Shir Dekel

Shir Dekel

About me

I recently completed a PhD thesis, investigating biases that occur in managerial capital allocation decisions. You can read it here.

I also have management consulting experience, including engagements in the oil and gas, consumer products, and telecoms sectors.

Interests
  • Decision-making
  • Behavioural economics
Education

  • PhD (Science), 2021

    The University of Sydney

  • BPsych (Honours I), 2016

    The University of Sydney

Recent Publications

Shir Dekel, Bruce Burns, Micah Goldwater (2021). Leaping across the Mental Canyon: Higher-Order Long-Distance Analogical Retrieval. PsyArXiv.

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Shir Dekel, Micah Goldwater, Dan Lovallo, Bruce Burns (2021). Effect of Choice Bracketing on Risk Aggregation in Repeated-Play Gambles With No Feedback. PsyArXiv.

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Shir Dekel, Micah Goldwater, Dan Lovallo, Bruce Burns (2021). Anecdotal Bias in Capital Allocation Depends on Anecdote Similarity. PsyArXiv.

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Shir Dekel, Micah Goldwater, Dan Lovallo, Bruce Burns (2021). Project Similarity Bias and Variance Neglect in Forecast Metric Evaluation. PsyArXiv.

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