Philip Tetlock

All Courses

• MGMT2760 - Cultiv Judgment Skills..

  This course will explore the diverse ways in which scholars and practitioners have defined "good judgment." And it will introduce students to practical tools for assessing and improving judgment, with special emphasis on probabilistic reasoning. Students will have the opportunity both to fine-tune their personal judgment skills as well as to master and then weave together insights from several bodies of scientific knowledge, including frequentist and Bayesian statistics, psychological work on judgment and choice, group dynamics, organizational behavior and political science (key concepts discussed in Tetlock's (2015) book "Superforecasting"). We will focus on bottom-line accuracy in sizing up real world problems. Class work will be primarily exercises, including working as an individual and in teams. You will have opportunities to forecast on a wide range of political, business, and macro-economic questions, which we will use as feedback tools to help you calibrate your judgment. Assessments include a weekly concept test and a final group presentation aimed to help you improve your judgment. The goal is to launch you on the lifelong process of learning how much trust you should place in your judgments of trustworthiness.

• MGMT9330 - Psych Found MGMT

  This seminar-based course, with active discussion and analysis, is required of all first-year doctoral students in Management and open to other Penn students with instructor permission. The purpose of this course is to examine and understand basics in the theory and empirical research in the field of micro organizational behavior and to build an understanding of people's behavior in organizations and across organizations. The course covers a blend of classic and contemporary literature so that we can appreciate the prevailing theories and findings in various areas of organizational behavior. This course covers micro-organizational behavior, focused on topics such as influence/status, virtual teams, job design, organizational culture and socialization, identity in organizations and overall look on where the field of micro-organizational behavior is going.

• PPE2355 - Political Psychology

  This course will explore psychological approaches to understanding political beliefs, attitudes, and actions at the levels of both individual citizens and national leaders. It will also explore the possibility that psychological science itself is not immune to the political debates swirling around it. Specific topics will include: the workings of belief systems (and their power to shape what we "see"), cognitive biases (and their power to cause miscalculations), sacred values and their role in stabilizing belief systems and social interaction, personality and ideology (the linkages between the personal and the political), and clashing conceptions of morality and distributive and corrective justice (striking variations among people in what they consider to be fair). We shall also explore some topics that have sparked controversy in the psychological research literature and that tend to polarize opinion along political lines, including work on intelligence and unconscious bias.

• PSYC2355 - Political Psychology

  This course will explore psychological approaches to understanding political beliefs, attitudes, and actions at the levels of both individual citizens and national leaders. It will also explore the possibility that psychological science itself is not immune to the political debates swirling around it. Specific topics will include: the workings of belief systems (and their power to shape what we "see"), cognitive biases (and their power to cause miscalculations), sacred values and their role in stabilizing belief systems and social interaction, personality and ideology (the linkages between the personal and the political), and clashing conceptions of morality and distributive and corrective justice (striking variations among people in what they consider to be fair). We shall also explore some topics that have sparked controversy in the psychological research literature and that tend to polarize opinion along political lines, including work on intelligence and unconscious bias.

• PSYC4998 - Mentored Research

  Mentored research involving data collection. Students do independent empirical work under the supervision of a faculty member, leading to a written paper. Normally taken in the junior or senior year.

• PSYC4999 - Honors Mentored Research

  The Honors Program has been developed to recognize excellence in psychology among Penn undergraduates and to enhance skills related to psychological research. The 4998 credit signifies an Honors Independent Study, completed as part of the Honors Program. The honors program involves: (a) completing a year-long empirical research project in your senior year under the supervision of a faculty member (for a letter grade). This earns 2 cu's. (b) completing a second term of statistics (for a letter grade) before graduation. (c) participating in the year-long Senior Honors seminar (for a letter grade). This seminar is designed especially for Psychology Honors majors; this receives a total of 1 cu. (d) participating in the Undergraduate Psychology Research Fair in the Spring semester, at which honors students present a poster and give a 15-minute talk about their research. (e) a total of 15 cu's in psychology is required. Students will be selected to be part of the Honors Program in the Spring of their junior year (see application process online)

• PSYC6000 - Proseminar in Psych

  Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.

• PSYC6999 - Indiv Res for 1st Yr Grd

  Individual Research for First-Year Graduate Students

• PSYC9999 - Independent Study

  Individual Study and Research

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
• Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the Field of Political Psychology, 2008
• Grawemeyer World Order Prize, 2007
• Woodrow Wilson Award for best book published on government, politics, or international affairs, 2006
• Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology, American Political Science Association, 2006
• National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of War, 1999
• MacArthur Fellow in International Security and Conflict Resolution, 1999-2001
• Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political Psychology, International Society of Political Psychology, 1997
• Woodrow Wilson Book Award, American Political Science Association (co-recipient with P. Sniderman & R. Brody, for Reasoning and choice: Explorations in political psychology), 1992
• Philip Converse Book Award for outstanding book in the field published five or more years ago, American Political Science Association (for co-authored book, Reasoning and choice: Explorations in political psychology, 1992
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, 1988
• MacArthur Fellow in International Security and Conflict Resolution, 1987-1989
• Fellow of Division 8 of the American Psychological Association, 1987
• Erik H. Erikson Award of the International Society of Political Psychology, 1987
• Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1987
• Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1986
• Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1977-1979
• Yale University Fellowship, 1976-1977
• Governor-General’s Gold Medal, Award for Undergraduate Academic Excellence, 1975
• British Columbia Psychological Association Gold Medal, 1975

• The Psychology of Holiday Gift Giving: The Good, the Bad, the Irrational - 12/22/2011
• Don’t Mention It: How ‘Undiscussables’ Can Undermine an Organiztion - 12/20/2011
• Research Goundup: Improving Intelligence Forecasts, Vertically Integrated Health Care, and ‘Worrisome’ Health Care Costs - 12/20/2011

Knowledge at Wharton

• Long Road Ahead: The Promise — and Perils — of Self-driving Cars, Knowledge at Wharton - 7/6/2018
• How to Avoid the Perils of Political Forecasting, Knowledge at Wharton - 9/19/2017
• When Will Electric Cars Go Mainstream?, Knowledge at Wharton - 1/6/2017
• Why Even the Best Forecasters Sometimes Miss the Mark, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/19/2016
• Why an Open Mind Is Key to Making Better Predictions, Knowledge at Wharton - 10/2/2015