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

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 Susan Golombok FBA

Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy

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Professor Robert Plomin FBA

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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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