Claudia González Vallejo
Dr. González Vallejo is serving as Program Director in the Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation.
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Education
MIA (1994) Columbia University, New York
Ph.D. (1992) University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Research
Research Areas
- Social Judgment & Behavioral Decision Making
Specializations
- Quantitative - Cognitive
Laboratory
Judgment and Decision Making Laboratory
Research Interests
Dr. Gonzalez-Vallejo’s research focuses on understanding how people make decisions as well as on the factors that affect people's judgments. She is primarily interested in choice behavior (preferences). Her work on choice behavior uses a stochastic model that she developed to investigate how individuals make trade-offs among characteristics of the options to be selected.
For example, many products may be described in terms of their quality and their price. Because typically higher quality also implies higher price, the decision will not be an easy one. How do individuals resolve the conflict inherit in choosing? What affects the consistency of decision-making? How do people perceive changes in attribute values as a function of the context? How does persuasion affect the evaluation of objects to determine a final choice? Some of the basic notions in this research program are also applied to consumer and medical decision-making situations. Current research is also exploring money-time tradeoffs, attitude changes and models of information updating, nutritional judgments and health. Dr. Gonzalez-Vallejo also is very interested in construct validity and philosophy of science more generally. This interest has led her to question the role of unconscious processing as defined and tested by current psychological research.
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
The influence of affect and goal priming on decision search behavior JL Harman, JM Weinhardt, C Gonzalez-Vallejo, JB Vancouver Current Psychology, 1-8, 2020
How Much Sugar is in My Drink? The Power of Visual Cues BD Merillat, C González-Vallejo Nutrients 12 (2), 394, 2020
Waiting in intertemporal choice tasks affects discounting and subjective time perception. P Xu, C González-Vallejo, B Vincent Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020
Compensatory Health Beliefs Relate to Decision-Making Coherence and Health Patterns BD Merillat, C González-Vallejo The Ohio Journal of Science 119 (2), 79-91, 2019
Unpacking decision difficulty: Testing action dynamics in Intertemporal, gamble, and consumer choices J Cheng, C González-Vallejo Acta psychologica 190, 199-216, 2018
Nutrient-specific system versus full fact panel: testing the benefits of nutrient-specific front-of-package labels in a student sample KA Carter, C González-Vallejo Appetite 125, 512-526, 2018
Use of the familiarity difference cue in inferential judgments P Xu, C González-Vallejo, J Weinhardt, J Chimeli, F Karadogan Memory & cognition 46 (2), 298-314, 2018 Action dynamics in intertemporal choice reveal different facets of decision process
Xu, P., González-Vallejo, C., & Vincent, B. T. (2020). Waiting in intertemporal choice tasks affects discounting and subjective time perception. Journal of experimental psychology. General.
Cheng, J., & González-Vallejo, C. (2018). Unpacking decision difficulty: Testing action dynamics in Intertemporal, gamble, and consumer choices. Acta psychologica, 190, 199-216.
Carter, K. A., & González-Vallejo, C. (2018). Nutrient-specific system versus full fact panel: Testing the benefits of nutrient-specific front-of-package labels in a student sample. Appetite, 125, 512-526.
Xu, P., González-Vallejo, C., Weinhardt, J., Chimeli, J. & Karadogan, F. (2018). Use of the familiarity difference cue in inferential judgments, Memory &Cognition, 46(2),298-314.
Cheng, J. & González-Vallejo, C. (2017) Action dynamics in intertemporal choice reveal different facets of decision process. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(1), 107-122. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1923. (IF 2014: 2.526).
González-Vallejo, C., Lavins, B. D., & Carter, K. (2016). Analysis of nutrition judgments using the Nutrition Facts Panel. Appetite, 105, 71-84.
Xu, P., González-Vallejo, C. & Xiong, C. H. (2016). State anxiety reduces procrastinating behavior. Motivation & Emotion, 1-13.
Cheng, J. & González-Vallejo, C. (2016). Attribute-wise mechanism vs. alternative-wise mechanism in intertemporal choice: Testing the proportional difference, trade-off and hyperbolic models. Decision, Jan 18, 2016.
Cheng, J. & González-Vallejo, C. (2015). Action dynamics in intertemporal choice reveal different facets of decision process. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, doi: 10.1002/bdm.1923.
González-Vallejo, C. & Lavins, B. D. (2015). Evaluation of breakfast cereals with the current NFP and FDA’s proposal. Public Health and Nutrition, 19(06), 1047-1058.
