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John Smith

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Rutgers University-Camden

Department of Economics

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Publications and Working Papers


My current research largely involves: 

*the relationship between stochastic choice and imperfect perception

(Reality is objective, you just perceive it imperfectly) 

The random thickness of indifference, with Sean Duffy  (May 2025) Supplemental Material


An economist and a psychologist form a line: What can imperfect perception of length tell us about stochastic choice? with Sean Duffy, Theory and Decision, forthcoming Supplemental Material


Stochastic choice and imperfect perception of line lengths: What is hiding in the noise? with Sean Duffy, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2025, 106: 102787  Supplemental Material


Imperfect perception and stochastic choice in experiments, with Pablo Brañas-Garza, Elements in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 2024, Cambridge University Press 

 

Visual judgments of length in the economics laboratory: Are there brains in stochastic choice? with Sean Duffy and Steven Gussman (RUC ’17), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 93: 101708 Supplemental Material


*and scrutinizing claims of learning that do not analyze observations across trials 

(Bob is not learning)

Signal Detection Theory's Learning Problem, with Sean Duffy  (coming soon)

On the dynamics of the responses in Frydman and Jin (2022): Nullius in verba,with Johanna Hertel (Jan 2025) Supplemental Material 

 

On Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning: Another look at Kording and Wolpert (2004), with Sean Duffy, Johanna Hertel, Deniz Igan, and Marcelo Pinheiro, Cortex, 2022, 153: 87-96 Supplemental Material Stage 1 IPA on OSF

 

Central tendency bias in belief elicitation, with Paolo Crosetto, Antonio Filippin, and Peter Katuščák, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 78: 102273 Supplemental Material

 

On the Category Adjustment Model: Another look at Huttenlocher, Hedges, and Vevea (2000), with Sean Duffy, Mind and Society, 2020, 19: 163-193 Supplemental Material

 

Omitted-variable bias and other matters in the defense of the category adjustment model: A comment on Crawford (2019), with Sean Duffy, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020, 85: 101501 Supplemental Material

 

Category effects on stimulus estimation: Shifting and skewed frequency distributions-A reexamination, with Sean Duffy, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2018, 25(5): 1740-1750 Supplemental Material Psychonomic Blog

Links

Google scholar

OSF

IDEAS

SSRN

ORCID

Department maintained website

 Co-director of Camden Decision Lab

Affiliate and Webmaster of BEEMA

Always keep this in mind 

Details 

421 and 436 Armitage Hall

311 North 5th Street

Camden, New Jersey 

08102  USA

 (856) 225-6319

 smithj@camden.rutgers.edu

Summer 2025 

No scheduled Office Hours 

until September 2

Zoom 

Spring 2025 Teaching

Econ 203 Intermediate Micro: Canvas Syllabus

see "Old Syllabi" for previous semesters

What's going on in Camden?

Run the (Ben Franklin) Bridge

How long is the line for coffee?


Check if it is sunny in Philadelphia (from Camden)


Root, root, root for your Raptors


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