Ellen Peters

Ohio State University - Psychology Department

Associate Professory

Blankenship Hall-2010

901 Woody Hayes Drive

Columbus, OH OH 43210

United States

Decision Research

Research Scientist

1201 Oak Street, Suite 200

Eugene, OR 97401

United States

http://www.decisionresearch.org

University of Oregon

1280 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403

United States

  • Ohio State University - Psychology Department

  • Decision Research

  • University of Oregon

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1.

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government

Behavioural Public Policy, 1, 54-86, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 307
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017
Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Erica Dawson and Paul Slovic
Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Cornell University and Decision Research
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The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change

Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-26, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 89, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 435, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Dan M. Kahan, Maggie Wittlin, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory N. Mandel
Yale University - Law School, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks

Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, pp. 732-735, 2012, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-04, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 464, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 278
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Maggie Wittlin, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory N. Mandel
Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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climate change, cultural cognition, heuristics, science literacy

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Beyond Nudges: Tools of a Choice Architecture

Marketing Letters (2012) Vol 23: pp 487–504, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-739, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-61
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jul 2013
Eric J. Johnson, Suzzane Shu, Benedict G. C. Dellaert, Craig R. Fox, Daniel G. Goldstein, Gerald Haeubl, Richard P. Larrick, John W. Payne, Ellen Peters, David Schkade, Brian Wansink and Elke U. Weber
Columbia Business School - Marketing, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Microsoft Research New York City, Independent, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Marketing, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University and Columbia Business School - Management & Psychology
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Choice architecture, Decision support, Options and alternatives, Describing attributes

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Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts About Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality

Risk Analysis Volume 24, Issue 2, Date: April 2004, Pages: 311-322
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Sep 2006
Paul Slovic, Melissa Finucane, Ellen Peters and Donald G. MacGregor
Decision Research, East-West Center, Ohio State University - Psychology Department and MacGregor-Bates, Inc.
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Rationality, risk analysis, risk perception, the affect heuristic

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Affect, Risk Perception and Future Optimism after the Tsunami Disaster

Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 64-72, January 2008
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Apr 2010
Daniel Västfjäll, Ellen Peters and Paul Slovic
Göteborg University, Ohio State University - Psychology Department and Decision Research
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Affect, Risk Perception, Disaster

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Intuitive Numbers Guide Decisions

Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 3, pp. 619-635, December 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2009
Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll and C. K. Mertz
Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, Göteborg University and Decision Research
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decision making, numerical cognition, numeracy, proportional reasoning, individual differences

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Cultural Cognition and Public Policy: The Case of Outpatient Commitment Laws

Law and Human Behavior, Forthcoming, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 47, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-21
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, John Monahan, Lisa Callahan and Ellen Peters
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Ohio State University - Psychology Department
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cultural cognition, outpatient commitment

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Affect, Risk, and Decision Making

Health Psychology, Vol. 24, pp. S35-S40, 2005
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2012
Paul Slovic, Ellen Peters, Melissa Finucane and Donald G. MacGregor
Decision Research, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, East-West Center and MacGregor-Bates, Inc.
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risk perception, risk analysis, affect heuristic, heuristics, rationality

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Communicating Tobacco Product Information to the Public

Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2017, Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 409
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Micah L. Berman, M. Justin Byron, Natalie Hemmerich, Eric Lindblom, Allison Lazard, Ellen Peters and Noel T. T. Brewer
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Ohio State University (OSU), O'Neill Inst. for National & Global Health Law - Georgetown Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Media and Journalism, Ohio State University - Psychology Department and Gillings School of Global Public Health
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FDA, Tobacco, Public Health

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The Use of Narrative Evidence and Explicit Likelihood by Decision Makers Varying in Numeracy

Risk Analysis, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 1473-1488, 2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2010
Nathan Dieckmann, Paul Slovic and Ellen Peters
Decision Research, Decision Research and Ohio State University - Psychology Department
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Numeracy, forecasting, risk perception, risk communication, intelligence analysis

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Affective Asynchrony and the Measurement of the Affective Attitude Component

Cognition and Emotion, Vol. 21, pp. 300-329, 2007
Posted: 03 Nov 2010
Ellen Peters and Paul Slovic
Ohio State University - Psychology Department and Decision Research

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affect, attitude, dual processes, emotion, measurement

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The Affect Heuristic and the Attractiveness of Simple Gambles

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 20, pp. 365-380, 2007
Posted: 22 Jul 2010
Ian J. Bateman, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Chris Starmer and Sam Dent
University of East Anglia (UEA) - School of Economic and Social Studies, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, University of Nottingham - School of Economics and University of East Anglia (UEA)

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affect heuristic, preference construction, evaluability, gambles

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Imagery, Affect, and Decision Making

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Paul Slovic, Donald G. MacGregor and Ellen Peters
Decision Research, MacGregor-Bates, Inc. and Ohio State University - Psychology Department

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Risk Perception and Affect

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 322-325, 2006
Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Paul Slovic and Ellen Peters
Decision Research and Ohio State University - Psychology Department

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risk perception, risk analysis, the affect heuristic

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Graph Comprehension: An Experiment in Displaying Data as Bar Charts, Pie Charts and Tables With and Without the Gratuitous 3rd Dimension

RAND Working Paper Series No. WR- 618
Posted: 24 Sep 2008
Matthias Schonlau and Ellen Peters
University of Waterloo and Ohio State University - Psychology Department

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