Sentences with phrase «studies human judgment»

Paul Slovic, a founder and President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, studies human judgment, decision making, and risk analysis.

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«If the [brochures] do not adequately describe the studies or do not provide adequate context that would allow the IRBs to make a sound judgment about their significance for human testing, then this is a serious problem,» he says.

The Adult Decision - Making Competence test allows us to characterize the extent to which people are susceptible to specific types of biases that have been studied in the literature on human judgment and decision - making,» Barbey said.

Another study, in the peer - reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, found that software was able to make judgments about students» levels of engagement that were as reliable as those of human observers, and that these video - based engagement scores predicted post-test scores better than pre-test scores could.

«Our findings suggest that children who are taught mindfulness — to pay attention to the present intentionally and without judgment — are better positioned to succeed both in school and in life,» said lead author Kimberly A. Schonert - Reichl, an education professor and interim director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, a collaborative interdisciplinary research network who helped conduct the study.