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Lyle Brenner

Lyle Brenner

My research is focused on modeling human judgment and decision-making. Past work has addressed the determinants of overconfident predictions, models of subjective probability, the consequences of comparisons on evaluations & choice, and different conceptions of loss aversion. I also have an abiding interest in methodology, and if given the chance will rant endlessly about various methodological pet peeves.

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Causal Attribution
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

  • Bilgin, B., & Brenner, L. (2008). Temporal distance moderates description dependence of subjective probability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 890-895.
  • Brenner, L. (2003) A random support model of the calibration of subjective probabilities. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90, 87-110.
  • Brenner, L. (2000). Should observed overconfidence be dismissed as a statistical artifact? Critique of Erev, Wallsten & Budescu (1994). Psychological Review, 107, 943-946.
  • Brenner, L., & Koehler, D. (1999) Subjective probability of disjunctive hypotheses: Local-weight models for decomposition of evidential support. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 16-47.
  • Brenner, L., & Rottenstreich, Y. (1999). Focus, repacking, and the judgment of disjunctive hypotheses. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 12, 141-148.
  • Brenner, L., Griffin, D., & Koehler, D. (2005). Modeling patterns of probability calibration with Random Support Theory: Diagnosing case-based judgment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97, 64-81.
  • Brenner, L., Koehler, D., Liberman, V., & Tversky, A. (1996). Overconfidence in probability and frequency judgments: A critical examination. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 65, 212-219.
  • Brenner, L., Rottenstreich, Y., & Sood, S. (1999). Comparison, grouping and preference. Psychological Science, 10, 225-229.
  • Brenner, L., Rottenstreich, Y., Sood, S., & Bilgin, B. (2007). On the psychology of loss aversion: Possession, valence, and reversals of the endowment effect. Journal of Consumer Research, 34, 369-376.
  • Koehler, D., Brenner, L., & Tversky, A. (1997). The enhancement effect in probability judgment. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 10, 293-313.
  • Rottenstreich, Y., Brenner, L., & Sood, S. (1999). Similarity between hypotheses and evidence. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 110-128.
  • Rottenstreich, Y., Sood, S., & Brenner, L. (2007). Feeling and thinking in memory-based versus stimulus-based choices. Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 461-469.
  • Sood, S., Rottenstreich, Y., & Brenner, L. (2004). On decisions that lead to decisions: Direct and derived evaluations of preference. Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 17-25.
  • Ward, A., & Brenner, L. (2006). Accentuate the negative: The positive effects of negative acknowledgment, Psychological Science, 11, 959-962.

Other Publications:

  • Koehler, D. J., Brenner, L., & Griffin, D. (2002). The calibration of expert judgment: Heuristics and biases beyond the laboratory. In T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, and D. Kahneman (Eds.), The Psychology of Judgment: Heuristics and Biases.

Courses Taught:

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Managerial Decision Making
  • Statistics & Research Methods

Lyle Brenner
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida, Bryan Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7150
United States of America

  • Phone: (352) 273-3272
  • Fax: (352) 846-0457

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