Baruch Fischhoff

Dr. Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the Society for Risk Analysis, which honored him with its Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr. Fischhoff is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and of the American Psychological Association and recipient of the latter’s Early Career Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology and for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. His research includes risk communication, analysis, and management; adolescent decision making; informed consent; security; and environmental protection. He has co-authored or edited four books: Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Preference Elicitation (1999), and Risk Communication: The Mental Models Approach (2001).