Allan, Jinan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Main Focus

  • Informed Decision Making
  • Risk Literacy
  • Problem Solving 
  • Numeracy 
  • Intelligence

Curriculum Vitae

  • since 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  • since 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Science of Intelligence Cluster of Excellence
  • 2018-2021: PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma
  • 2018-2021: Graduate Research Scientist, National Institute for Risk and Resilience
  • 2015-2018: MS in Cognitive Psychology, University of Oklahoma
  • 2011-2015: BS in Mathematics-Statistics, Michigan Technological University

Selected Publications

  • Cokely, E.T., Feltz, A., Ghazal, S., Allan, J.N., Petrova, D., & Garcia-Retamero, R., (2018). Skilled Decision Theory:  From Intelligence to Numeracy and Expertise. In K. A. Ericsson, R. R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt, & A. M. Williams (2nd Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Allan, J. N., Ripberger, J.T., Wehde, W., Krocak, M., Silva, C., & Jenkins-Smith, H. (2020). Geographic Distributions of Extreme Weather Risk Perceptions in the United States. Risk Analysis: An International Journal.
  • Ripberger, J.T., Silva, C., Jenkins-Smith, H Allan, J.N., Krocak, M., Wehde, W., & Ernst, S. (2020). Exploring Community Differences in Tornado Warning Reception, Comprehension, and Response Across the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(6), E936–E948.


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