Research group Risk analysis, social and decision research
Most research themes covered by the Risk Analysis, Social and Decision Research Research Group are related to cognitive, psychological and organizational approaches to human judgements and decision making.
Group description
The research efforts of the group cover the following areas with names of participating researchers from the Department of Psychology in parentheses. The members also work together with Swedish and international researchers from the universities in Lund, Göteborg and Umeå and from Decision Research, Oregon USA.
- Human decision making processes before and after a decision (Svenson, Salo)
- Post decision processes, social influence and biased judgments (Lindholm, Svenson, students)
- Interval scaling and point estimates: Accuracy and uncertainty (Gonzalez, Mats Nilsson, Svenson, Bengt Krisström, SLU Umeå, Magnus Ekström UMU, Umeå)
- Behavioral economics (Gonzalez, Svenson)
- Decision making in big organizations (Salo)
- Traffic psychology: Perceptual and mental models of, time saving, braking and fuel consumption (Svenson, Gonzalez, Salo)
- Judgments of resources growing and decreasing over time and compound interest rates (Gonzalez)
- Psychological measures: Spectral analysis of judgment distributions in search of different response processes (Svenson, Gonzalez)
- Behavioral medicine: Airborne virus exposure, risk perception and behavior (Svenson, Gonzalez, Lindholm)
Group members
Group managers
Ola Svenson
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Members
Ilkka Salo
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Lund University
