Aims & Scope

The study of judgment and decision making (JDM) concerns normative, descriptive, and prescriptive analysis of human judgments and decisions. These topics may be studied from theoretical or applied perspectives, with the use of experiments, surveys, analysis of existing data, and other necessary approaches. The journal covers relevant content from several fields, including cognitive psychology, experimental economics, and experimental philosophy. We expect contributions to be accessible to readers in at least these fields.

Contributions to Judgment and Decision Making must fall within the above bounds and reflect issues central to the field. These issues include, but are not limited to the following:

Judgment 

• probability judgment 
• forecasting
• risk perception
• probabilistic inferences
• heuristics & biases, and debiasing
• lens model analysis

Decision Making / Choice

• decisions under risk, uncertainty, and certainty
• intertemporal choice
• emotion/affect and decision making
• decision making across the lifespan
• individual differences in judgment and decision making (including cognitive style) 
• process models (e.g., fast-and-frugal heuristics, coherence-based decision theories)

Judgment and Decision Making with consequences for others and further topics

• risk communication
• expert judgment
• moral judgments and decisions 
• cheating 
• strategic decision making / social dilemmas / trust / economic games
• fairness, money allocation, social preferences
• parochialism (in-group bias)
• dynamic decision making
• experimental philosophy concerning topics of JDM
• JDM across the lifespan

Methodology and Theory

• development of new tests and measures (also for non-WEIRD cultures)
• methods for process tracing and strategy classification in JDM  
• development of new theories / modification or specification of existing theories 
• advances in methods for improving JDM (e.g., wisdom-of-the-crowd)

Please note that Judgment and Decision Making does not accept special issues, literature reviews (unless they feature a theoretical contribution, or represent a special point of view), applications of a decision analytic method (such as multi-criteria decision making) to particular problems (such as those in commerce), or articles written from the perspective of other fields and disciplines (particularly social psychology and neuroscience).

If you are unsure if your submission fits within the journal's scope, please contact one of the editors before submission.

Data and Code

We require submission of data at the time of submission. Data should be available to reviewers without the need to ask permission. The simplest way to do this is to put your data somewhere else, such as OSF, indicate the URL in the question about that on the submission form.

Alternatively, include the data file(s) with the paper under "Supplemental files" or "Original files" (and try to label them so that they are not confused with supplements).

Either way, include a "Data availability statement" at the end of the article indicating where the data (and code) can be found.

Please also include code if you think that might be helpful for understanding the data and analysis.

If the meanings of the variable names in the data are not obvious in the data or code, please also include a "codebook", a list of variable names and their meanings.

We accept the following types of articles: 

• Empirical Article*
• Review Article*
• Theory Article*
• Registered Report*
• Commentary (invited only)**