Vita

R.Duncan Luce1925-2012

Born: May 16, 1925.

Died: August 11, 2012.

Education:BS (1945) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautical Engineering.PhD (1950) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics.

Academic Positions Held:M.I.T: 1950-53 Co-director, Group Networks Laboratory, Research Labora-

tory of Electronics.Columbia University: 1953-57 Managing Director, Behavioral Models Project;

1954-57 Assistant Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Sociology.Harvard University: 1957-59 Lecturer on Social Relations.University of Pennsylvania: 1959-68 Professor of Psychology; 1968-69 Ben-

jamin Franklin Professor of Psychology.Institute for Advanced Study: 1969-72 Visiting Professor.University of California, Irvine: 1972-75 Professor of Social Science.Harvard University: 1976-81 Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Psychol-

ogy; 1981-84 Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology and SocialRelations; 1983-88 Victor S. Thomas Professor of Psychology; 1988- Victor S.Thomas Professor of Psychology, Emeritus.

University of California, Irvine: 1988-94 Distinguished Professor of Cogni-tive Sciences; 1988-92 Director, Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behav-ioral Science; 19921998 Director, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sci-ence; 1993-94 Professor of Economics; 19942012 Emeritus and DistinguishedResearch Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Research Professor of Economics.

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Honors, Awards, Lectureships:1945: Tau Beta Pi1945: Sigma Xi1954-55: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences1963: Society of Experimental Psychologists1965: Lester R. Ford award for an expository paper in The American Math-

ematical Monthly in 19941966: American Academy of Arts and Sciences1966-67: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences1966-67: Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation1968-69: Visiting Professor, Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil1970: Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, American Psychological

Association1972: National Academy of Sciences1975: Phi Beta Kappa1976: MA (honorary) Harvard University1980-81: Guggenheim Fellowship1984-85: Visitor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ1986-87: American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for

Behavioral Science Research1987-88: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences1994: UCI Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Research1994: American Philosophical Society1994: American Psychological Foundation, F.J. McGuigan Lecturer1996: Man of the Year-1996, American Biographical Institute1996-97: International Man of the Year, International Biographical Centre,

Cambridge, England.1999: International Man of the Millennium, International Biographical Cen-

tre, Cambridge, England.2001: UCI Medal.2001: Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology,

American Psychological Foundation.2003: The Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Award for Distinguished University Service,

UCI.2003: Frank P. Ramsey Medal of the Decision Analysis Society.2003: National Medal of Science (presented in 2005).2004: Norman Anderson Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology,

Society for Experimental Psychologists.2007: ICI Alumni Association Extraordinarius Award.2007: University of Waterloo, Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics2008: Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Outstanding Paper Award for

2005-07, to Ragnar Steingrimsson and Luce, JMP, 51, 29-44.2010: Fellow, Econometric Society.2010: Fellow, Eastern Psychological Association.

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Professional Affiliations:American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fellow; Chair of

Psychology Section, 1999-2000.American Mathematical Society: Member.American Psychological Association: Fellow, Div. 1 (Executive Committee,

2000), 3, and 5; Board of Scientific Affairs, 1993-96.American Psychological Foundation: Committee on the F.J. McGuigan lec-

turer, 1996-98.American Psychological Society: Fellow; Board of Directors, 1989-91.Beckman Institute, University of Illinois: External Advisory Committee,

1990-94.Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences: Vice Pres-

ident, 1984-87; President, 1988-91.Mathematical Association of America: Member.Mathematical Social Science Board: 1964-68, 1971-74; Chairman, 1966-68,

1972-74.National Academy of Sciences: Member; Chairman, Psychology Section,

1980-83; Chairman, Class V: Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1983-86; ReportReview Committee, 1982-1989; ByLaws Committee, 1982-3, 1984-85; Commit-tee on Structure, 1985-87; Nominating Committee, 1986, 1987, 1988.

National Research Council: Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences,Member, 1973-76, Chairman, 1976-79; Committee on Risk Assessment in NRCReports, 1981; Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sci-ences, Co-chairman, 1984-88; Committee on National Needs for Biomedical andBehavioral Research Personnel, 1993-1994; Board on Mathematical Sciences,1994-97.

Psychometric Society: Member, President, 1976-77.Psychonomic Society: Member; Representative to Federation of Behavioral,

Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, 1983-85.Society for Judgment/Decision Making: Member; Executive Committee,

1987-90.Society for Mathematical Psychology: Member; Executive Committee, 1978-

80; President, 1979.

