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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 -.
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 chairs FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and the National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security. 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. (2008). Assessing adolescent decision-making competence. Developmental Review, 28, 12-28.
Fischhoff, B., Atran, S., & Sageman, M. (2008). Mutually Assured Support: A security 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 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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