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Slovic studies how
people make decisions
BY ADAM DUVERNAY
The (eugene) register-Guard
A Eugene-based researcher
who for six decades has stud-
ied how and why people make
the choices they do has been
named the recipient of a presti-
gious science award.
Paul Slovic, a University of
Oregon professor of psychol-
ogy and president of the local
institute Decision Research, has
received the Franklin Institute’s
2022 Bower Award and Prize
for Achievement in Science.
Slovic’s research is important to
government, medical and other
fields reliant on understanding
how people process the deci-
sions they make.
The theme for the 2022
award was “decision-making.”
“I don’t work alone. I’ve
worked with hundreds of col-
leagues over the years. I see
the award as a recognition of
the work we’ve all done to-
gether,” Slovic said. “It’s a trib-
ute to them and a tribute to
our whole field of judgment
and decision-making in which
I work.”
The Franklin Institute hon-
ored Slovic “for foundational
theoretical and empirical con-
tributions to the study of de-
cision making, including un-
derstanding perceptions of
individual and societal risk,
and cognitive and emotional
factors affecting preference.”
Slovic has lived in Eugene
since 1964 when he joined the
dana Sparks/The register-Guard
Paul Slovic, seen here in his office in Eugene, has won the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
Oregon Research Institute.
He worked there until 1976
when he and two colleagues
founded the nonprofit De-
cision Research, focused on
decision-making habits and
the valuation of potential out-
comes.
He joined the UO staff in
1986 and works there today
primarily as a research adviser.
UO professor Ellen Peters,
Philip H. Knight Chair and di-
rector of the Center for Science
Communication Research,
nominated her longtime col-
league for the Bower Award.
“Eugene is a hotbed of re-
search in decision-making and
science communication, and
that’s largely because of Paul
Slovic,” Peters said. “He revo-
lutionized the science of deci-
sion-making, especially with
respect to risk perception and
risk communication.”
Slovic entered the field while
working for a University of
Michigan professor studying
gambles with the chance to win
money. Illustrative of the kind
of work he still does, they stud-
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PORTLAND — A Portland
Police Bureau internal investi-
gation has confirmed that the
former president of the po-
lice union leaked allegations
against City Commissioner Jo
Ann Hardesty in retaliation
for her criticism of officers.
A months-long internal
affairs investigation into a
Portland Police Bureau leak
found officers Brian Hunze-
ker, Kerri Ottoman and Ken
Le disclosed the false infor-
mation, according to an Oc-
tober disposition letter sent
to Hardesty and obtained
Thursday by Oregon Public
Broadcasting in a public re-
cords request, the news outlet
reported.
The letter, which both
Hardesty and the city did not
want released, gives public
confirmation of the facts be-
hind the leak after much spec-
ulation.
The internal affairs letter
confirms for the first time that
Hunzeker leaked the infor-
mation as an act of retaliation
against Hardesty.
“There were many reasons
Officer Hunzeker cited as
the driving factors for why
he shared the information
and one of those factors, he
admits, was in response to
Commissioner Hardesty’s
false allegation about offi-
cers setting fires during the
civil unrest,” North Precinct
Commander Kristina Jones
wrote.
Hardesty had said she
didn’t think protesters in
Portland were setting fires in
the city and that it was “a po-
lice action.” Hardesty apolo-
gized for her statements after
strong pushback.
The investigation did not
find that race was a motivat-
ing factor for the leaks, ac-
cording to the letter.
Sgt. Kevin Allen, a police
bureau spokesperson, said
that despite the release of the
letter, the internal affairs
investigation remains on-
going.
Earlier this month,
Hardesty filed a $5 million
lawsuit against Hunzeker,
Ottoman, the police union
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Vacant house catches fire
Friday morning in Madras
A home, shop and vehicles
were burned in a fire early Fri-
day morning in Madras.
Shortly after 1 a.m., the Jef-
ferson County Fire District No.
1 was dispatched to a structure
fire on NE Daisy Street, ac-
cording to a news release from
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When the crew of four staff
and six volunteers arrived at
the scene, multiple structures
— including a shop, shed, an-
other home and several vehi-
cles — were involved in the
fire.
Fire in the house, which
firefighters were told was va-
cant, was put out while salvage
and overhaul was performed
by the fire crew. To establish
a water source, the crews had
to close U.S. Highway 26. A
nearby home was also evacu-
ated until the fire was under
control.
No injuries were reported,
and the cause of the fire is still
under investigation by Oregon
State Police arson investigators.
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ied how people gamble based
on factors such as probability
of winning or rewards.
“We found the same gamble
was evaluated very differently
when we asked ‘How much
would you like to play this
gamble’ or ‘How much would
you pay to play the gamble?’
We would get opposite re-
sponses depending on the way
we asked the question,” he said.
Slovic’s research has been
applied to issues such as the
COVID-19 pandemic, an
event he believes is marked by
a “profound failure of commu-
nication.”
Slovic dug into research
from decades ago to reveal
apparently unlearned lessons
about how poorly people intuit
ideas like “exponential growth”
and how using it to explain the
spread of the virus failed.
“That lesson was not heeded.
In fact, it was disregarded by
our government,” he said. “Not
enough was done to stop it, so
then it grew exponentially and
we see the results.”
Decision-making research
can be used to determine the
most effective ways to present
options, such as whether to un-
dertake a risky surgery, Slovic
said, or to understand if peo-
ple will be willing to factor in
the global community when
weighing their choices.
“We now have to contem-
plate things that are huge in
scale and affect millions of
people. Our intuitive brain
does not understand millions,”
Slovic said. “Our risk percep-
tion is mostly a feeling of how
risky it is, and our feelings
don’t do arithmetic particularly
well.”
The Bower Award and Prize
for Achievement in Science
will be presented to Slovic in
2022. The prize is $250,000,
but Slovic said he hasn’t yet de-
cided how he’ll spend it.
The 2021 winner was Kuni-
hiko Fukushima, who in 1979
invented the convolutional
neural network “Neocogni-
tron,” contributing to the de-
velopment of artificial intelli-
gence.
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