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The Mind of the Climate Change Skeptic
A multitude of environmental scientists, among others, worry that future generations will look back at the present era as one in which the human race could have — and should have —taken decisive action to Visit Page
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Christopher Olivola
Carnegie Mellon University https://sites.google.com/site/chrisolivola/ What does your research focus on? I am generally interested in (human) judgment and decision making. If I had to narrow it down a bit further, I would say I am Visit Page
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Kurt Gray
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.mpmlab.org What does your research focus on? I study 1) how people perceive the minds of others 2) how people make moral judgments and 3) the link between Visit Page
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Wolfgang Gaissmaier
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Germany www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/wolfgang-gaissmaier What does your research focus on? Broadly speaking, I study how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty. How do people perceive Visit Page
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Multibillion-dollar map of human brain might not be worth it
Los Angeles Times: The Obama administration is reportedly considering funding a multibillion-dollar effort to map the human brain. This so-called Brain Activity Map project is inspired by the success of the Human Genome Project in Visit Page
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Forecasting Fox
The New York Times: In 2006, Philip E. Tetlock published a landmark book called “Expert Political Judgment.” While his findings obviously don’t apply to me, Tetlock demonstrated that pundits and experts are terrible at making Visit Page
