Dr Alistair Thorpe

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Utah, School of Medicine

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Utah, School of Medicine working with Drs. Angela Fagerlin and Elissa Ozanne within the Department of Population Health Sciences.

I have general research interest in understanding how people estimate, judge, and make health-related decisions. Based on these insights, I aim to develop interventions (e.g., decision aids and communication strategies) designed to engender more judicious decisions about health and wellbeing.

Interests

Medical decision making
Risk perceptions
Risk communication

Education

PhD Psychology, 2019
University of Essex
BSc Psychology, 2016
University of Essex

Current research

Antibiotics

Behavioural strategies to promote clinically prudent use by the public and prescribers.

COVID-19

Health communication strategies and public engagement with infection control guidelines.

Congenital Heart Disease

Parents’ experiences following a diagnosis of CHD for their fetus or neonate.

Atrial Fibrillation

Physicians’ interpretations of predicted AF risk and RCT evidence on direct oral anticoagulants.

Recent Publications

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Alistair Thorpe, Angela Fagerlin, Jorie Butler, Vanessa Stevens, Frank A. Drews, Holly Shoemaker, Marian Riddoch, Laura D. Scherer. Communicating about COVID-19 vaccine development and safety. medRxiv, 2021.

Paul K. J. Han, Elizabeth Scharnetzki, Aaron M. Scherer, Alistair Thorpe, Christine Lary, Leo B. Waterston, Angela Fagerlin, Nathan F. Dieckmann. Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021.

Alistair Thorpe, Miroslav Sirota, Sheina Orbell, Marie Juanchich. Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics. British Journal of Psychology, 2021.

Alistair Thorpe, Aaron M. Scherer, Paul K. J. Han, Nicole Burpo, Victoria Shaffer, Laura Scherer, Angela Fagerlin. Exposure to Common Geographic COVID-19 Prevalence Maps and Public Knowledge, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Intentions. JAMA Network Open, 2021.

Alistair Thorpe, Miroslav Sirota, Marie Juanchich, Sheina Orbell. Action bias in the public’s clinically inappropriate expectations for antibiotics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2020.

Russell Craig, Adam Cox, Dennis Tourish, Alistair Thorpe. Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?. Research Policy, 2020.

Steven Zimmerman, Alistair Thorpe, Jon Chamberlain, Udo Kruschwitz. Towards Search Strategies for Better Privacy and Information. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2020.

Alistair Thorpe, Miroslav Sirota, Marie Juanchich, Sheina Orbell. ‘Always take your doctor’s advice’: Does trust moderate the effect of information on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing expectations?. British Journal of Health Psychology, 2020.

Steven Zimmerman, Alistair Thorpe, Chris Fox, Udo Kruschwitz. Investigating the Interplay Between Searchers' Privacy Concerns and Their Search Behavior. Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019.

Steven Zimmerman, Alistair Thorpe, Chris Fox, Udo Kruschwitz. Privacy Nudging in Search: Investigating Potential Impacts. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2019.

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