Adam Goodie, Ph.D.
Psychology
Phone: (706) 542-6624
goodie@uga.edu

My research investigates people’s attitudes toward risk when they have some control over an uncertain event. This has been found to differ in fundamental ways from risk taking when the decision maker doesn’t have control. People have been found to be willing to bet on answers in which they are highly confident, even beyond levels of risk that make those bets unfavorable. They are much less inclined to bet on answers in which they are less confident, even when the risk is so low as to make the bets favorable over the long run. This has wide-ranging possible applied relevance. For example, pathological gamblers appear to be more prone to it than others, suggesting a promising avenue for understanding this disorder.

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