Rick Larrick

     
Institution
Duke University

Current Position
Professor of Management

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Michigan, 1991

Research Interests
Attribution
Group Processes
Judgment/Decision Making
Motivation/Goal Setting
Organizational Behavior

Blog
The MPG Illusion

Courses Taught
Leadership, Ethics, and Organization
Negotiation
Power and Politics in Organizations

 
Rick Larrick
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
Box 90120
Durham, North Carolina 27708
U.S.A.

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Work: (919) 660-4076
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Fax: (919) 684-2818
Vita

Rick Larrick
Professor Larrick has research interests in individual and group decision processes, including rational models of judgment and choice, debiasing, wisdom of crowds, goals, and environmental decisions.


Journal Articles:

  • Burson, K. A., Larrick, R. P., & Klayman, J. (2006). Skilled or unskilled, but still unaware of it: How perceptions of difficulty drive miscalibration in relative comparisons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 60-77
  • Burson, K. A., Larrick, R. P., & Lynch, J. G. (in press). Six of one, half dozen of the other: Expanding and contracting numerical dimensions produces preference reversals. Psychological Science.
  • Heath, C., Larrick, R. P., & Wu, G. (1999). Goals as reference points. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 79-109.
  • Janicik, G. A., & Larrick, R. P. (2005). Social network schemas and the learning of incomplete networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 348-364.
  • Larrick, R. P., & Boles, T. L. (1995). Avoiding regret in decisions with feedback: A negotiation example. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 63, 87-97.
  • Larrick, R. P., Burson, K. A., & Soll, J. B. (2007). Social comparison and confidence: When thinking you're better than average predicts overconfidence (and when it does not). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 76-94
  • Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2008). The MPG illusion. Science, 320, 1593-1594.
  • Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2006). Intuitions about combining opinions: Misappreciation of the averaging principle. Management Science, 52, 111-127
  • Morris, M. W., & Larrick, R. P. (1995). When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution. Psychological Review, 102, 331-355.
  • Morris, M. W., Larrick, R. P., & Su, S. K. (1999). Misperceiving negotiation counterparts: When situationally determined bargaining behaviors are attributed to personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 52-67.
  • Soll, J. B., & Larrick, R. P. (in press). Strategies for revising judgment: How (and how well) people use the judgments of others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Other Publications:

  • Larrick, R. P. (2004). Debiasing. In D. J. Koehler & N. Harvey (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making, Oxford: UK.

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