Paul Windschitl

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Iowa State University

United States

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Dr. Paul Windschitl is a Professor at the University of Iowa, USA. His research primarily focuses on risk perception, decision making under uncertainty, and the psychological mechanisms influencing optimism and bias in predictions. Recent publications include investigations on survival information formats, the impact of question wording on risk perceptions, and the dynamics of vulnerability perceptions in decision contexts.

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University of Michigan

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Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

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Virginia Military Institute

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Appalachian State University

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Articles (11)

Motivated Interpretations of Survival Rates in Icon Arrays: An Issue of Frequency Format?

Do people desire optimism from others during a novel global crisis?

Eliciting Risk Perceptions: Does Conditional Question Wording Have a Downside?

Which measures of perceived vulnerability predict protective intentions—and when?

People express more bias in their predictions than in their likelihood judgments.

Effect of Presenting Survival Information as Text or Pictograph During Periviable Birth Counseling: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Attributions for ambiguity in a treatment‐decision context can create ambiguity aversion or seeking

The desirability bias in predictions under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty

The effects of tool comparisons when estimating the likelihood of task success

Context dependency in risky decision making: Is there a description-experience gap?

Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?

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Brian Zikmund-Fisher

Jerry Suls

Jillian Stuart

Andrew Smith

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