Paul Slovic
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Paul Slovic (b. 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.[1]
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).[2]
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- Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
- Decision Research profile of Slovic
- Whole Terrain link to Slovic's articles published in Whole Terrain
