About Me
My research focuses on judgment and decision making under uncertainty. You can find my CV here.
Working Papers
Fox CR, Goedde-Menke M, and Tannenbaum D. "Ambiguity aversion and epistemic uncertainty." [pdf] [ResearchBox]
Tannenbaum D, Fox CR, and Goldstein NJ. "Partitioning menu items to nudge single-item choice." [pdf] [supplemental material] [ResearchBox]
Tannenbaum, D. "Random error can explain the illusion of diversity." [pdf] [ResearchBox]
Publications
Tannenbaum D, Maréchal MA, and Cohn A (2023). A closer look at civic honesty in collectivist cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2313586120. [pdf] [supplemental material] [ResearchBox]
Tannenbaum D, Cohn A, Zünd CL, and Maréchal MA (in press). What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital? Review of Economics and Statistics. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Walters DJ, Ülkümen G, Tannenbaum D, Erner C, and Fox CR (2023). Investor behavior under epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty. Management Science, 69, 2761-2777. [pdf] [supplemental material] [ResearchBox]
Brimhall CR, Tannenbaum D, and VanEpps E (2023). Choosing more aggressive commitment contracts for others than for the self. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, 1-19. [pdf] [supplemental material] [ResearchBox]
Costa E, Inbar Y, Tannenbaum D (2022). Do registered reports make scientific findings more believable to the public? Collabra: Psychology, 8, 32607. [pdf] [supplemental material] [ResearchBox]
Critcher CR, Helzer EG, and Tannenbaum D (2020). Moral character evaluation: Testing another's moral-cognitive machinery. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103906. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Steffel M, Williams EF, and Tannenbaum D (2019). Does changing defaults save lives? Effects of presumed consent organ donation policies. Behavioral Science and Policy, 5, 69-88. [pdf]
Cohn A, Marachél MA, Tannenbaum D, and Zünd C (2019). Civic honesty around the globe. Science, 365, 70-73. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Krijnen J, Tannenbaum D, and Fox CR (2017). Choice architecture 2.0. Behavioral Science and Policy, 3, 1-18. [pdf]
Epley N and Tannenbaum D (2017). Treating ethics as a design problem. Behavioral Science and Policy, 3, 73-84. [pdf]
Hayakawa S, Tannenbaum D, Costa A, Corey J, and Keysar B (2017). Thinking more or feeling less? Explaining the foreign language effect on moral judgment. Psychological Science, 28, 1387-1397. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Tannenbaum D, Fox CR, and Rogers T (2017). On the misplaced politics of behavioural policy interventions. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0130. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Tannenbaum D, Fox CR, and Ülkümen G (2017). Judgment extremity and accuracy under epistemic versus aleatory uncertainty. Management Science, 63, 497-518. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Sah S, Tannenbaum D, Cleary H, Feldman Y, Glaser J, Lerman A, MacCoun R, Maguire E, Slovic P, Spellman B, Spohn C, and Winship C (2016). Combating biased decision making and improving justice and equal treatment. Behavioral Science and Policy, 2, 78-87. [pdf]
Tannenbaum D, Doctor JN, Persell SD, Friedberg MW, Meeker D, Friesema EM, Goldstein NJ, Linder JA, and Fox CR (2015). Nudging physician prescription decisions by partitioning the order set: Results of a vignette-based study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30, 298-304. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Tannenbaum D, Valasek CJ, Knowles ED, and Ditto PH (2013). Incentivizing wellness in the workplace: Sticks (not carrots) send stigmatizing signals. Psychological Science, 24, 1512-1522. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Uhlmann EL, Zhu L, and Tannenbaum D (2013). When it takes a bad person to do the right thing. Cognition, 126, 326-334. [pdf]
Pizarro DA, Tannenbaum D, and Uhlmann EL (2012). Mindless, harmless, and blameworthy. [commentary] Psychological Inquiry, 23, 185-188. [pdf]
Fox CR and Tannenbaum D (2011). The elusive search for stable risk preferences. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, article no. 298. [pdf]
Tannenbaum D, Uhlmann EL, and Diermeier D (2011). Moral signals, public outrage, and immaterial harms. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1249-1254. [pdf] [supplemental material]
Pizarro DA and Tannenbaum D (2011). Bringing character back: How the motivation to evaluate character influences judgments of moral blame. In M Mikulincer and PR Shaver (Eds), The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil (pp. 91–108). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [pdf]
Uhlmann EL, Pizarro DA, Tannenbaum D, and Ditto PH (2009). The motivated use of moral principles. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 479-491. [pdf]
Ditto PH, Pizarro DA, and Tannenbaum D (2009). Motivated moral reasoning. In DM Bartels, CW Bauman, LJ Skitka and DL Medin (Eds), Psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 50: Moral judgment and decision making (pp. 307-338). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. [pdf]
Crowd-Sourced Research Projects
Fišar M, Greiner B, Huber C, Katok E, Ozkes A, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration (2024). Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science, 70, 1343-1356. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Tierney W, Hardy J, Ebersole C, Leavitt K, Viganola D, Clemente E, Gordon M, Dreber A, Johannesson M, Pfeiffer T, Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, and Uhlmann E (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Tierney W, Schweinsberg M, Jordan J, Kennedy DM, Qureshi I, Sommer SA, Thornley N, Madan N, Vianello M, Awtrey E, Zhu LL, Diermeier D, Heinze JE, Srinivasan M, Tannenbaum D, Bivolaru E, Dana J, Davis-Stober CP, du Plessis C, ... Uhlmann EL (2016). Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative examining ten moral judgment effects. Nature: Scientific Data, 3, article number: 160082. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]
Schweinsberg M, Madan N, Vianello M, Sommer SA, Jordan J, Tierney W, Awtrey E, Zhu LL, Diermeier D, Heinze JE, Srinivasan M, Tannenbaum D, Bivolaru E, Dana J, Davis-Stober CP, du Plessis C, Gronau QF, Hafenbrack AC, Liao EY, ... Uhlmann EL (2016). The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 66, 55-67. [pdf] [supplemental material] [code and data]