Joseph Árvai
- Director, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
- Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
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Expertise Summary
Expert on how the public, business leaders, and policy makers think and make decisions about environmental issues and sustainability; this includes climate change, natural hazards like floods and forest fires, consumer products, etc.
Expertise
- Climate change
- Energy
- Forest and wildland fire
- Endangered species
- Crime
- Terrorism
- COVID-19 and pandemics
- Environmental policy
- Hurricanes and extreme weather
- Flooding
- Contaminated sites
- Agriculture and food security
- Fake news and misinformation
- Risk perception and management
- Carbon sequestration and carbon capture
- Green consumer behavior
Languages
- English
- Hungarian
Additional Information
- Additionally, he provides expertise in situations where people’s instinctive approach to judgment and decision-making — such as their perceptions of risk and benefit — is biased by unchecked emotions and motivated reasoning.
- An internationally recognized leader in research on judgment and decision-making about sustainability and the environment.
- Joe and his lab of post-doctoral researchers and graduate students, conduct experiments aimed at improving our understanding of how people intuitively make judgments and decisions about environmental issues and sustainability.
- Joe’s lab also conducts R&D tools and approaches that can be used by consumers, policymakers, and business leaders to improve decision quality across a broad range of environmental, social, and economic contexts.
- Advisor to the government, business, and NGOs.
- A former member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chartered Science Advisory Board, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Environmental Change and Society.
- Advised CEOs, State and Provincial leaders, government agencies and their leaders, and presidential candidates.