There are currently seven core faculty members. All serve as advisors to graduate students in the Program.
Michael DeKay
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder, 1994. Research interests include perceptions of health, safety, and ecological risks; precautionary reasoning; information distortion in risky decisions; the perceived fungibility of outcomes in repeated decisions; and applications in environmental and medical decision making. dekay.3@osu.edu
Ido Erev
Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1990. His research clarifies the conditions under which wise incentive systems can solve behavioral and social problems. (Arriving summer 2025) erevido@gmail.com
Kentaro Fujita
Professor; Ph.D., New York University, 2006. Research interests include motivation, cognition, self-regulation, and judgment & decision making. fujita.5@osu.edu
Peter Kvam
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2017. Research interests investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying many types of decisions, ranging from visual perception to judgments about the value of complex multi-attribute consumer products.. kvam.4@osu.edu
Roger Ratcliff
Professor; Ph.D., University of Auckland, 1974. Research interests include diffusion processes, memory models, quantitative modeling, aging, judgment & decision making. ratcliff.22@osu.edu
Trisha Van Zandt
Professor; Research interests focus on quantitative modeling. van-zandt.2@osu.edu
Duane T. Wegener
Professor; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1994. Research addresses social information processing in attitude change, impression formation, and decision making. Research also addresses the resulting biases in judgments and attempts to avoid or remove those biases. This research helps to inform understanding of the human side of social problems such as prejudice, health, and energy consumption. wegener.1@osu.edu