Gretchen Chapman

Gretchen Chapman is a cognitive psychologist known for her work on judgment and decision making in health-related contexts, such as clinical decision making and patient preferences, preventive health behavior, and vaccination. She is Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Chapman served as an Editor of the journal ''Psychological Science'' and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Chapman received the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of applied research. Her award citation noted her achievement in producing "a steady stream of important research on behavioral decision theory and its application to health. ... [The research] increased our understanding of several basic phenomena, including underadjustment after anchoring, loss-aversion, the sunk-cost effect, and discounting in intertemporal choice. ...She has achieved new insights about the relation between imprudent behaviors, such as smoking, and the general tendency to neglect future consequences. ... Her work is responsible, careful, influential, and yes, wise."

She received the 1996 Division of Experimental Psychology, American Psychological Association award for an outstanding young investigator published in ''Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied'' for her paper ''Learning lessons from sunk costs'' co-authored by Brian Bornstein Chapman and her colleagues received the 2000 Society for Medical Decision Making Award for Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator., for their paper ''Familiarity and time preferences: Decision making about treatments for migraine headaches and Crohn's disease.'' Her other awards include the 2011 Distinguished Research Award from the New Jersey Psychological Association,.

Chapman co-edited (with Frank Sonnenberg) "Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, And Applications." Provided by Wikipedia