June 7 2007

On June 15, Robin Hogarth will be awarded the degree of "doctor honoris causa" by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hogarth is ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at UPF, a position he has held since 2002.

Previously, he was the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where he served as Deputy Dean from 1993 to 1998. Hogarth was a member of the Chicago faculty from 1979 to 2001 prior to which he held appointments at INSEAD in France and the London Business School. He earned his MBA from INSEAD (1968) and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1972). His research has focused mainly on the psychology of judgment and decision making and he has published several books (including Judgement and Choice, Wiley, 2nd ed., 1987) and many articles in leading professional journals (e.g., Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Management Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty). He is a past President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (in the USA) and President-elect of the European Association for Decision Making. His most recent book, Educating Intuition, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001.