Robyn Dawes

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

Dawes 1958 he received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Harvard University. In 1960 he received a master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received his doctorate in mathematical psychology in 1963.

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

Dawes died in 2010 from Parkinson's disease.

Works

• Reid Hastie, Robyn Dawes: Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. Sage Publications, 2010, ISBN 9,781,412,959,032th
• 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.

• Psychologist
• University teachers ( University of Oregon )
• University teachers ( Carnegie Mellon University)
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Americans
• Born in 1936
• Died in 2010
• Man