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Professor Gerd Gigerenzer FBA

Decision-making under uncertainty; ecological rationality of heuristics; the intelligence of intuition; statistical thinking in health care; risk communication and risk literacy
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology
Website
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/gerd-gigerenzer

Current post

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Director Emeritus

Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam Director

European Research Council (ERC) Vice-President

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Professor Andrew Steptoe FBA

Social and psychological factors related to physical health outcomes; epidemiology of ageing, cardiovascular disease, and dementia; health psychology and positive wellbeing

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Professor Charles Nelson III FBA

Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities

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Professor Bencie Woll FBA

Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.

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