
Recent Research
Selected articles reporting empirical research
For a fuller list please see my university website.
2025
Fischhoff, B. (2025). Fifty years of hindsight bias research. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(2),143-150. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001232
Krishnamurti, T., White, G., Dewitt, B., Mosley, E., & Fischhoff, B. (2025). Public understanding of the risks and benefits of Mifepristone: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829916
2024
Dunning, R., Fischhoff, B., & Davis, A.L. (2024). When do humans heed AI agents’ advice? When should they? Human Factors. 66(7), 1914-1927. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208231190459
Fischhoff, B. (2024). Heuristic assumptions. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. (special issue tribute to Daniel Kahneman). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-024-09437-3
Kenny, R., Fischhoff, B., Davis, A., & Canfield, C. (2024). Improving social bot detection through aid and training. Human Factors, 66(10), 2323-2344. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208231210145
2023
Grayek, E., Krishnamurti, T., Davis, A.L., Hu, L., Babich, O., Warren, K., & Fischhoff, B. (2023). Collection and analysis of adherence information for software-as-a-medical-device clinical trials: A systematic review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11:e46237. https://mhealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e46237
Kleeman, H., Fischhoff, B., & Armanios, D.E. (2023). Effects of redesigning the communication of low-income residential energy efficiency programs in the U.S. Energy Policy, 178, 113568.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113568
Rodriguez, V.L., Fischhoff, B., & Davis, A.L. (2023). Risk heatmaps as visual displays:
Opening movie studios after the COVID-19 shutdown. Risk Analysis, 43, 1356-1369. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/risa.14017
Woloshin, S., Yang, Y., & Fischhoff, B. (2023). Communicating health information with visual displays. Nature Medicine, 29, 1085-1091. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02328-1
2021
Fischhoff, B. (2021). Making behavioral science integral to climate science and action. Behavioural Public Policy, 5(4) 439-453. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.38
Grayek, E., Yang, Y., Fischhoff, B., Schifferdecker, K.E., Woloshin, S., Kerlikowski, K., Miglioretti, D., & Tosteson, A. (2022). A procedure for eliciting women’s preferences for breast cancer screening frequency. Medical Decision Making, 42(6), 783-794. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X211073
Haward, M.F., Lorenz, J.M., Janvier, A., & Fischhoff, B. (2021). Bereaved parents’ insights for the antenatal consultation. American Journal of Perinatology. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1731651
Mohan, D., Chang, C.-C., Fischhoff, B., Rosengart, M.R., Angus, D.C., Yealy, D.M., & Barnato, A.E. (2021). Outcome of a digital behavioral intervention to improve trauma triage: analysis of Medicare claims. Journal of Surgical Research, 268, 532-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.07.029
Woloshin, S., Dewitt, B., Krishnamurti, T., & Fischhoff, B. (2022). Assessing how consumers interpret and act on results from at-home COVID-19 self-test kits: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 182(3), 332-341. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2788656
2020
Fischhoff, B., & Broomell, S.B. (2020). Judgment and decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 71. 331-355. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050747
http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/KXBRW9TWBZZ9X2TFHJJY/full/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050747
2019
Yu, M., Krishnamurti, T., & Fischhoff, B. (2019). Implementing a new Common Rule requirement for informed consent: A randomized trial on adult asthma patients. Medical Decision Making Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/2381468319839315
2018
Mohan, D., Fischhoff, B., Angus, D.C., Rosengart, M.R., Wallace, D.J., Yealy, D.M., Farris, C., Chang, C.-C.H., Kerti, S., & Barnato, A.E. (2018). Serious video games may improve physicians’ heuristics in trauma triage. PNAS, 115(37), 9204-9209. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1805450115
Parker, A.M., Bruine de Bruin, W., Fischhoff, B., & Weller, J. (2018). Robustness of decision-making competence: Evidence from two measures and an 11-year longitudinal study. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 380-391. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2059
2017
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
Fischhoff, B. (2017). Breaking ground for psychological science: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration. American Psychologist, 72(2). 118-125. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040438