Paul Slovic

Paul Slovic

Paul Slovic (born 1938) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of the Decision Research group. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1964. [ [http://www.uoregon.edu/~uocomm/experts/faculty-data/Slovic+_Paul.html University of Oregon web page] ]

Slovic has studied psychological heuristics with frequent coauthors Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich, and first theorized the affect heuristic. He is considered, with Baruch Fischhoff, a leading theorist and researcher in the risk perception field (psychometric paradigm). [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9232014&dopt=AbstractPlus Abstract Plus] ]

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External links

* [http://www.decisionresearch.org/pdf/paul_vita.pdf Curriculum Vitae (PDF)]
* [http://www.decisionresearch.org/About/People/slovic.html Decision Research] profile of Slovic
* [http://www.wholeterrain.org/bio.cfm?Contributor_ID=308 Whole Terrain] link to Slovic's articles published in Whole Terrain


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