@MISC{Birnbaum_chaptermethodological, author = {Michael H. Birnbaum}, title = {CHAPTER Methodological and Ethical Issues in Conducting Social Psychology Research via the Internet}, year = {} }
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When I set out to recruit highly educated people with specialized training in decision making, I anticipated that it would be a difficult project. The reason I wanted to study this group was that I had been obtaining some very startling results in decision-making experiments with undergraduates (Birnbaum & Navarrete, 1998; Birnbaum, Patton, & Lott, 1999). Undergraduates were systematically violating stochastic dominance, a principle that was considered both rational and descriptive, according to cumulative prospect theory and rank dependent expected utility theory, the most widely accepted theories of decision making at the time (Luce & Fishburn, 1991;