Paul Slovic (born 1938 in Chicago) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of the Decision Research group. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1964.
Slovic has studied psychological heuristics with frequent coauthors Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich, and first theorized the affect heuristic. He is considered, with Baruch Fischhoff, a leading theorist and researcher in the risk perception field (psychometric paradigm).
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