Michael L. DeKay

Michael L. DeKay studies how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty, with a particular focus on 'framing effects' — how the same choice can lead to different decisions depending on whether it is described in terms of gains or losses. His recent work closely examines the risky-choice framing effect through replications, reanalyses, and a method he calls 'metastudies' that combines multiple related studies to build more robust conclusions. He also studies probability judgment errors, such as the gambler's fallacy (mistakenly expecting random events to 'balance out').

Publication output was low or intermittent for much of the past decade but has increased notably since 2022, with a clear surge in 2024–2026.

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