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Melissa L. Finucane

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52

Publications

9.4K

Citations

32

H-Index

1996

Active since

Affiliations

RAND Corporation(Current)

Decision Research

Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

Louisiana State University

University of Oregon

Melissa L. Finucane is an author at RAND Corporation specializing in public health, management, and social sciences.

Top concepts

ManagementPublic HealthSocial SciencesRisk CommunicationMedicineEngineeringPsychologyDecision TheoryRisk ManagementDecision Science

Publications per year

1996–2023

52

Publications

52

The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits

Melissa L. Finucane, Ali Alhakami, Paul Slovic et al. · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making · 2000 · 2.8K citations

The affect heuristic

Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters et al. · European Journal of Operational Research · 2006 · 1.4K citations

Affect Heuristic, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Science +8

Gender, race, and perceived risk: The 'white male' effect

Melissa L. Finucane, Paul Slovic, C. K. Mertz et al. · Health Risk & Society · 2000 · 1.1K citations

Racial Prejudice, White People, Social Determinants Of Health +24

Rational actors or rational fools: implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics

Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters et al. · The Journal of Socio-Economics · 2002 · 562 citations

Cognitive Biases, Affect Heuristic, Economics +14

Expert and Public Perception of Risk from Biotechnology

Lucia Savadori, Stefania Savio, Eraldo Francesco Nicotra et al. · Risk Analysis · 2004 · 336 citations

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