Angela Fagerlin, PhD

Angie Fagerlin studied psychology and literature at Hope College and received her PhD in experimental (cognitive) psychology at Kent State University. Her primary research focus is testing methods for communicating the risks and benefits of treatment to patients (e.g., in decision aids). Her other...

Peter Ubel, MD

Peter A. Ubel, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan; a primary care physician at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Associate Director of the Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program; and Director of the Center for...

Dylan Smith, PhD

Dylan Smith studied social psychology at Arizona State University, where his work focused on interpersonal and intergroup relations and evolutionary psychology. His current research seeks to translate theoretical and methodological advances in the behavioral sciences to the study of health-related...

Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD

Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher studied economics and psychology at Swarthmore College before getting his doctorate in behavioral decision theory at Carnegie Mellon University. Although Dr. Zikmund-Fisher began his academic career in behavioral economics, he moved from studying consumer choice to medical...