A colloquium by Dr. Reid Hastie Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science University of Chicago Graduate School of Business presented by Law, Psychology, and Human Development, Department of Human Development, Cornell Law School, Department of Psychology, & Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research

Hastie earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Stanford University in 1968, and a PhD in psychology from Yale University in 1973. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001. He studies judgment and decision making (managerial, legal, medical, engineering, and personal), memory and cognition, and social psychology. He is best known for his research on legal decision making and on social memory and judgment processes. He is currently studying the psychology of investment decisions, the role of explanations in concept representations, civil jury decision making, and decision making competencies across the adult lifespan. Hastie has served on review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Research Council; his research has been funded continuously since 1975. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals, including the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.