Rate My Professor Joseph Radzevick

Dr. Radzevick's research focuses on behavioral decision making, investigating how individuals acquire and process information in competitive environments and the implications for individuals, groups, and organizations. His specific areas of interest include overconfidence, comparative judgment, and trust. His scholarly contributions include the award-winning article "Does Transition Experience Improve Newcomer Performance? Evidence From the National Basketball Association" published in Small Group Research in 2016, which earned the journal's Best Article Award for that year. Other key publications are "Competing to be Certain (but Wrong): Market Dynamics and Excessive Confidence in Judgment" in Management Science (2011), "Just How Comparative Are Comparative Judgments?" in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2013), "Whom Do You Distrust and How Much Does it Cost? An Experiment on the Measurement of Trust" in Games and Economic Behavior (2012), "Rumination and Performance in Dynamic, Team Sport" in Frontiers in Psychology (2016), and "The Manifestation of Stress and Rumination in Musicians" in Muziki (2016). In his teaching at Gettysburg College, he offers courses such as Organizational Behavior (OMS 270), Research Methods (OMS 301), Decision Making (OMS 304), Negotiation and Conflict Management (OMS 335), and Advanced Topics in Organizations and Society (OMS 400). He has advised dozens of management majors, sponsored student internships, and contributed to faculty development workshops.