Elke U. Weber

Elke U. Weber

Elke U. Weber (born April 6, 1957 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German-Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University .

Life

Elke Weber studied psychology at York University and then received her PhD in psychology from Harvard University in 1984 . She then began her work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 1988 to 1995 she was at the Chair of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago . In 1995 she moved to Ohio State University as a professor of quantitative psychology . She then moved to Columbia University in 1999, where she held several professorships, including the Jerome A. Chazen Chair and the Chair of Cognitive Psychology. Before coming to Princeton in 2016, she spent 19 years at Columbia University . At Columbia University, she founded the Earth Institute's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions and the Center for Decision Sciences. Since 2016 she has held the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professorship for Energy and Environment and the Professorship for Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

research

Weber deals with psychological processes in decision-making with a focus on decision-making in situations with risk and uncertainty. She has hypothesized that decisions about risk are based on feelings and are not made by objectively weighing possible alternatives. She also examines which individual and cultural factors influence the willingness to take risks , but also the risk perception .

One of Weber's research focuses is the perception of long-term risks, such as the perception of climate change .

Awards

• 2020 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2016 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award, Society for Risk Analysis
• 2015 Fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychology
• 2014 “In Honor of” citation, Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS): Recognition as “eminent, senior scientists who have made important and lasting contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior”
• 2011 member ( matriculation number 7462 ) of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2011 Distinguished Affiliated Professor in Economics at the Technical University of Munich
• 2011 Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis
• 2009 Honorary Doctorate in Psychology, University of Basel
• 1994 Outstanding Investigator Award from the Society for Medical Decision Making

Publications

• Elke U. Weber at Google Scholar

literature

• Leopoldina Newly elected members 2011, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2012, p. 71 ( Prof. Ph.D. Elke U. Weber )

Web links

• Member entry by Elke U. Weber (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Elke U. Weber. on the Princeton University website
• Literature by and about Elke U. Weber in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George F. Loewenstein, Elke U. Weber, Christopher K. Hsee, Ned Welch: Risk as feelings. In: Psychological Bulletin. 127, 2001, p. 267, doi : 10.1037 / 0033-2909.127.2.267 .
2. ^ Elke U. Weber, Paul C. Stern: Public understanding of climate change in the United States. In: American Psychologist. 66, 2011, p. 315, doi : 10.1037 / a0023253 .
3. ↑ Elke U. Weber: Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet). In: Climatic Change. 77, 2006, p. 103, doi : 10.1007 / s10584-006-9060-3 .