Rate My Professor Joseph Radzevick

Joseph R. Radzevick serves as the Siegfried Family Distinguished Professor, Chairperson, and Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Gettysburg College, a position he has held since his promotion in 2017 following his initial appointment as Assistant Professor in 2011. Dr. Radzevick received his BS in Business Administration in 2003, MS in Business Administration in 2006, and PhD in Industrial Administration with specialization in Organizational Behavior and Theory in 2011 from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to Gettysburg College, he served as a Lecturer at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management from 2010 to 2011, where he taught negotiation courses, and as an instructor of undergraduate Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

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.