Basic Research
Heuristics
Publications
668 Svenson, O., & Salo, I. (2010). Effects of speed limit variation on judged mean speed of a trip. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42, 704–708. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2009.10.019
622 Weller, J. A., & Watson, D. (2009). Friend or foe? Differential use of the self-based heurisitic as a function of relationship satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 77, 731-760.
640 Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Slovic, P., Gastil, J., & Cohen, G. (2008). Cultural cognition of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology. Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 87–90.
627 Wilson, R., Arvai, J., & Arkes, H. (2008). My loss is your loss…sometimes: Loss aversion and the effect of motivational biases. Risk Analysis, 28(4), 929-938.
575 Bateman, I., Dent, S., Peters, E., Slovic, P., & Starmer, C. (2007). The affect heuristic and the attractiveness of simple gambles. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 365-380.
564 Peters, E., McCaul, K. D., Stefanek, M., & Nelson, W. (2006). A heuristics approach to understanding cancer risk perception: Contributions from judgment and decision-making research. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 45-52.
538 Slovic, P., Peters, E., Finucane, M. L., & MacGregor, D. G. (2005). Affect, risk, and decision making. Health Psychology, 24, S35-S40
491 Gregory, R. S. (2004). Valuing risk management choices. In T. McDaniels & M. J. Small (Eds.), Risk analysis and society: An interdisciplinary characterization of the field (pp. 213-250). New York: Cambridge University Press.
519 Slovic, P. (2004). What's fear got to do with it? It's affect we need to worry about. Missouri Law Review, 69, 971-990.
502 Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2004). Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: Some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality. Risk Analysis, 24(2), 1-12. (Download the December 2002 paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, New Orleans, LA. Download; 922K, PDF)
498 Slovic, P., Finucane, M. L., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2002). Rational actors or rational fools? Implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics. Journal of Socio-Economics, 31, 329-342. Download a later, revised version of this article (1.2MB, PDF)
454 Slovic, P., Finucane, M., Peters, E., & MacGregor, D. G. (2002). The affect heuristic. In T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment (pp. 397-420). New York: Cambridge University Press.
476 Slovic, P. (2001). Psychological study of human judgment: Implications for investment decision making. The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, 2, 160-172.
416 Finucane, M. L., Alhakami, A., Slovic, P., & Johnson, S. M. (2000). The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, 1-17.
384 Olsen, R. A. (1997). Desirability bias among professional investment managers: Some evidence from experts. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 10, 65-72.
216 Fischhoff, B. (1985). Prejudices about bias (Report No. 85-3). Eugene, OR: Decision Research.
150 Fischhoff, B. (1982). Debiasing. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases (pp. 422-444). New York: Cambridge University Press.
51 Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.
43 Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognitive Psychology, 5, 207-232.