Howard Heinz University Professor Department of Social and Decision Sciences Department of Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University  Email: baruch@cmu.edu Phone: 412-268-3246 Fax: 412-268-6938 Assistant: Rosa Stipanovic, 412-268-6971, rl1y@andrew.cmu.edu Research Program Dr. Fischhoff studies judgment and decision making, focusing on tasks involving risks to health, safety, and the environment.  He attempts to identify fundamental problems in applied contexts and evaluate basic research results in those settings.  Current application areas include environmental protection, homeland and international security, medical informed consent, avian flu, and sexual behavior.  Current theoretical concerns include scenario planning, resolving uncertain values, uncertainty assessment, priority setting, and behaviorally realistic risk analysis.

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Leadership Positions and Honors Dr. Fischhoff is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and has served on some two dozen NAS/NRC/IOM committees.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and recipient of its Early Career Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology and for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He is President of the Society for Risk Analysis and recipient of its Distinguished Achievement Award.  He has been President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making.  He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee and of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board, where he chairs the subcommittee on homeland security.  He is a member of the World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism Representative Publications  Fischhoff B: What do patients want?  Help in making effective choices.  Effective Clin Pract 2:198-200, 1999. Fischhoff B,  Bostrom A, Quadrel MJ: Risk perception and communication.  In R Detels, J McEwen, R Beaglehole, H Tanaka (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Public Health. London: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 1105-1123. Fischhoff B: Cognitive processes in stated preference methods.  In K-G Mäler, J Vincent (Eds), Handbook of Environmental Economics.  Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 937-968. Fischhoff B: Decision research strategies.  Health Psychol 21:9-16, 2005. Parker A, Fischhoff B: Decision-making competence: External validity through an individual-differences approach.  J Behav Decision Making 18:1-27, 2005.

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