Paul D. Windschitl

University of Iowa — United States

Decision Sciences · Social Sciences

29h-index4.3kcitations115works0.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(49), Behavioral Health and Interventions(35), Optimism, Hope, and Well-being(33), Social and Intergroup Psychology(24), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(12)

Publications115 total

The cognitive mechanisms behind wishful predictions: A diffusion model decomposition
Cognition·2025
The Cognitive Mechanisms Behind Wishful Predictions: A Diffusion Model Decomposition
2025Open Access
Pre-Decisional Distortion of Risk Information Seen in Icon Arrays
2025Open Access
Motivated Interpretations of Survival Rates in Icon Arrays: An Issue of Frequency Format?
Medical Decision Making·2025
Motivated Interpretations of Survival Rates in Icon Arrays: An Issue of Frequency Format?
2025Open Access
Eliciting Risk Perceptions: Does Conditional Question Wording Have a Downside?
2025Open Access
Combining Forecasts From Advisors: The Impact of Advice Independence and Verbal vs. Numeric Format
2025Open Access
Combining forecasts from advisors: The impact of advice independence and verbal versus numeric format.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2024Open Access
Eliciting Risk Perceptions: Does Conditional Question Wording Have a Downside?
Medical Decision Making·2024· 1 cited
Do people desire optimism from others during a novel global crisis?
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making·2023Open Access
Do People Desire Optimism from Others During a Novel Global Crisis?
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Which measures of perceived vulnerability predict protective intentions—and when?
Journal of Behavioral Medicine·2023· 4 cited
Effect of Presenting Survival Information as Text or Pictograph During Periviable Birth Counseling: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
The Journal of Pediatrics·2023· 8 cited
People express more bias in their predictions than in their likelihood judgments.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
The desirability bias in predictions under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty
Cognition·2022· 4 cited
People Express More Bias in Their Predictions than in Their Likelihood Judgments
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?
Psychological Science·2021· 10 cited
Attributions for ambiguity in a treatment‐decision context can create ambiguity aversion or seeking
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?
2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Study 3 Materials
2021
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Frequent Co-authors

Andrew R. Smith(11), Jason P. Rose(7), John R. Chambers(6), Gary L. Wells(5), Zlatan Križan(5), Jerry Suls(5), Aaron M. Scherer(5), Justin Kruger(3), Elke U. Weber(3), Annette R. Flugstad(3), Robert F. Belli(2), Thomas T. McCarthy(2), Steve E. Winfrey(2), Jeremy Burrus(2), Florian Fessel(2), Jillian O’Rourke Stuart(2), Michael E. Young(2), Ericka Nus Simms(1), Kathryn Bruchmann(1), Annette R. Kaufman(1)