O4SR SkeptiCamp 2022  -  Paul Slovic
Channel: O4SR
Date: 2022-08-22

Paul Slovic - The More Who Die, The Less We Care
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Paul Slovic Ph.D. is a founder and President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He studies human judgment, decision making, and risk analysis. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. In 1993, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. In 1995, he received the Outstanding Contribution to Science Award from the Oregon Academy of Science. He has received honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics (1996) and the University of East Anglia (2005) . Slovic was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and the National Academy of Science in 2016. In 2022, Slovic received the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in the Science of Decision Making.

Video and editing by Susan Gerbic