Current Journal Editorial Responsibilities:International Society of Group-Theoretic Cognitive Science: Distinguished

Honorary Member of the Editorial BoardJournal of Mathematical Psychology : Editorial Advisory BoardJournal of Risk and Uncertainty : Advisory EditorsTheory and Decision: Consulting EditorMathematical Social Sciences: Editorial BoardMeasurement Science Review: Editorial Board

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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF R. DUNCAN LUCE

Books

(1957) (- - -, & Raiffa, H.) Games and Decisions: Introduction and CriticalSurvey. New York: Wiley. (Reprinted in 1989 by Dover Publications)

(1959) Individual Choice Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis. New York: Wiley.

(1971) (Krantz, D.H, - - -, Suppes, P., & Tversky, A.) Foundations of Measure-ment, Vol. I, Academic Press. Reprinted (2007) by Dover Publications.

(1986) Response Times. New York: Oxford University Press.

(1989) (Suppes, P., Krantz, D.H., - - -, & Tversky, A) Foundations of Measure-ment, Vol. II, Academic Press. Reprinted (2007) by Dover Publications.

(1990) (- - -, Krantz, D.H., Suppes, P., & Tversky, A.) Foundations of Measure-ment, Vol. III, Academic Press. Reprinted (2007) by Dover Publications.

(1993) Sound & Hearing, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

(2000) Utility of Gains and Losses: Measurement-Theoretical and Experimen-tal Approaches. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Errata:Luce web page at http//www.socsci.uci.edu

Edited Books

(1959) (Tucker, A.W., & - - -, Eds.) Contributions to the Theory of Games,IV, Annals of Mathematics Study, 40. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress.

(1960) (Ed) Developments in Mathematical Psychology: Information, Learn-ing, Tracking.Glencoe: Free Press.

(1963) (- - -, Bush, R.R., & Galanter, E., Eds.) Handbook of MathematicalPsychology, Vols. 1 & 2. New York: Wiley.

(1963) (- - -,. Bush, R.R., Galanter, E., Eds.) Readings in Mathematical Psy-chology, Vol. 1. New York: Wiley.

(1965) (- - -, Bush, R.R., & Galanter, E. Eds.) Handbook of MathematicalPsychology. Vol. 3. New York: Wiley.

(1965) (- - -, Bush, R.R., & Galanter, E., Eds.) Readings in MathematicalPsychology, Vol. 2. New York: Wiley.

(1974) (Atkinson, R.C., Krantz, D.H., - - -, & Suppes, P., Eds.). ContemporaryDevelopments in Mathematical Psychology, Vols. 1 and 2. San Francisco:Freeman.

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(1988) (Gerstein, D., - - -, Smelser, N.J., & Sperlich, S., Eds.) The Behav-ioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities. Washington:National Academy Press.

(1988) (Atkinson, R.C., Herrnstein, R.J., Lindzey, G., & - - -, Eds.) StevensHandbook of Experimental Psychology. Vols. I and II, New York: Wiley.

(1989) (- - -, Smelser, N., & Gerstein, D., Eds.) Leading Edges in the Behav-ioral and Social Sciences. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.

(1995) (- - -, DZmura, M., Hoffman, D, Iverson, G., & Romney, A.K., Eds.)Geometric representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in honor ofTarow Indow on his 70th birthday. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum As-sociates.

Scientific Papers

1949

(a) (- - -, & Perry, A.D.) A method of matrix analysis of group structure.Psychometrika, 14, 95-116. Reprinted in P.F. Lazarsfeld & N.W. Henry(Eds.), Readings in Mathematical Social Science. Chicago: Science Re-search Association, 1966. Pp. 111-130.

1950

(a) On semigroups. Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy.

(b) Connectivity and generalized cliques in sociometric group structure. Psy-chometrika, 15, 169-190.

1952

(a) A note on Boolean matrix theory. Proceedings of the American Mathemat-ical Society, 3, 382-388.

(b) Two decomposition theorems for a class of finite oriented graphs. AmericanJournal of Mathematics, 74, 701-722.

(c) (Christie, L.S., - - -, & Macy, J., Jr.) Communication and learning in task-oriented groups. Technical Report 231, Research Laboratory of Electron-ics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1953

(a) (Macy, J. Jr., Christie, L.S., & - - -) Coding noise in task-oriented groups.Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 48, 401-409.

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(b) Networks satisfying minimality conditions. American Journal of Mathe-matics, 75, 825-838.

(c) (- - -, Macy, J., Jr, Chris