Baruch Fischhoff
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Baruch (Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University) Fischhoff
Baruch (Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon Institute for St
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Baruch Fischhoff
Risk Analysis and Human Behavior
The articles collected here are foundational contributions to integrating behavioural research and risk analysis. They include seminal articles on three essential challenges.
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Judgment and Decision Making
Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science).
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Taylor B. Seybolt
Jay D. Aronson
Baruch Fischhoff
Counting Civilian Casualties
A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier.
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Sarah Lichtenstein
Paul Slovic
Steven L. Derby
Ralph Keeney
Acceptable Risk
The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine 'how safe is safe enough?'. The authors begin by defining acceptable-risk problems and analysing why they are so difficult to resolve, considering such issues as uncertainty about their definition, lack of relevant facts, conflicting and conflicted social values, and disagreements between technical experts and the lay public.
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Baruch (Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University) Fischhoff
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John (Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy) Kadvany
John Kadvany
Risk
We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery.
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