{"id":8132,"date":"2023-05-09T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancefordecisioneducation.org\/?post_type=team&#038;p=8132"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:04:39","slug":"jennifer-lerner-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/alliancefordecisioneducation.org\/learn\/about-the-alliance\/team\/jennifer-lerner-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jennifer Lerner is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Management and Decision Science at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/faculty\/jennifer-lerner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Harvard Kennedy School<\/a>. She is the first psychologist in the history of the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. Jennifer also holds appointments in Harvard\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/jennifer-susan-lerner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Department of Psychology<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iq.harvard.edu\/people\/jennifer-lerner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences<\/a>. In addition to her roles at Harvard, Jennifer has taken leave from Harvard to serve as the Navy\u2019s first Chief Decision Scientist, reporting to the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (2018-2019).<\/p>\n<p>Drawing insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience, her research examines human judgment and decision-making. Together with colleagues, she developed a theoretical framework that successfully predicts the effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Applied widely, the framework has been especially useful in predicting emotions effects on perceptions of risk, economic decisions, and attributions of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer serves on a diverse set of boards, including the scientific advisory boards for two corporations in the machine learning and decision-making space, as well as the Faculty Steering Committee for Harvard\u2019s Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative. Previously, she served for two years on an expert panel within the National Institutes of Health, and for three years as the first behavioral scientist ever appointed to the United States Secretary of the Navy\u2019s Advisory Panel. In this role, she provided input to the Secretary on critical matters faced by the Navy and the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Jennifer received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California \u2013 Berkeley.\u00a0 After a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, Jennifer joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.\u00a0 She served as Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Science, and later the Estella Loomis McCandless Associate Professor of Social and Decision Science. Jennifer joined the Harvard faculty and received tenure in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8134,"parent":0,"template":"","team_category":[42],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D | Alliance for Decision Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alliancefordecisioneducation.org\/learn\/about-the-alliance\/team\/jennifer-lerner-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Jennifer Lerner is the Thornton F. 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