Shahar Hechtlinger was awarded the de Finetti Award of the European Association for Decision Making
The EADM recognizes outstanding research in the field of decision making
Shahar Hechtlinger, predoc at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, was awarded the de Finetti Award of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM).
In her paper, The Psychology of Life’s Most Important Decisions, together with her co-authors, Shahar Hechtlinger introduces a new conceptual framework for transformative life decisions. These decisions have a significant impact on the course of a person's future, for example emigrating, ending a marriage, or reporting a sexual assault. Her research is grounded in bounded and ecological rationality and identifies five dimensions of transformative life decisions: conflicting cues, changes of self, uncertain experiential value, irreversibility, risk and outlines strategies people can use to navigate these challenges. By combining this framework with text-based analysis methods, she aims to move beyond lab studies that rely on highly simplified, stylized models and offer tools to better understand how life-shaping choices influence individuals and societies.
The European Association for Decision Making (EADM) is an interdisciplinary organisation dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision making. The Award was originated in 1995 to recognize outstanding research by PhD students in the area of decision making. The winner will receive prize money of 750 Euros and a certificate.
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