Ola Svenson Professor emeritus

Main research interests

Ola Svenson is the head of the Risk Analysis, Social and Decision Research Unit.

He is also associated with Decision Research, Oregon, USA, as a Senior Research Scientist. His main research interests cover basic and applied research in human cognition, decision processes, risk- and accident analysis and social psychology.

His publications can be found at scholar.google.se

Current research projects

Ola Svenson's current research is focused on the following themes and projects.

1. Human decision processes before and after a decision, Diff Con theory.
2. Psychological reactions when it becomes clear that a decision was wrong.
3. Cognitive and emotional reactions when a decision turns out to be in conflict with peers or experts.
4. Decision maker competency and relations between biased judgments: individual differences.
5. Safety management and incident analysis
6. Driver cognition
7. Economic psychology
8. Traffic safety
9. Process tracing of decision and judgment processes.
10. Risk perception

Examples of collaborating institutions

• Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon USA
• Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Linköping, Sweden
• Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• Leiden University, The Netherlands