., Shaffer, V., Arkes, H., Avner, N., Braun, A., Broomell, S. & Staarmann, A. (11/2004). All funds are not created equal: the case of gift cards versus cash. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Minneapolis. Arkes, H., Shaffer, V., White, R., Broomell, S., Avner, N., & Anthony, E. (11/2004). Debiasing the sunk cost effect by punctuating mental accounts. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Minneapolis. White, R. & Navarro, D. (11/2003). Testing hypotheses of signal detection parameters using permutation methods. Paper presentation at the Society for Computers in Psychology, Vancouver. PAGE 3

4 White, R. & Nygren, T. (05/2003). Decision making styles, need for cognition, and rational thinking scales. Paper presentation at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. White, R. & Nygren, T. (11/2002). Decision making styles and information acquisition. Paper presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Kansas City. White, R. & Nygren, T. (10/2002). Influence of analytically and intuitively framed instructions upon multi-attribute decision task approach. Paper presentation at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore. Nygren, T. & White, R. (10/2002). Assessing individual differences in decision making styles: analytical vs. intuitive. Paper presentation at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore. Nygren, T. & White, R. (11/2001). Effects of analytical and intuitive decision making styles on betting behavior in horse race gambling. Paper presentation at the 42 nd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando. REPRESENTATIVE POSTER PRESENTATIONS White, R. & Urminsky, O. (06/2012). How Cash Gifts Differ From Gift Cards. Poster presentation at the Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, Boulder. White, R. & Nygren, T. (11/2009). The Decision Making Styles Inventory: Analysis of factor structure and factorial invariance. Poster Presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston. White, R., Wu, G., Markle, A. & Sackett, A. (11/2008). Goals, performance and satisfaction in marathon running. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Chicago. Chiu, A., White, R. & Wu, G. (11/2008). Thinking About Uncertainty: Deliberation in the Uncertainty Effect. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Chicago. John, L., White, R. & Koehler, D. (11/2006). Self-predictions of future behavior when money is on the line. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Houston. Nygren, T., White, R. & Snuttjer, K. (11/2006). Influence of decision making styles upon consumer choice. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Houston. PAGE 4

5 Marks, M., Arkes, H., White, R., Shaffer, V., Houlis, E. & Shoots, B. (05/2006). A study regarding the disregarding of knowledge. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, New York. White, R. (11/2005). Dread risk and the conditional fallacy. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Toronto. Arkes, H., Marks, M., White, R., Shaffer, V., Houlis, E. & Shoots, B. (11/2005). The disregarding of knowledge. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Toronto. Nygren, T. & White, R. (05/2005). The influence of decision making style on gambling task performance. Poster presentation at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. Shaffer, V., Arkes, H., White, R., Broomell, S., Avner, N., Staarmann, A., Braun, A. & Anthony, E. (11/2004). Preference reversals in cash versus non-cash incentives. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Minneapolis. Morera, O., Nygren, T., White, R., Fernandez, N., & Skewes. M. (11/2003). Assessing the measurement invariance of the Decision Making Styles Inventory. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Vancouver. Nygren, T. & White, R. (11/2003). Decision making styles and betting strategies. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Vancouver. White, R. & West, P. (11/2003). Perception of the influence of mood upon decision making. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Vancouver. Briggs, N. & White, R. (11/2003). A signal detection analysis of confidence judgments. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Vancouver. White, R. & Nygren, T. (08/2003). Decision making styles and guilt assessments. Poster presentation at the Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality and Economics, Max Planck Institute, Berlin. White, R., Shaffer V. & Arkes, H. (11/2002). Does the pursuit of information influence choice? Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Kansas City. White, R., Nygren, T. & Gosney, J. (11/2001). Decision making styles and performance on a dynamic, multiattribute decision task. Poster presentation at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Orlando. PAGE 5

6 MEDIA COVERAGE Savings Behavior: The Wall Street Journal; March 26, 2011: html The Guardian, January 3, 2011: Science Daily, August 27, 2010: Gift Cards: The Waterloo Chronicle; 1/4/2007; CBC News Radio (National); 12/19/2006; 570 News Radio (Ontario); 12/12/2006; The Columbus Dispatch; 12/10/2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: MANAGEMENT Teaching Assistant: Advanced Negotiations (MBA) Booth School of Business, 2012 Managing in Organizations (MBA) Booth School of Business, 2011 Strategies & Processes of Negotiation (MBA,4 terms) Booth School of Business, Managerial Decision Making (MBA) Booth School of Business, 2008 The Practice of Leadership in Business (MBA) Booth School of Business, 2007 Essentials of Effective Leadership* (Executive MBA, 3 terms) Booth, Managerial Decision Making and Negotiations* (Executive MBA, 5 terms) Booth, *Received Dean s Award for Excellence in Executive MBA Course Assisting, 8 terms TEACHING EXPERIENCE: PSYCHOLOGY Primary Instructor: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making Ohio State University, 2004 Introduction to Social Psychology (6 terms) Ohio State University, Introduction to Social Psychology DePaul University, Summer, 2002 Introductory Statistics (2 terms) DePaul University, Advanced Statistics DePaul University, Summer, 2001 Computing for the Behavioral Scientist (co-instructor) DePaul University, 1999 Lab Instructor: Introduction to Statistical Methods (3 terms) Ohio State University, Introductory Statistics (2 terms) DePaul University, 1999 Introductory Psychology I (2 terms) DePaul University, 1998 Introductory Psychology II DePaul University, 1998 Teaching Assistant: Judgment and Decision Making (6 terms) Ohio State University, Research Methods in Psychology DePaul University, 1999 PAGE 6

7 AWARDS, HONORS AND SERVICE Awards and Honors: 2012 Early-Career Recipient of APA-UNSC International Travel and Mentoring Grant to attend the International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa Web-Based Research Workshop, Invited Participant and Travel Grant Recipient, California State University, Fullerton Ohio State University Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship Recipient, ($2,000) in support of dissertation research Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Grant-in-Aid of Research Recipient, ($1,000) in support of dissertation research, Sigma Xi Induction, Hayes Graduate Research Forum Paper Presentation Award Recipient, Ohio State University (corresponding paper published in proceedings) Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics Invited Participant and Travel Grant Recipient, Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin, Germany 2001 Summer Research Fellowship Recipient, The National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago 1999 Summer Research Fellowship Recipient, The National Academies / National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. Service: Provided organizational support for the Capitalism without Poverty Symposium hosted by the Booth School of Business, 2009 Provided organizational support for the Using Human Nature to Improve Human Life conference, hosted by the Booth School of Business, 2008 Co-Organizer of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference Social Event, 2008 Co-Organizer of the Women in Judgment and Decision Making Event, Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, Assistant Coordinator, Waterloo Decision Research Seminar Series, 2007 Web Designer, Ohio State Quantitative Psychology Area, Coordinator, Ohio State Quantitative Psychology Colloquium Series, Web Designer, DePaul University Psychology Department, CONSULTING EXPERIENCE Workshops Designed and Presented for: University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, 2009-present Fiserv, 2012 Infosys Consulting, 2011 Argonne National Laboratory, 2011 Behavioral Research Specialist, Hewitt Associates, PAGE 7