Author: Ellen Peters

Ellen Peters, Ph.D. is a decision psychologist and author of Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers with Oxford University Press. She is the Philip H. Knight Chair and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. She studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS’s Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

Why Social Science? Leaders Need to Know How to Lead with Evidence
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May 26, 2021

Why Social Science? Leaders Need to Know How to Lead with Evidence

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