Books
Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems (Oxford University Press, 2005)
A proposal for reorganizing the research enterprise by strengthening ties between disciplinary science and multidisciplinary applications
Decisions (MIT Press, forthcoming)
A personal intellectual history of behavioral decision research, with a wide range or topics, applications, and collaborators
Risk: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
A very short account of how risks are defined, estimated, weighed, and managed, considering the psychology of experts and non-experts.
Acceptable Risk (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
An account of different ways to make decisions about acceptable risks (and acceptable benefits). Originally, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report (NUREG-1614).
Two-State Solution (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993)
Papers and discussions from a conference involving prominent Palestinian, Israeli, and American figures.
Risk Communication: A Mental Models (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
A practical guide to providing the information that people need to make practical personal and policy decisions, with many examples.
National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Science of Science Communication I (PNAS 2013))
A collection of essays, applying different disciplinary perspectives to communicating authoritative, comprehensible, and useful scientific information.
National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Science of Science Communication II (PNAS, 2014)
A collection of essays, applying different disciplinary perspectives to communicating authoritative, comprehensible, and useful scientific information.
National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Science of Science Communication III (PNAS 2019)
A collection of essays, applying different disciplinary perspectives to communicating authoritative, comprehensible, and useful scientific information.
Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based Users Guide (Food and Drug Administration, 2011)
An introduction to the science, design, evaluation, and dissemination of health-related communications, written by members and staff of the FDA Risk Communication Advisory Committee.
Counting civilian casualties: An introduction to recording and estimating nonmilitary deaths in conflicts (Oxford University Press, 2013)
A collection or original articles describing alternative imperfect methods for counting individual casualties and estimating their number, written for non-experts.
Judgment and Decision Making (Taylor & Francis/Routledge Earthscan, 2012)
A collection of original empirical articles on foundational topics in judgment, preference assessment, choice, and hindsight.
Risk Analysis and Human Behavior (Taylor & Francis/Routledge Earthscan, 2012)
A collection of original empirical studies applying behavioral decision research to analyzing, evaluating, and choosing among risks.