David R. Mandel
Professor
Department of Psychology
York University
United States of America
Biography
David Mandel's current full-time position is as senior defence scientist in the Sensemaking and Decision Group of the Socio-Cognitive Systems Section at DRDC Toronto, part of an agency of the Canadian government's Department of National Defence. He was an associate professor of psychology from 2001-2004 at University of Victoria, leaving as a tenured faculty member; a senior lecturer in psychology at University of Hertfordshire from 1998-2001; and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University from 1996-1998. He was also cross-appointed at the University of Toronto (St. George) from 2004-2011.
Research Interest
descriptive, normative, and prescriptive aspects of human judgment, decision making, thinking, and reasoning, expert judgment in the area of intelligence analysis
Publications
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Mandel D R(2008)Violations of coherence in subjective probability: A representational and assessment processes account. Cognition106:130-56.
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Mandel DR, Vartanian O (2009) Weighting of contingency information in causal judgment: Evidence of hypothesis dependence and use of a positive-test strategy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62:2388-408.
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Mandel D R ,Vartanian O (2010) Bush v. Bin Laden: Effect of state emotion on perceived threat is mediated by emotion towards the threat agent. International Review of Social Psychology 23: 5-23.
