Daniel M. Bartels

 

Daniel M. Bartels

Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Decision Research
University of Chicago GSB
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

Office: 773-834-9857
E-mail: bartels@uchicago.edu
Vita (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education
Ph.D., Psychology, Northwestern University, 2007
    Thesis: Accounting for Some of the Flexibility of Morally-Motivated Judgment and Decision Making
    Committee: Douglas Medin (chair), Lance Rips, Reid Hastie
M.S., Psychology, Northwestern University, 2002
    Thesis: Proportion Dominance in Policy Evaluation
    Committee: Douglas Medin (chair), Lance Rips
B.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2001
    Thesis: Protected Values and the Anchoring Effect in Resource Tradeoff Dilemmas
Interests
Judgment, Reasoning, and Decision Making, Moral Psychology, Concepts and Categories
Journal Articles

Bartels, D. M. (2008). Principled Moral Sentiment and the Flexibility of Moral Judgment and Decision Making. Cognition, 108, 381-417.

Day, S. B., & Bartels (2008) Representation over Time: The effects of temporal distance on similarity. Cognition, 106, 1504-1513.

Bartels, D. M. & Medin, D. L. (2007) Are Morally-Motivated Decision Makers Insensitive to the Consequences of their Choices? Psychological Science, 18, 24-28.

Bartels, D. M. (2006). Proportion dominance: The generality and variability of favoring relative savings over absolute savings. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 100, 76-95.

Bloomfield, A., Sager, J., Bartels, D. M., & Medin, D. L. (2006). Caring about framing effects. Mind and Society, 5, 1504-1513.
Books

Bartels, D. M., Bauman, C. W., Skitka, L. J., & Medin, D. L., Eds. (forthcoming). Moral Judgment and Decision Making: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50. San Diego: Elsevier
Chapters

Iliev, R., Sachdeva, S., Bartels, D. M., Joseph, C. M., Suzuki, S., & Medin, D. L. (forthcoming). Attending to moral values. In D. M. Bartels, C. W. Bauman, L. J. Skitka, & D. L. Medin (Eds.) Moral Judgment and Decision Making: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 50. San Diego: Elsevier

Papers in Various Stages of Development

Bartels, D. M. & Rips, L. J. (working paper). Psychological Connectedness and Temporal Discounting.

Bartels, D. M. & Burnett, R. C (working paper). Proportion Dominance and Mental Representation: Resource Individuation Affects Sensitivity to Relative Risk Reduction.
Reviewed Conference Proceedings Papers

Day, S. B. & Bartels, D. M. (2005). The effects of prior use on preference. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2005. Hillsdale, NJ: Earlbaum.

Jameson, J. T., Gentner, D., Day, S. B., Christie, S., Colhoun, J., & Bartels, D. M. (2005). Clarifying the role of alignability in similarity comparisons. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2005. Hillsdale, NJ: Earlbaum.
Conference and Symposium Organization

Bauman, C. W., Bartels, D. M., Joseph, C. M., & Galinsky, A. D. (2007, April) Values-Driven Judgment and Reasoning. Funded by the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship and presented at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Illinois.

Bartels, D. M. (2006, November) Morally-Motivated Judgment and Decision Making. Symposium organized and presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.
Invited and Conference Presentations

Day, S. B. & Bartels, D. M. (2007, November). Similarity and Temporal Distance. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, California.

Bartels, D. M. (2007, August). Accounting for Some of the Flexibility of Moral Value-Driven Judgment. Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, Tennessee.

Bartels, D. M. & Rips, L. J. (2006, November) Personal Identity and Concern for the Future. Presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas.

Bartels, D. M. & Bennis, W. M. (2006, November) Deontology and Consequentialism in Morally-Motivated Decision Making. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.

Bartels, D. M. & Medin, D. L. (2006, November) Are Morally-Motivated Decision Makers Insensitive to the Consequences of their Choices? Presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas.

Iliev, R., Bartels, D. M., Sachdeva, S., & Medin, D. L. (2006, November) Cognitive Processing of Morally Relevant Tasks. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, Texas.

Day, S. B. & Bartels, D. M. (2006, July). Representation Across Time: Generalizing Temporal Effects on Perceived Similarity. Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.

Bartels, D. M. & Burnett, R. C. (2005, November) Representation in Decision Making: Individuation Affects Sensitivity to Relative Considerations. Presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Bartels, D. M. & Day, S. B. (2005, November) Low-Level Effects of Prior Use on Dimension Weights. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada.

Day, S. B. & Bartels, D. M. (2005, July). The effects of prior use on preference. Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.

Bartels, D. M. & Day, S. B. (2005, May). Event Representation in Temporal Context. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, California.

Bartels, D. M. (2004, November). Proportion Dominance: Individual Differences and Domain Generality of Sensitivity to Relative Savings. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hastie, R. & Bartels, D. M. (2004, October). How Neuroscientists Should Study Risky Decision Making. Presented at the National Institute on Drug Abuse symposium: "Drug Abuse: A Workshop on Behavioral and Economic Research", Bethesda, Maryland.

Day, S. B. & Bartels, D. M. (2004, August). Temporal Distance, Event Representation, and Similarity. Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Jameson, J. T., Gentner, D., Day, S. B., Christie, S., Colhoun, J., & Bartels, D. M. (2005, July). Clarifying the role of alignability in similarity comparisons. Presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.

Bartels, D. M. (2004, May). Absolute and Relative Savings Dimensions in Trinary Choice Sets: No Context Effects. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Bartels, D. M. (2003, November). Proportion dominance in joint and separate evaluation. Presented at the meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, Canada.

Bartels, D. M. (2003, May). Proportion dominance in policy evaluation. Presented at the meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Gurung, R. A. R, Lorenz, D., Bartels, D. M., & Krenzke, E. (2001, June). The Ask For Help Task: Measuring Support Seeking. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada.
Honors and Awards
2006-2007 Northwestern University, Dissertation Year Fellowship
2005 Northwestern University, Graduate Research Grant
2005 Northwestern University, Cognitive Science Program Travel Grant
2002-2003 Northwestern University, Cognitive Science Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research
2001-2005 Northwestern University, Department of Psychology Fellowship
2001 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Graduated summa cum laude
2000 NSF Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Training Institute on Culture, Cognition, and Environmental Decision Making