Philip Tetlock
Philip Tetlock is a distinguished political science writer who is now focused on forecasting tournaments that have been sponsored by the U.S. government and have been running since 2011. He has published roughly 200 articles in peer-refereed journals and edited or written 10 books. Tetlock’s research programs have explored a variety of topics, including the challenges of assessing "good judgment" in both laboratory and real-world settings and the criteria that social scientists use in judging judgment and drawing normative conclusions about bias and error.
Philip Tetlock Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Annenberg University Professor
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Harold Burtt Professor of Psychology and Political Science
Academic History
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PhD, Psychology
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Bachelor of Arts
Awards and Honors
Philip Converse Book Award for outstanding Book in the field published five or more years ago, 2011, American Political Science Association (for co-authored Book, Reasoning and choice: Explorations in political psychology, 1992)
Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the Field of Political Psychology, 2008, International Society of Political Psychology
Grawemeyer World Order Prize, 2007
Woodrow Wilson Award for best book published on government, politics, or international affairs, 2006, American Political Science Association (for soloauthored Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?)
Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology, American Political Science on, 2006 (for solo-authored Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?)
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, 1988
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