Jerome Busemeyer
{{Short description|Professor at Indiana University Bloomington}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1950}}
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
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| spouse = Meijuan Lu
| fields = Cognitive Psychology
Mathematical Psychology
| workplaces = Purdue University
Indiana University Bloomington
| alma_mater = University of Cincinnati
University of South Carolina
| thesis_title = The Combined Effects of Event Patterns and Payoffs on Choice Behavior in a Sequential Decision Making Task
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302952133
| thesis_year = 1979
| doctoral_advisor = Thomas Cafferty
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| known_for = Decision field theory
Quantum cognition
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Jerome Robert Busemeyer is a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences {{Cite web|url=http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/jbusemey.php|title=Jerome Busemeyer: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences: Indiana University Bloomington|website=psych.indiana.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-02-06}} and Cognitive Science Program.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cogs.indiana.edu|title=Cognitive Science at Indiana University}}
Busemeyer completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Cincinnati 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 University of Illinois until 1980. Afterwards, he became a faculty member at Purdue University until 1997, and then he joined the faculty at Indiana University-Bloomington. He was president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology in 1993, and he also served as the Manager of the Cognition and Decision Program at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research{{Cite web|url=http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/afosr/|title=AFOSR|access-date=2017-10-23|archive-date=2017-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103055424/http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/afosr/|url-status=dead}} in 2005–2007. He was Chief Editor of Journal of Mathematical Psychology from 2005 to 2010, and he is the inaugural Editor of the APA journal Decision.{{Cite web|url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/dec/|title=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 decision field theory.Busemeyer, J. R., & Townsend, J. T. (1993) [http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbusemey/psy_rev_1993.pdf Decision Field Theory: A dynamic cognition approach to decision making] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428175825/http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbusemey/psy_rev_1993.pdf |date=2019-04-28 }} He is also one of the developers of the field of quantum cognition.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.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rUk7gCoAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Jerome Busemeyer - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2017-02-06}}
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 university of Basel in Psychology, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/About-University/Dies-Academicus/Honorary-Awards-Dies-Academicus-Faculty-of-Psychology.html |title=Honorary Awards Faculty of Psychology |website= University of Basel |access-date=2020-10-20}}
- Distinguished Professor Indiana University, 2017
- Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
- Fellow Cognitive Science Society, 2017
- Society of Experimental Psychologists Howard C. Warren medal, 2015
- Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2006
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