Ann's research focused on stakeholder participation
in risk management processes with a particular emphasis on
evaluating decision quality. Other researchers have
suggested that the quality of the decision making process
defines the overall quality of resulting decisions. Results
from Ann’s experiments, in which participants rated the
quality of affect-rich and affect-poor scenarios that
varied in terms of the process used to make the decision
and its associated outcomes, suggest that in addition to
process, the outcomes of a decision also play a large role
in lay evaluations of decision quality.
These findings point to an important disconnect in terms of
the way that the lay stakeholders and experts evaluate the
quality of risk management decisions. Ann completed her
M.Sc. in 2004 and currently works for the
National Park Service and the
Friends of the Great Smoky
Mountains. (Ann is photographed here with a live
bear that is being tagged as part of a bear monitoring
study in the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.)
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