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42
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9424
World Ranking
7460
National Ranking
4032

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Thomas S. Wallsten is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans key areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology and political science.

Their recent publications include two papers from 2020. The first is titled Numerically Bounded Linguistic Probability Schemes Are Unlikely to Communicate Uncertainty Effectively, published in Earth's Future. The second paper, My Wife's Palliative Care Helped Both of Us, appeared in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. These works address topics related to communication of uncertainty and palliative care, respectively.

Thomas S. Wallsten's research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Family Support in Illness

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • David R. Mandel
  • David V. Budescu

Thomas S. Wallsten has contributed publications in notable venues such as:

  • Earth's Future
  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Their work integrates several subfields of study, notably sociology and political science, general decision sciences, artificial intelligence, and public health, with a focus on environmental and occupational health.

In 1986, Thomas S. Wallsten was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • Simultaneous Over- and Underconfidence: The Role of Error in Judgment Processes.

    Ido Erev;Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu

  • Measuring the Vague Meanings of Probability Terms

    Thomas S. Wallsten;Rami Zwick;Barbara Forsyth;David V. Budescu

  • State of the Art—Encoding Subjective Probabilities: A Psychological and Psychometric Review

    Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu

  • Consistency in interpretation of probabilistic phrases

    David V Budescu;Thomas S Wallsten

  • Individual Decision Behavior

    Amnon Rapoport;Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Decisions based on numerically and verbally expressed uncertainties.

    David V. Budescu;Shalva Weinberg;Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Cognitive processes in choice and decision behavior

    Thomas S Wallsten;Hillel J Einhorn;Ebbe B Ebbesen;Vladimir J Konecni

  • Processing Linguistic Probabilities: General Principles and Empirical Evidence

    David V. Budescu;Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Seeking Subjective Dominance in Multidimensional Space: An Explanation of the Asymmetric Dominance Effect

    Dan Ariely;Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Preferences and reasons for communicating probabilistic information in verbal or numerical terms

    Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu;Rami Zwick;Steven M. Kemp

  • Physician and medical student bias in evaluating diagnostic information.

    Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Modeling behavior in a clinically diagnostic sequential risk-taking task.

    Thomas S. Wallsten;Timothy J. Pleskac;C. W. Lejuez

  • Comparing the calibration and coherence of numerical and verbal probability judgments

    Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu;Rami Zwick

  • Base rate effects on the interpretations of probability and frequency expressions

    Thomas S Wallsten;Samuel Fillenbaum;James A Cox

  • A review of human linguistic probability processing: General principles and empirical evidence

    Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu

  • Evaluating and Combining Subjective Probability Estimates

    Thomas S. Wallsten;David V. Budescu;Ido Erev;Adele Diederich

  • Development of an automatic response mode to improve the clinical utility of sequential risk-taking tasks.

    Timothy J. Pleskac;Thomas S. Wallsten;Paula Wang;C. W. Lejuez

  • The effects of averaging subjective probability estimates between and within judges.

    Dan Ariely;Wing Tung Au;Randall H. Bender;David V. Budescu

  • Processing probabilistic multidimensional information for decisions.

    Thomas S. Wallsten;Curtis Barton

  • On the Importance of Random Error in the Study of Probability Judgment. Part I: New Theoretical Developments

    David V. Budescu;Ido Erev;Thomas S. Wallsten

  • Statement Verification: A Stochastic Model of Judgment and Response.

    Thomas S. Wallsten;Claudia González-Vallejo

Frequent Co-Authors

David V. Budescu
David V. Budescu Fordham University
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Carl W. Lejuez
Carl W. Lejuez Stony Brook University
Thomas W. Britt
Thomas W. Britt Clemson University
Valerie F. Reyna
Valerie F. Reyna Cornell University
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Hal R. Arkes
Hal R. Arkes The Ohio State University
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Craig R. Fox
Craig R. Fox University of California, Los Angeles
Peter A. Ornstein
Peter A. Ornstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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