Society for Mathematical Psychology

Team from California State University Fullerton and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign win Outstanding Paper Award

Daniel R. Cavagnaro and Michel Regenwetter win the 2025 Computational Brain & Behavior Outstanding Paper Award.

MATHPSYCH.ORG —

Daniel R. Cavagnaro and Michel Regenwetter were awarded with the prestigious Society for Mathematical Psychology 2025 Computational Brain & Behavior Outstanding Paper Award, recognizing the most outstanding paper published in Computational Brain & Behavior in the preceding three years. They were honored for their paper "Probabilistic Choice Induced by Strength of Preference" (Volume 6, pages 569–600, (2023); https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-023-00176-3)

The award was announced during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology on 27 July 2025. The Computational Brain & Behavior Outstanding Paper Award is sponsored by Springer.

According to the nomination, "At a time when many are concerned about the lack of well-grounded theory in psychology, this work offers a much-needed step forward. It gives researchers in many areas a path away from default assumptions that, over decades of wholesale use, may have colored or even distorted research findings across several scientific disciplines."

Daniel R. Cavagnaro is Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, Fullerton.

Michel Regenwetter is Professor of Psychology, Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is affiliated with the Center for Social & Behavioral Science and the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

You can read the full paper at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-023-00176-3.

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