Michael H. Birnbaum

Michael H. Birnbaum is a Professor at the California State University, Fullerton, Department of Psychology, specializing in judgment and decision making, psychophysical and social judgment, and mathematical models of behavior. He directs the Decision Research Center and has held leadership roles in multiple societies, including the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and Society for Computers in Psychology.

Research Interests

• Violation of stochastic dominance
• Transitivity and independence properties
• Prospect theory and cumulative prospect theory
• Branch-splitting independence
• Gain-loss separability

Recent Publications focus on testing critical properties of decision models, including priority dominance, lexicographic semiorders, and response variability. His work includes experiments on risk assessment, mixed gambles, and Internet-based behavioral research.

Scientific Awards:

• 1991: Outstanding Professor, CSUF
• 2014: L. Donald Shields Award for Scholarship and Creativity

Grants include multiple NSF awards (SBR-9410572, SES-9986436, BCS-0129453, SES-0202448). He has developed online decision calculators and experimental programs for public participation.