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Building upon work in cognitive science, social psychology, and neuroscience, our researchers develop, test, and apply affect-based theories of judgment and decision making.
Our research is aimed at developing a deeper understanding of aeronautical decision making and developing enhanced aviation training and decision-support tools.
Our research explores psychological barriers to compassion such as psychic numbing and pseudoinefficacy and seeks to develop ways to mitigate their harmful consequences.
What political, cultural, geographic, psychological and other factors drive environmental perception and behavior and how can we develop methods to help individuals and organizations make better decisions about environmental management?
We examine the psychological causes of genocide and suggest designs for legal and institutional mechanisms that will enforce proper responses to genocide and other forms of mass murder.
Since the 1960s researchers at Decision Research have been conducting research designed to reveal the cognitive and affective mechanisms that are utilized in human decision making.
How do individuals and organizations “perceive” natural, technological, and social hazards? How can their communications be improved to enhance their decision making, and how can their behavior achieve the best tradeoffs?
Our research is aimed at investigating the problems associated with risk assessment and developing techniques for overcoming them.
Our psychological studies have implications for concrete steps that can be taken to reduce what are unacceptable risks to humanity.
With the support of administrators and teachers we have been exploring the possibilities for systemic changes in students’ individual and collective choice-making skills.
We study the social amplification of risk from terrorism and devise methods for estimating the effects and combating them.
Our research focuses on understanding drivers’ risky decisions and behavior, such as speeding, driving too close to the vehicle in front, texting, and other distracting activities.
A new computerized approach for conducting risk assessments developed at Decision Research with support from NASA. It is designed to provide a flexible approach to practical risk assessment with wide applications in government, industry, and business that avoids many of the pitfalls of the common informal approaches.