Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD
Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Behavioral Science, University of Southern California
Dr. Wändi Bruine de Bruin is a psychologist whose research aims to understand risk perceptions, decision making, and interventions. She is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science at the University of Southern California, where she holds positions in the public policy school, the psychology department and the centers for economics and health policy and for economics and social research. Her own research aims to understand and inform on how people make decisions about personal health, household finance, and well-being. To this end, she has designed survey modules for national survey panels such as USC’s Understanding America Study, including on public risk perceptions of coronavirus. Wändi also uses insights from psychology and behavioral science to develop and test interventions for promoting better decision outcomes and well-being. She has published over 100 papers on these topics across journals in psychology, policy, public health, and other fields and serves on the editorial boards of multiple publications including the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, the Journal of Risk Research, and the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. She has shared her expertise on panels on science communication at the National Academy of Sciences, on health communications at the Council of the Canadian Academies, and on pandemic influenza at the Seva Foundation. She received her PhD in behavioral decision research and psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
Expertise: Behavioral and decision science, public health, public policy, communications