David Budescu

1975 - BA in Psychology and Statistics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
1979 - MA in Quantitative Psychology, University of NC at Chapel Hill
1980 - PhD in Quantitative Psychology, University of NC at Chapel Hill

• Human judgment
• Individual and group decision making under uncertainty and with vague information
• Information aggregation and “Wisdom of Crowds”
  
• Statistics for the behavioral and social sciences
• Applied Psychometrics

• Himmelstein, M, Budescu, D.V. & Ho, E.  (2023).The wisdom of many in few: Finding individuals who are as wise as the crowd. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.152(5), 1223-1244.
• Collins, R.N., Mandel, D.R. & Budescu, D.V. (2023). Performance-weighted aggregation: Ferreting out wisdom within the crowd. In: Seifert, M. (eds) Judgment in Predictive Analytics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 343. Springer, Cham
• Himmelstein, M., Budescu, D.V., Han, Y. (2023). The wisdom of timely crowds. In: Seifert, M. (eds) Judgment in Predictive Analytics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 343. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30085-1_8.
• Mandel, D.R., Irvin, D., Dhami, M.K. & Budescu, D.V. (2023).Meta-informational cue inconsistency and judgment of information accuracy: Spotlight on intelligence analysis. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(3), e2307.
• Benjamin, D. M., Morstatter F, Abbas, A. E., Abeliuk A., Atanasov, P., Bennett, S., Beger, A., Birari, S., Budescu, D.V., Catasta, M., Ferrar, E., Haravitch, L., Himmelstein, M., … Galstyan, A. (2023). Hybrid Forecasting of Geopolitical Events. AI Magazine, 44(1), 112-128.
• Himmelstein, M. & Budescu, D.V. (2023). Preference for human or algorithmic forecasting advice does not predict if and how it is used. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(1), e2285.
• Rabinovitch, H. Bereby-Meyer, Y. & Budescu, D.V. (2022).To deliberate or not? The role of intuition and deliberation when controlling for irrelevant information in selection decisions. Cognition, 225 105105
• Han, Y. & Budescu, D.V. (2022).Recalibrating probabilistic forecasts to improve their accuracy. Judgment and Decision Making. 17(1), 91-123.
• Du, N. & Budescu, D.V. (2021). The value of being precise. Journal of Economic Psychology.  83, 102358.   DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2020.102358
• Himmelstein, M., Atanasov, P. & Budescu, D.V. (2021). Forecasting forecaster accuracy: Contributions of past performance and individual differences. Judgment and Decision Making.16(2), 323-362.