LIVESTREAM Rational Decision Making in a Pandemic (Online Talk via Zoom)
When: Tue., Mar. 24, 2020 at 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
COVID19 emerged just 3 months ago in Wuhan, China. Because this is a new calamity, there is tremendous uncertainty about almost anything involving this new threat. Yet, communities and individuals need to make prudent decisions now, based on the information we have available.
In this talk, we will review what we know about the virus, how we know it, and what constitutes a reasonable response to the situation to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
About the Speaker
Pascal Wallisch serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychology at New York University, where he heads the Fox lab. He was the first one in his family to go to college. While in college–at the Free University of Berlin–he became a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation. He attended grad school at the University of Chicago, where he wrote a bestselling book on scientific programming in neuroscience and won a university-wide grad student teaching award as well as the first Eagleman Prize in Mathematics and Physics. He did postdocs at NYU CNS, and after joining the faculty in the Department of Psychology at NYU, he won the “Golden Dozen” award for excellence in teaching. Pascal has published on a wide range of topics, including neural response properties, dresses, movie ratings, cognitive diversity, color vision, and music.
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