Cheng, J. & González-Vallejo, C. (2014). Hyperbolic discounting: Value and time processes of substance abusers and non-clinical individuals in intertemporal choice. PloS ONE 9(11): e111378. Doi:10.1271/journal.pone.0111378.
González-Vallejo, C., Stewart, T. R., Lassiter, G. D., & Weindhardt, J. M. (2014). How necessary is the unconscious as a predictive, explanatory, or prescriptive construct? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 28.
González-Vallejo, C., Cheng, J., Phillips, N., Chimeli, J., Bellezza, F. S., Harman, J. L., Lassiter, G. D., Lindberg, M. J. (2014). Early positive information impacts final evaluations: No deliberation-without-attention effect and a test of a dynamic judgment model. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27, 209-225.
Cheng, J., Lu, Y., Han, X., González-Vallejo, C., & Sui, N. (2012). Temporal discounting in heroin-dependent patients: No sign effect, weaker magnitude effect, and the relationship with inhibitory control. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20, 400-409.
Recent Presentations
Carter, K. & González-Vallejo, C. Nutrient-Specific System v. Full Fact Panel: Examining the Effect of FOP Labels on Nutritional Judgment and Choice. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, Canada, November, 2017.
Carter, K. & González-Vallejo, C. Nutrient-Specific System Trumps Full Fact Panel: Understanding Nutritional Judgment Using Lens Model Analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA, November, 2016.
Kausel, E., González-Vallejo, C., & Phillips, Nathaniel. Modelling and Testing the Joint Effects of Experience and Descriptions on Judgment and Choice. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA, November, 2016.
Cheng, J. & González-Vallejo, C. Unpacking Conflict and Uncertainty in Decision Difficulty: Testing Action Dynamics in Intertemporal Choice, Gamble Choice, and Consumer Choice. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA, November, 2016.
Xu, P. & González-Vallejo, C. (2016). The use of familiarity cue: Recognition cue as a sub-set of familiarity difference cue? Poster presented at the Max Planck Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany, May 2016.
Carter, K. A., González-Vallejo, C., & Lavins, B. (2016). Analysis of nutrition judgments using the nutrition facts panel. Poster presented at the Modern Modeling Methods conference, Storrs, CT, May 2016.
Carlitz, A., González-Vallejo, C., Kirwen, N., & Xu. P. (2016). Investigating the behavioral differences between described and experienced temporal discounting protocols. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society 28th Annual Convention, Chicago, May 2016.
González-Vallejo, C., & Cheng, J. Medición de procesos dinámicos pre-decisionales: Diferenciando la dificultad basada en 1) conflicto y en 2) incertidumbre. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, May 5, 2016.
González-Vallejo, C., Carter, K. & Lavins. B. Evaluación de la nutrición percibida por el consumidor en relación al etiquetado de los productos: Universidad de Chile, Centro de Estudios Cognitivos, April 27, 2016.
González-Vallejo, C., & Cheng, J. Medición de procesos dinámicos pre-decisionales: Diferenciando la dificultad basada en 1) conflicto y en 2) incertidumbre. Universidad de Chile, Centro de Estudios Cognitivos, April 27, 2016.
Carter, K. A., Alley, R. L., González-Vallejo, C., & Lavins, B. (2016). A lens model analysis of nutrition judgments. Poster presented at the Ohio University Exposition, Athens, OH, April 2016.
González-Vallejo, C., Carter, K. & Lavins. B. Evaluación de la nutrición percibida por el consumidor en relación al etiquetado de los productos: La experiencia en EEUU., Universidad de La Frontera, Escuela de Salud Pública, April 15, 2016.
González-Vallejo, C. & Carter, K. (2015). A Lens Model analysis of individual nutrition judgments: Using the Nutrition Facts Panel. Paper presented at the Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference (SPUDM), Budapest, Hungary, August 20, 2015.
Courses Taught
Graduate
- Multivariate Statistics I
- Advanced Testing Principles
- Judgment and Decision Making
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Statistics
- Tests and Measurements
- Human Judgment and Decision Making
- Food Matters: Explorations in Food Across the Liberal Arts (the Psychology of Food Choices module)
Recent Grants
National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program: Modeling the Underlying Dynamic Processes in Motivation and Decision Making: A Parsimonious Self-Regulatory Approach. (with Dr. Jeff Vancouver.) $408,060. August 2009-August 2012.
Graduate Students
Graduate Alumni
- Kristina Carter
- Dr. Jiuqing Cheng
- Dr. Jason Harman
- Dr. Janna Chimeli
- Dr. Aaron Reid, Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO of Sentient Decision Science
- Ping Xu