Research Focus
Leonard Adelman’s research is oriented toward (1) understanding judgment and decision processes, and (2) designing and evaluating systems to support them. Regarding the former, Adelman has performed research to understand how people define (or “frame”) judgment and decision problems. He has shown, for example, that how people frame problems can significantly affect the type of decision options they generate and select; anchor them on an incorrect cause of the problem because it leads them to emphasize confirmatory instead of dis-confirmatory information; and result in order effects, where the same information presented in different ordered sequences can result in different decisions.
