EPP Faculty :: Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff | |
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Howard Heinz University Professor; Professor, Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy
Risk management, risk communication, security, health, adolescence, and environment.
B.Sc. (Mathematics, Psychology) 1967, Wayne State University M.A. (Psychology) 1972 and Ph.D. (Psychology) 1975, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Carnegie Mellon, 1987 -.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF, Ph.D., is Howard Heinz University Professor, in theDepartments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy atCarnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from WayneState University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ofSciences. He chairs the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication AdvisoryCommittee and the National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and SocialScience Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security. He is pastPresident of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and of the Society for RiskAnalysis. He was a member of the Eugene, Oregon Commission on the Rights of Women,the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, andthe Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired theHomeland Security Advisory Committee. He has co-authored or edited seven books,Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects andPossibilities (1993), Preference Elicitation (1999), Risk Communication: The Mental ModelsApproach (2001), Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Science Foundations (2011),Risk: A Very Short Introduction (2011), and Communicating Risks and Benefits: AnEvidence-Based User’s Guide (2011).
Representative Publications
Fischhoff, B., Brewer, N., & Downs, J.S. (eds.). (2011). Communicating risksand benefits: An evidence-based user’s guide. Washington, DC: USFDA. http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/Reports/ucm268078.htm
Fischhoff, B., & Chauvin, C. (eds.). (2011). Intelligence analysis: Behavioral andsocial science foundations. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13062
Fischhoff, B., & Kadvany, J. (2011). Risk: A very short introduction. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Fischhoff, B. (2008). Assessing adolescent decision-making competence.Developmental Review, 28, 12-28.
Fischhoff, B., Atran, S., & Sageman, M. (2008). Mutually Assured Support: Asecurity doctrine for terrorist nuclear weapon threats. In R. Clarke (ed.),Terrorism Briefing for the New President, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 618, 160-167.
Fischhoff, B., Atran, S., & Fischhoff, N. (2007). Counting casualties: A frameworkfor respectful, useful records. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34, 1-19.
Fischhoff, B., Bruine de Bruin, W., Guvenc, U., Caruso, D., & Brilliant, L. (2006).Analyzing disaster risks and plans: An avian flu example. Journal of Risk andUncertainty. 33, 133-151.
Fischhoff, B. (2005). Cognitive issues in stated preference methods. In K-G.M=E4ler & J. Vincent (Eds.), Handbook of Environmental Economics.Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Fischhoff, B. (1992). Giving advice: Decision theory perspectives on sexualassault, American Psychologist, 47, 577-588.
Fuller references can be found at: http://sds.hss.cmu.edu/src/faculty/fischhoff.php
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