Julie R. Irwin
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Prof. Irwin received her BA (high honors)
in Psychology and English from the College of William and Mary . She received an MA and Ph.D. in Cognitive
Psychology from the University of Colorado ; her thesis advisor was Gary McClelland . After
graduate school she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in quantitative
psychology at the University of Illinois . Before joining the University of Texas at Austin
in 1999, she served on the faculty in marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York
University, and as a visiting professor at The Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Her primary research interest is judgment and
decision making . Her research has been published in marketing, psychology,
economics, and multidisciplinary journals. She recently edited a special issue
of the Journal of Consumer Psychology,
and was appointed to the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes. In 1995 she was awarded a three-year National
Science Foundation grant (in collaboration with James H. Davis) to study group
judgment, and is currently a co-Investigator on a three-year National Science
Foundation grant (
Marketing
Department