Baruch Fischhoff (born April 21, 1946, Detroit, Michigan) is an American academic who is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the Institute for Strategy and Technology and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an elected member of the (US) National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine. His research focuses on judgment and decision making, including risk perception and risk Analysis. He has numerous academic books and articles. Fischhoff completed his graduate education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
He has been honored with a 'Distinguished Achievement Award' by the Society for Risk Analysis, a Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology by the American Psychological Association, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and a Doctorate of Humanities, honoris causa, by Lund University. He has chaired committees of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Academy of Sciences, and Environmental Protection Agency. He is a past president of the Society for Risk Analysis and Society for Judgment and Decision Making.He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Society of Experimental Psychologists and Society for Risk Analysis.
William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2021)
BaruchFischhoff (born April 21, 1946, Detroit, Michigan) is an American academic who is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the Institute for Strategy...
of Michigan. His students included Amos Tversky, Robyn Dawes, and BaruchFischhoff, all important researchers in Decision Sciences. The classic text "An...
Thinking, Fast and Slow. London: Penguin Books. pp. 10–14. Slovic, Paul; Fischhoff, Baruch; Lichtenstein, Sarah (1979). "Rating the Risks". Environment. 2 (3):...
numerous times by historians, philosophers, and physicians. In 1973, BaruchFischhoff attended a seminar where Paul E. Meehl stated an observation: clinicians...
ISBN 0471011983.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) BaruchFischhoff (1995). Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged : Twenty Years...
advisor Susan M. Ervin-Tripp Notable students Anat Ninio Avishai Henik BaruchFischhoff Ziv Carmon Nathan Novemsky Maria Stone Daniel Kahneman's voice Recorded...
information, is an important part of empowerment. Nick Pidgeon and BaruchFischhoff say that communicating complex medical or health information to the...
has published extensively on these topics. He is considered, with BaruchFischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein, a leading theorist and researcher in the risk...
Corey James W. Curran Thomas F. Deuel Jack E. Dixon Sue K. Donaldson BaruchFischhoff Kathleen M. Foley Julio Frenk H. Jack Geiger Irma Gigli Florence Pat...
winner), Richard Garwin (Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree), Dr. BaruchFischhoff (Howard Heinz University Professor in the Institute for Politics and...
anticipate the judgement of less-informed agents". Such research drew from BaruchFischhoff's work in 1975 surrounding hindsight bias, a cognitive bias that knowing...
Award 2020 UW Population Health Initiative Award M Granger Morgan; BaruchFischhoff; Ann Bostrom; Cynthia J Atman (1 February 2005). Risk Communication:...
his name in 1950, the year before he died. 2022 - Rena Bizios 2021 - BaruchFischhoff 2020 - Marcetta Y. Darensbourg 2019 - Ben Santer 2018 – Anna Marie...
Hammond 1987-1988 Robyn M. Dawes 1988-1989 Lola L. Lopes 1989-1990 BaruchFischhoff 1990-1991 Robin M. Hogarth 1991-1992 Daniel Kahneman 1992-1993 J. Frank...
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