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Baruch Fischhoff
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 452
Citations - 53546
Baruch Fischhoff is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk perception & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 97, co-authored 440 publications receiving 50968 citations. Previous affiliations of Baruch Fischhoff include Wright Institute & Oregon Research Institute.
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
TL;DR: The authors investigated the possibility that assessment of confidence is biased by attempts to justify one's chosen answer and disregarding evidence contradicting it, and found that only the listing of contradicting reasons improved the appropriateness of confidence.
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How safe is safe enough? a psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated an alternative technique, in which psychometric procedures were used to elicit quantitative judgments of perceived risk, acceptable risk, and perceived benefit for each of 30 activities and technologies.
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Calibration of probabilities: the state of the art to 1980
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature concerning calibration of probabilistic assessments is presented, where the authors identify two kinds of "goodness" in probability assessments: normative goodness, which reflects the degree to which assessments express the assessor's true beliefs and conform to the axioms of probability theory, and substantive goodness, reflecting the amount of knowledge of the topic area contained in the assessments.
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Behavioral Decision Theory
TL;DR: This article surveys the entire field asking, what is known, what good is it, and what else must we learn from it, focusing on work integrating research describing how people do make decisions with normative work that prescribes how people should make decisions.