By: Shilo Raube, Carnegie Mellon University
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Robyn Dawes was a key member of a remarkable group of Michigan psychology graduate students in the 1960s. Their work, begun here, was instrumental in establishing the now-flourishing field of judgment and decision making scholarship that has permeated and transformed thinking far beyond what might have been imagined at the time. (Consider, for instance, behavioral economics.) Sadly, Robyn died this week in Pittsburgh, after a remarkably productive and influential career. Following is an obituary from Carnegie Mellon University, where Robyn completed that career with great distinction:

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/December/dec15_dawesobituary.shtml