His research includes work on hindsight bias,[7] calibration of probability judgments[8][9] (over/underconfidence), preference elicitation (and construction),[10][11] adolescent decision making,[12][13] individual differences in decision-making competence,[14][15] climate and energy,[16][17] risk analysis,[18] expert judgment,[19][20] pandemic disease,[21][22] medicine,[23][24] usability of AI,[25][26] risk perception and communication,[27][28] science communication,[29][30] security,[31] and interdisciplinary collaboration.[32][33]
^Society for Judgment and Decision Making (1990–1991). "SJDM Presidents". Judgment and Decision Making. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
^Fischhoff, B. (1975). Hindsight foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1(3), 288-299. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.1.3.288
Fischhoff, B. (2025). Fifty years of hindsight bias research. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(2),143-150. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001232
^Lichtenstein, S. & Fischhoff, B. (1977). Do those who know more also know more about how much they know? The calibration of probability judgments. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 20, 159-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-5073(77)90001-0
^Bruine de Bruin, W., Parker, A., & Fischhoff, B. (2007). Individual differences in adult decision-making competence (A-DMC). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92, 938-956. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.5.93
^Parker, A.M., Bruine de Bruin, W., Fischhoff, B., & Weller, J. (2018). Robustness of decision-making competence: Evidence from two measures and an 11-year longitudinal study. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 380-391. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2059
^Wong-Parodi, G., Krishnamurti, T., Davis, A.L., Schwartz, D., & Fischhoff, B. (2016). Integrating social science in climate and energy solutions: A decision science approach. Nature Climate Change, 6, 563-569. https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2917
^Fischhoff, B. (2021). Making behavioral science integral to climate science and action. Behavioural Public Policy, 5(4) 439-453. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.38
^Henrion, M. & Fischhoff, B. (1986). Assessing uncertainty in physical constants. American Journal of Physics, 54, 791-798. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14447
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Fischhoff, B., & Davis, A.L. (2014). Communicating scientific uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (Supplement 4), 13664-13671. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.131750411
^Fischhoff, B., Bruine de Bruin, W., Guvenc, U., Caruso, D., & Brilliant, L. (2006). Analyzing disaster risks and plans: An avian flu example. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 33, 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-006-0175-8
^Fischhoff, B. (2017). Breaking ground for psychological science: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration. American Psychologist, 72(2). 118-125. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040438
^Mohan, D., Fischhoff, B., Angus, D.C., Rosengart, M.R., Wallace, D.J., Yealy, D.M., Farris, C., Chang, C.-C.H., Kerti, S., & Barnato, A.E. (2018). Serious video games may improve physicians’ heuristics in trauma triage. PNAS, 115(37), 9204-9209. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1805450115
^Arnold, J., Davis, A.L., Fischhoff, B., Yecies, E., Grace, J.O., Klobuka, A., Hand, M.O., Mohan, D., & Hanmer, J.Z. (2019). Comparing the predictive ability of a commercial artificial intelligence early warning system with physician judgment for clinical deterioration in hospitalized general internal medicine patients, a prospective observational study. BMJ Open, 9, e032187. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-03218 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/10/e032187
^nning, R., Fischhoff, B., & Davis, A.L. (2024). When do humans heed AI agents’ advice?
When should they? Human Factors. 66(7), 1914-1927. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208231190459
^Fischhoff, B. (2011). Communicating the risks of terrorism (and anything else). American Psychologist, 66, 520-531. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024570
^Fischhoff, B. (2013). The sciences of science communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (Supplement 3), 14033-14039. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213273110.
^Fischhoff, B., Atran, S., & Fischhoff, N. (2007). Counting casualties: A framework for respectful, useful records. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-006-9001-6
^Fischhoff, B. (2025). Bounded disciplines and unbounded problems (The Clarendon Lectures in Management). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/59320