Featured Faculty Member: Dr. Thomas S. Wallsten

Dr. Thomas S. Wallsten is professor and chair in the Department of Psychology. He is also a professor in the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL).

As a cognitive psychologist with a penchant for formal models, Dr. Wallsten’s long-standing research interests are in behavioral decision theory, including the areas of judgment, choice, probabilistic inference, and measurement and communication of opinion. His teaching interests are in these areas, as well as in cognitive and mathematical psychology.

He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Psychological Association, a charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.

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