2026 Paul Slovic: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	166	983	903	583	524	550	208456
Psychology	155	64	55	36	29	447	191110

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1982 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Paul Slovic is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and has contributed extensively to social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, economics, econometrics, and decision sciences. Their research spans multiple topics including the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, misinformation and its impacts, risk perception and management, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, decision-making and behavioral economics, as well as health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Slovic's recent published papers include:

"Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
"Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
"The Affect Heuristic and Risk Perception - Stability Across Elicitation Methods and Individual Cognitive Abilities" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
"Political partisanship and mobility restriction during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, Public Health)
"Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior" (2020, Judgment and Decision Making)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

Daniel Västfjäll
Stephan Dickert
Marcus Mayorga
David M. Markowitz
Tehila Kogut

Slovic's work is regularly published in a number of academic venues, such as:

Risk Analysis
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Forecasting
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Judgment and Decision Making

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes a range of fellowships and awards:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology by the American Psychological Association (1993)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1986)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984)
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (1982)

Best Publications

Perception of risk.

Paul Slovic

13433
Citations
Judgment under uncertainty: List of contributors

Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

9463
Citations
Judgment under uncertainty: Causality and attribution

Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

9463
Citations
The psychometric study of risk perception

Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

8577
Citations
Perception of Risk Posed by Extreme Events

Paul Slovic;Elke U. Weber

7954
Citations
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

Glenn R. Shafer;Daniel Kahnerman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

6078
Citations
Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality

Paul Slovic;Melissa L. Finucane;Ellen Peters;Donald G. MacGregor

5119
Citations
The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework

Roger E. Kasperson;Ortwin Renn;Paul Slovic;Halina S. Brown

5018
Citations
Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Elizabeth C. Hirschman;Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

4710
Citations
HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH? A PSYCHOMETRIC STUDY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS AND BENEFITS

Baruch Fischhoff;Paul Slovic;Sarah Lichtenstein;Stephen Read

4209
Citations
The affect heuristic

Paul Slovic;Melissa L. Finucane;Ellen Peters;Donald G. MacGregor

4196
Citations
The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits

Melissa L. Finucane;Ali Alhakami;Paul Slovic;Stephen M. Johnson

4095
Citations
The Perception of Risk

Paul Slovic

3382
Citations
Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk‐Assessment Battlefield

Paul Slovic

3183
Citations
Judgment under Uncertainty

Daniel Kahneman;Paul Slovic;Amos Tversky

3092
Citations
The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

Dan M. Kahan;Ellen Peters;Maggie Wittlin;Paul Slovic

3020
Citations
Comparison of Bayesian and Regression Approaches to the Study of Information Processing in Judgment.

Paul Slovic;Sarah Lichtenstein

2840
Citations
Behavioral Decision Theory

Paul Slovic;Baruch Fischhoff;Sarah Lichtenstein

2512
Citations
Reversals of preference between bids and choices in gambling decisions.

Sarah Lichtenstein;Paul Slovic

2477
Citations
Contingent weighting in judgment and choice

Amos Tversky;Shmuel Sattath;Paul Slovic

2375
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Peters University of Oregon

Sarah Lichtenstein Oregon Research Institute

Daniel Västfjäll Linköping University

Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University

C. K. Mertz University of Oregon

Howard Kunreuther University of Pennsylvania

Dan M. Kahan Yale University

Robin Gregory University of British Columbia

Amos Tversky Stanford University

John Gastil Pennsylvania State University

External Links

Personal website of Paul Slovic

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