The Home Page of J. Neil Bearden

J. Neil Bearden
INSEAD
Decision Sciences Area
138676 Singapore

Link to C urriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences Area, INSEAD, France/Singapore, 2007-

Assistant Research Professor, Eller College of Management, University of
Arizona, 2006-

Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, 2006-
2007

Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University,
2005-2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Management and Policy and Systems
and Industrial Engineering, The University of Arizona, 2003-2005

Ph.D., Mathematical Cognitive Psychology, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 2003

Faculty Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, The University of
Maryland at College Park, 1999-2000

Other Experience

IFREE’s Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics,
George Mason University, Washington, D.C., 2003

Winter School on Complex Systems, Institut des Systemes Complexes, Ecole
Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2002

Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 2001

Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Max Planck
Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, 2001

Some Research Papers

Operations Research and Applied Probability

Becker, W. J., Bearden, J. N., & Rapoport, A. Perishable asset dynamic pricing in the
laboratory. [Under review.]

Bearden, J. N., M urphy, R. O., & Rapoport, A. (in press). Decision b iases in r evenue
m anagement: Some b ehavioral e vidence. Manufacturing & Service Operations
Management.] [Please contact me for final version.]

Bearden, J. N., & Connolly, T. (in press). On optimal s atisficing: How simple strategies
can achieve excellent results. In Kugler, T., Smith J. C., Connolly, T., and Son, Y. J.
(Eds.). Decision Modeling in Uncertain and Complex Environments. Springer: New York.
[Please contact me for the final version.]

Bearden, J. N., & Murphy, R. O. (2007). On generalized secretary problems. In M.
Abdellaoui, R.D. Luce, M. J. Machina and B. Munier (Eds.), Uncertainty and Risk --
Mental, Formal and Experimental Representations. Springer: New York.

Bearden, J. N., & Connolly, T. (2007). M ulti-attribute sequential search. Organizational
Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 103, 147-158.

Smith, J. C., Lim, C., & Bearden, J. N. (2007). On the multi-attribute stopping problem
with general value functions. Operations Research Letters, 35, 324--330.

Bearden, J. N., Rapoport, A., & Murphy, R. O. (2006). Sequential o bservation and
s election with r ank-d ependent p ayoffs: An e xperimental t est. Management Science,
52, 1437-1449.

Bearden, J. N. (2006). A new secretary problem with rank-based selection and
cardinal payoffs. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 58-59.

Lim, C., Bearden, J. N., & Smith, C. (2006). Sequential search with multiattribute
options. Decision Analysis, 3, 3-15.

Bearden, J. N., Rapoport, A., & Murphy, R. O. (2006). E xperimental studies of
sequential selection and assignment with relative ranks. Journal of Behavioral
Decision Making, 19, 229-250.

Bearden, J. N., Murphy, R. O, & Rapoport, A. (2005). A m ulti-a ttribute e xtension of the
s ecretary p roblem: Theory and e xperiments. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 49,
410-422.

Bearden, J. N., & Rapoport, A. (2005). Operations r esearch in e xperimental
p sychology. In J. C. Smith (Ed.), Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging Theory,
Methods, and Applications, 213-236.

Bearden, J. N., Rapoport, A., & Seale, D. A. (2005). Entry t imes in q ueues with
e ndogenous a rrivals: Dynamics of p lay at the i ndividual and a ggregate l evels. In R.
Zwick and A. Rapoport (Eds.), Experimental Business Research Volume II, 201-221.
Springer: Dordrecht, Holland.

Cognitive Science

Bearden, J. N., Wallsten, T. W., & Fox., C. R. (2007). C ontrasting stochastic and
support theory accounts of subadditivity. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51, 229-
241.

Bayen, U. J., Erdfelder, E., Bearden, J. N., & Lozito, J. P. (2006). The interplay of
memory and judgment processes in effects of aging on hindsight bias. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 1003-1018.

Bearden, J. N., & Wallsten, T. S. (2004). MINERVA-DM and subadditive frequency
judgments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 349-363.

Experimental Economics

Bearden, J. N. Ultimatum bargaining experiments: The state of the art. Unpublished.

Agent-Based Simulation

Bearden, J. N. (2001). The e volution of i nefficiency in a s imulated s tag h unt. Behavior,
Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 33, 124-129.

Bearden, J. N. The Spin g lass b ead g ame. Unpublished.

Other Things

Rapoport, A., & Bearden, J. N. (2005). Strategic behavior in monkeys. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 9, 213-215.

My INSEAD Page

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Behavioral Operations Research
Behavioral Operations Management
Experimental Economics
Management Science
Behavioral Management Science
Secretary Problem
Behavioral Decision Theory
Behavioral Decision Making
Optimal Stopping
Sequential Assignment
Knapsack Problem
Sequential Search
Sequential Assignment
Behavioral Economics
Revenue Management
Decision Engineering
Poker Experiments
Experimental Poker
Optimal Poker Policies
von Nuemann Poker
von Neumann Poker
Economics of Poker
Optimal Poker Strategies
Eller Decision Behaviora Laboratory
Arizona Economic Science Laboratory
Arizona Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE)
Arizona MURI
AFOSR MURI
Support Theory

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