Dr Alistair Thorpe

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