Jerome Robert Busemeyer is a Distinguished Professor at

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in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science Program. Busemeyer completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the

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in 1973, which he followed with both a masters and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1976 and 1979 respectively. He was a NIMH post doctoral fellow in the Quantitative program at

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until 1980. Afterwards, he became a faculty member at

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until 1997, and then he joined the faculty at Indiana University-Bloomington. He was president of the Society for

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in 1993, and he also served as the Manager of the Cognition and Decision Program at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2005-2007. He was Chief Editor of ''

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'' from 2005 to 2010, and he is the inaugural Editor of the APA journal ''Decision''.

Research

His research investigates the cognitive processes and dynamics of human judgment and decision making using mathematical modeling. He is one of the developers of a theory of decision making called

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. He is also one of the developers of the field of

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.Busemeyer, J., Bruza, P. (2012), Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. He has authored several books and hundreds of articles over the course of his career.

Personal History

Jerome Busemeyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the year 1950. He attended Moeller High School. He married a Traditional Doctor of Chinese Medicine named Meijuan Lu. He has two sons, James and Brian, and a step son Sheng Yi. His father was Robert H. Busemeyer, who was a well known electrical contractor in Cincinnati.

Awards

* Honorary Doctorate of the

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in Psychology, 2019 * Distinguished Professor Indiana University, 2017 * Fellow of

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, 2017 * Fellow

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, 2017 * Society of Experimental Psychologists

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medal, 2015 * Fellow of the

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, 2006

References

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