FALL 2005

Jennifer Lerner has appeared on Good Morning America and received news coverage in papers around the world (e.g., Pravda, The Toronto Star, China Daily) to discuss the positive health effects of anger [more]

A secondary report of research by Jennifer Lerner's Emotion and Decision Making Lab has been covered in Science, Volume 310, Issue of 25 November 2005.

Baruch Fischhoff has been President of the Society for Risk Analysis, member of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board (and chair of its Subcommittee on Homeland Security).

SPRING 2005

The American Psychological Society has presented Robyn Dawes, the Charles J. Queenan Jr. University Professor of Psychology in SDS, with a Festschrift, a collection of essays related to his work [more]

Carnegie Mellon now has a Center for Behavioral Decision Research, founded to help support and promote research on decision making [more]

Wandi Bruine de Bruin has received worldwide media attention for her research on order effects in judgment, after an interview with Nature Online [more]

FALL 2004

Jenn Lerner received the National Science Foundation's Early Presidential Career Award for Scientists and Engineers [more].

Carnegie Mellon's Ph.D. program in Decision Science received top honors from the Decision Analysis Society, which is part of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the field's leading professional and scientific organization [more].