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Howard Heinz University Professor, Engineering and Public Policy and Social
and Decision Sciences; Director, Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Risk management, risk communication, human factors, adolescent decision making, and historical judgment.
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 -.
Professor Fischhoff specializes in human judgment and decision making. In his work, he attempts to address simultaneously issues of basic and applied interest. Representative projects include studies of prioritizing risks,
valuing environmental goods, improving adolescent decision making,
preventing sexual assault, communicating about AIDS risks, responses to
risks of terrorism, and assessing the practical value of basic science.
Professor Fischhoff is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the Society for Risk Analysis. He currently serves on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board, where he chairs the Homeland Security Advisory Committee and on the Department of
Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. He has
co-authored or edited four books, Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State
Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Preference
Elicitation (1999), and Risk Communication: The Mental Models Approach
(2001).
Representative Publications
Fischhoff, B., Atran, S., & Fischhoff, N. (2007). Counting casualties: A framework for 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 and Uncertainty. 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 sexual assault, American Psychologist, 47, 577-588.
Fuller references can be found at:
http://sds.hss.cmu.edu/src/faculty/fischhoff.php
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