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110
Citations
85200
World Ranking
386
National Ranking
246

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Baruch Fischhoff is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, focusing primarily on medicine with particular expertise in emergency medicine, sociology and political science, general health professions, family practice, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research is reflected in a diverse range of topics including decision-making and behavioral economics, emergency and acute care studies, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, misinformation and its impacts, climate change communication and perception, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, and palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Jonathan Elmer, Tamar Krishnamurti, Alexis Steinberg, Deepika Mohan, and Douglas B. White.

Key publication venues where Fischhoff has contributed multiple works include JAMA Network Open, Resuscitation, Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Risk Analysis, and the Journal of Perinatology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Fischhoff are:

  • Making Decisions in a COVID-19 World, 2020, JAMA
  • Decision-Making Competence: More Than Intelligence?, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Risk perceptions and health behaviors as COVID-19 emerged in the United States: Results from a probability-based nationally representative sample., 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • Assessing How Consumers Interpret and Act on Results From At-Home COVID-19 Self-test Kits, 2022, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Making behavioral science integral to climate science and action, 2020, Behavioural Public Policy

Throughout their career, Fischhoff has received several recognitions including being named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2018, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, fellowship of the American Psychological Association in 2002, and membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 1993.

Best Publications

  • The psychometric study of risk perception

    Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory

    Sarah Lichtenstein;Baruch Fischhoff

  • HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH? A PSYCHOMETRIC STUDY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS AND BENEFITS

    Baruch Fischhoff;Paul Slovic;Sarah Lichtenstein;Stephen Read

  • Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty.

    Baruch Fischhoff

  • Calibration of probabilities: the state of the art to 1980

    Sarah Lichtenstein;Baruch Fischhoff;Lawrence D. Phillips

  • Behavioral Decision Theory

    Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • Judged frequency of lethal events

    Sarah Lichtenstein;Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Mark Layman

  • Knowing with Certainty: The Appropriateness of Extreme Confidence.

    Baruch Fischhoff;Paul Slovic;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • Reasons for confidence.

    Asher Koriat;Sarah Lichtenstein;Baruch Fischhoff

  • Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach

    M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Ann Bostrom;Cynthia J. Atman

  • Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism A National Field Experiment

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Roxana M. Gonzalez;Deborah A. Small;Baruch Fischhoff

  • Risk perception and communication unplugged: twenty years of process.

    Baruch Fischhoff

  • Rating the Risks

    Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • Do Those Who Know More Also Know More about How Much They Know

    Sarah Lichtenstein;Baruch Fischhoff

  • Individual differences in adult decision-making competence.

    Wändi Bruine de Bruin;Andrew M. Parker;Baruch Fischhoff

  • Hindsight/Foresight: The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment Under Uncertainty

    Baruch Fischhoff

  • I knew it would happen: Remembered probabilities of once—future things

    Baruch Fischhoff;Ruth Beyth

  • Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk

    Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • Why Study Risk Perception

    Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

  • What Do People Know About Global Climate Change? 1. Mental Models

    Ann Bostrom;M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Daniel Read

  • Clinical Decision Analysis

    Baruch Fischhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Wändi Bruine de Bruin University of Southern California
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
Jennifer S. Lerner
Jennifer S. Lerner Harvard University
Deborah A. Small
Deborah A. Small University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Asher Koriat
Asher Koriat University of Haifa
Ola Svenson
Ola Svenson Stockholm University
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher Stanford University
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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