Wändi Bruine de Bruin, MSc, PhD
Co-Director, Behavioral Sciences Program, USC Schaeffer CenterSenior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science, USC Price School of Public Policy
Behavioral Scientist, USC Center for Economic and Social Research
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, MSc, PhD's Bio
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, MSc, PhD is the Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science at the USC Price School of Public Policy. Bruine de Bruin’s research aims to understand and inform how, across the life span, people make decisions about their health, their well-being, and their environmental impacts. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on these topics, in journals targeting psychology, public policy, health, and environmental science. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Psychology:Applied, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Decision, Medical Decision Making, the Journal of Risk Research, and Psychology and Aging. Her research on age differences in decision making was recently covered by Psychology Today and the BBC World’s Why Factor. She has served on expert panels for the National Academy of Sciences on Communicating Science Effectively and for the Council of the Canadian Academies on Health Product Risk Communication.
