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Joe Arvai

Dana and David Dornsife Chair, Wrigley Institute Director and Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Joe Arvai
Pronouns He / Him / His Email arvai@usc.edu

Biography

Dr. Joe Árvai is the Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, and he is the Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. 

Joe’s research focuses on improving the critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making capabilities of people. His research focuses primarily on contexts where people must make judgments and decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty, and where they must confront tradeoffs across conflicting social, economic, and environmental...

Education

  • Ph.D. Judgment and Decision-Making, University of British Columbia, 2001
    • Post-Doctoral Scientist, Decision Research, Eugene, OR, 2001-2002

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, 2020 –
    • Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan, 2015 – 2020
    • Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research, University of Calgary, 2011 – 2015
    • Assistant/Associate Professor, Michigan State University, 2006 – 2010
    • Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, 2001 – 2005

  • Journal Article

    • Siegrist, M., Arvai, J. (2020). Risk Perception: Reflections on 40 Years of Research. Risk Analysis. Vol. In press
    • Arvai, J., Segrè Cohen, A., Love, N. G., Nace, K. K., Árvai, J. (2020). Consumers’ acceptance of agricultural fertilizers derived from diverted and recycled human urine. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 54 (8), pp. 5297-5305.
    • Goto Gray, S., Sütterlin, B., Siegirst, M., Arvai, J. (2020). The benefit of virtue signaling: Corporate sleight-of-hand positively influences consumers’ judgments about “social license to operate”. Journal of Environmental Management. Vol. In press
    • Arvai, J., Drummond, C., Siegrist, M., Árvai, J. (2020). Limited effects of exposure to fake news about climate change. Environmental Research Communications. Vol. 2 (8), pp. 081003.
    • Drummond, C., Gray, S. G., Raimi, K. T., Wilson, R., Arvai, J. (2020). Public perceptions of federal science advisory boards depend on their composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 117 (37), pp. 22668.
    • Bessette, D., Wilson, R., Arvai, J. (2020). Do people disagree with themselves? Exploring the internal consistency of complex, unfamiliar, and risky decisions. Journal of Risk Research. Vol. In press.
    • Arvai, J., Gregory, R. (2020). Beyond choice architecture: A building code for structuring climate risk management decisions. Behavioral Public Policy. Vol. In press.
    • Arvai, J., Gray, S. G., Raimi, K. T., Wilson, R., Drummond, C. (2020). Industry-dominated science advisory boards are perceived to be legitimate…but only when they recommend more stringent risk management policies. Risk Analysis. Vol. In press
    • Arvai, J., Lutzke, L., Drummond, C., Slovic, P., Árvai, J. (2019). Priming critical thinking: Simple interventions limit the influence of fake news about climate change on Facebook. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 58, pp. 101964.
    • Arvai, J., Gray, S. G., Raimi, K. T., Wilson, R., Árvai, J. (2019). Will Millennials save the world? The effect of age and generational differences on environmental concern. Journal of Environmental Management. Vol. 242, pp. 394-402.
    • Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, Society for Risk Analysis, 2020 –
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