Wandi Bruine De Bruin

Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Behavioral Science
Wandi Bruine De Bruin

Biography

Wändi Bruine de Bruin is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science with a joint position in Dornsife’s Department of Psychology and in the Price School of Public Policy. At the Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service, she serves as the Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Intiative and the Director of Research for the Center for Civic Society. Her expertise includes the psychology of risk, public perceptions of climate change and health, judgment and decision making, behavioral science, and the psychology of aging. She has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications on these topics, in journals across relevant disciplines.

Wändi is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy for Social Sciences, of the Psychonomic Society, and of the Society for Risk Analysis. She serves as an editorial board member for Perspectives on Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Psychology:Applied, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Decision, Medical Decision Making, the Journal of Risk Research, and Psychology and Aging. She served on the National Academy of Sciences committees on Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers without Respiratory Protection Programs at their Workplaces and Communicating Science Effectively.

Education

  • Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
    • (Spring 2022) PSYC 499. Special Topics – Risk Perception and Communication, T, 03:30pm – 06:50pm
    • (Spring 2024) PSYC 499. Special Topics – Psychology of Risk Communication and Risk Prevention: Promoting Health, Safety, and Sustainability, MW, 02:00pm – 03:50pm
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