LOLA L. LOPES Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education 111 JH The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1000 lola-lopes@uiowa.edu Joined the College of Business: 1990 Education: PhD, Psychology, University of California-San Diego, 1974; MA, Psychology, California State University-Long Beach, 1971; BA, Psychology, University of Redlands, 1962.

Focus:

• Judgment and decision making
• Organizational behavior
• Cognition and management

Expertise:

• Decision making under risk
• Judgment process
• Rational inference and choice

Current Projects:

• Formal Models Connecting Risk Attitude, Risk Perception and Attention.
• Currently working on developing and testing a model of risky choice that includes both long-term attitudes towards risk and short-term situationally-based aspirations.

Selected Publications:

• "Psychology and Economics: Perspectives on risk, cooperation, and the marketplace," Annual Review of Psychology, 1994.
• "Algebra and process in the modeling of risky choice," Decision Making from the Perspective of Cognitive Psychology, J.R. Busemeyer, R. Hastie, & D. Medin (Eds.), Academic Press 1995.
• "When time is of the essence: Averaging, aspiration, and the short run," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1996.
• "The role of aspiration level in risky choice: A comparison of Cumulative Prospect Theory and SP/A Theory," Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1999.