Robyn Dawes

Robyn Mason Dawes (born July 23, 1936 in Pittsburgh , † December 14, 2010 in Alliance , Ohio ) was an American psychologist who specialized in decision theories. He combined rational choice with psychoanalytic theories.

Dawes received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1958 . He earned a master's degree in clinical psychology in 1960 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , where he also received a doctorate in mathematical psychology in 1963 .

In his professional career he taught at the University of Oregon , where he became dean, and worked at the Oregon Research Institute . In 1985 he began his work at Carnegie Mellon University , where he later also became dean. He received membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected as a fellow in the American Statistical Association in 2006. In 2009 he retired.

Dawes died of Parkinson's in 2010 .

Works

Reid Hastie , Robyn Dawes: Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making . Sage Publications , 2010, ISBN 9781412959032 .
Robyn Dawes: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudoscientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Fail to Think Rationally . Westview Press , Boulder, CO 2003.
Robyn Dawes: House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth . Free Press , New York, NY 1996.
Robyn Dawes: The Fundamentals of Attitude Measurement . John Wiley & Sons , 1974.
Robyn Dawes: Mathematical Psychology: An Elementary Introduction (with Clyde Coombs and Amos Tversky ) . Prentice Hall , 1970.