Professor Thomas Kida

Thomas Kida
 

Professor of Accounting


Telephone: 413-545-5650

Email: tkida@isenberg.umass.edu

Office: Isenberg 220C

 

 


Education:

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1978
M.S.B.A., University of Massachusetts, 1974
B.S.B.A., Western New England College, 1973

Research/Teaching Interests:

Behavior decision theory

Decision heuristics & biases

Memory & encoding issues

Risky decision making and hypothesis testing strategies

Critical thinking & decision making

Behavioral research in accounting and financial accounting


 

Selected Publications:

 

"Investment Decision Making: Do Experienced Decision Makers Fall Prey to the Paradox of Choice?" with Kimberly Moreno and James Smith, Journal of Behavioral Finance, forthcoming, 2008.

 

"A Comparison of Auditor and Client Initial Negotiation Positions and Tactics," with Charles Bame-Aldred, Accounting, Organizations and Society, August, 2007, pp. 497-511.

 

"Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking." Prometheus Books, 2006.

With Christopher Agoglia and Dennis Hanno. "The Effects of Alternative Justification Memos on the Judgments of Audit Reviewees and Reviewers." Journal of Accounting Research (March 2003): 33-46.

With Kimberly Moreno and James Smith. "The Impact of Affective Reactions on Risky Decision Making in Accounting Contexts." Journal of Accounting Research (December 2002): 1331-1350.

With Kimberly Moreno and James Smith. "The Influence of Affect on Accounting Decision Making." Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 2001): 477-494.

With Sudip Bhattacharjee and Dennis Hanno. "The Impact of Hypothesis Set Size on the Time Efficiency and Accuracy of Analytical Review Judgments." Journal of Accounting Research (Spring 1999): 83-100.

With James Smith and Mario Maletta. "The Effects of Encoded Memory Traces for Numerical Data on Accounting Decision Making." Accounting, Organizations and Society (July 1998): 451-466.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Reviewer for The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Literature, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and The National Science Foundation.