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Confidence Assessment/Calibration

 

Drummond Otten, C., & Fischhoff, B. (2023). Calibration of scientific reasoning ability. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(3), e2306  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bdm.2306

 

Canfield, C., Fischhoff, B., & Davis, A.L.  (2019).  Better beware: Comparing metacognition for phishing and legitimate emails. Metacognition and Learning, 14(3), 343-362.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-019-09197-5

 

Bruine de Bruin, A., & Fischhoff, B.  (2017).  Eliciting probabilistic expectations: Collaborations between psychologists and economists.  PNAS, 114(13), 3297-3304. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615461114

 

Bruine de Bruin, W., Parker, A., & Fischhoff, B.  (2007).  Can adolescents predict significant events in their lives?  Journal of Adolescent Health, 41, 208-210. 

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.03.014

 

Bruine de Bruin, W., Fischbeck, P.S., Stiber, N.A., & Fischhoff, B.  (2002).  What number is “fifty-fifty”? Distributing excessive 50% responses in elicited probabilities.  Risk Analysis, 22, 725-735. https://doi.org/10.1111/0272-4332.00063

 

Fischhoff, B., Parker, A., Bruine de Bruin, W., Downs, J., Palmgren, C., Dawes, R.M., & Manski, C.  (2000).  Teen expectations for significant life events.  Public Opinion Quarterly, 64, 189-205. https://doi.org/10.1086/317762

 

Woloshin, S., Schwartz, L.M., Byram, S.J., Fischhoff, B., & Welch, H.G.  (2000). A new scale for assessing perceptions of chance:  A validation study.  Medical Decision Making, 20, 298-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X000200

 

Fischhoff, B., & Bruine de Bruin, W.  (1999).  Fifty/fifty = 50?  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 12, 149-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(199906)12:2<149::AID-BDM314>3.0.CO;2-J

 

Shaklee, H., & Fischhoff, B. (1990).  The psychology of contraceptive surprises: Judging the cumulative risk of contraceptive failure.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20(5), 385-403.  

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1990.tb00418.x

 

Henrion, M. & Fischhoff, B.  (1986).  Assessing uncertainty in physical constants.  American Journal of Physics, 54, 791-798.  https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14447

 

Lichtenstein, S., Fischhoff, B., & Phillips, L.D.  (1982). Calibration of probabilities: State of the art to 1980.  In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (eds.), Judgment under uncertainty:  Heuristics and biases (pp. 306-334).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Koriat, A., Lichtenstein, S. & Fischhoff, B.  (1980).  Reasons for confidence.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.6.2.107

 

Lichtenstein, S. & Fischhoff, B.  (1980).   Training for calibration.  Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 26, 149-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-5073(80)90052-5

 

Fischhoff, B. & Slovic, P.  (1980).  A little learning...:  Confidence in multicue judgment. In R. Nickerson (ed.), Attention and performance, VIII (pp. 779-800).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Lichtenstein, S. & Fischhoff, B.  (1977).  Do those who know more also know more about how much they know?  The calibration of probability judgments.  Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 20, 159-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-5073(77)90001-0

Baruch Fischhoff

Carnegie Mellon University

Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology 

5000 Forbes Ave

Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890

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