Things I’ve Learned from Paul
Baruch Fischhoff
Celebration of Paul Slovic
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
November 20, 2016
Realism Matters
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American Economic Review, 1983, 73, 596-605
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Comprehensiveness Matters
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Important Papers
Can Be Both Seminal and Terminal
Important Papers
Can Be Both Seminal and Terminal
It’s hard to extinguish one behavior without
reinforcing a substitute.
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Behavioral Science, 1974, 19, 368-373
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Journals That Are No More
Behavioral Science
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human
Performance
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Commitment Matters
Commitment Matters
Communicating Science:
telling our stories
Science Communication
aiding their decisions
Asilomar Conference Center
They've done all they could, given the literature
available. In so doing, they have not only served a
generation of graduate students preparing for a
prelim on cognitive processes; they have also set
the rest of us a task. We should not only talk, but
talk effectively…
Well that, should be enough to fill Jim Naylor's
pages and insult my friends… It only remains for
me to wonder why you have bothered to work your
way through these pages, instead of proceeding at
once to the feast that starts on the next page.
Onward.
Edwards, 1971, p. 647