Biography

Dr. Richard John is a professor in the Department of Psychology in the Dornsife College of
Letters, Arts & Sciences at USC and a Senior Research Fellow at CREATE. He has contributed to
CREATE since its inception.

Dr. John’s research focuses on normative and descriptive models of human judgment and
decision making and methodological issues in application of decision and probabilistic risk
analysis (PRA). He has consulted on a number of large projects involving expert elicitation,
including analysis of nuclear power plant risks (NUREG 1150) and analysis of cost and schedule
risk for tritium supply alternatives.

Richard has over 50 refereed publications, including top journals published by The Institute for
Operations Research and Management Science (Management Science, Information Systems
Research, Interfaces), The Society for Risk Analysis (Risk Analysis), and the American
Psychological Association (Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Clinical and Consulting
Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and Journal of Family Psychology), and well as
other top journals related to judgment and decision making, e.g., Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Jurimetrics.

Richard received his PhD. in quantitative psychology from the University of Southern California
in 1984, M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1983, and
B.S. in applied mathematics (summa cum laude) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in
1976.