The president and some of the executive board are chosen by approval voting.
The society was founded in 1980 by James Shanteau, Charles Gettys, and others, as a way of bringing together researchers who study human judgments and decisions from different perspectives.
Past presidents include: The annual conference has been held every year in conjunction with the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, now overlapping by two days, in mid-November.
The SJDM annual meeting for 2024 is scheduled to occur in New York City.
It also publishes an open-access online journal called Judgment and Decision Making, as of July 2007.