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Richard John Associate Professor of Psychology Contact Information E-mail: richardj@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-4011 Office: SGM 621

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Associate Professor. Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 07/1997-  
• Associate Professor, Institute for Safety and Systems Management, University of Southern California, 07/1990-06/1997  
• Assistant Professor, Institute for Safety and Systems Management, University of Southern California, 07/1984-06/1990  

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

• CREATE - Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, Risk Analysis and Risk Perception Teams, Designated Researcher,http://www.usc.edu/dept/create/

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations

• "Value focused thinking for evaluating alternative counter-terrorism policies", Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Talk/Oral Presentation, , San Diego, California, CREATE, Invited, 10/11/2009-10/14/2009  
• "Fear and loathing in Hollywood and elsewhere: Studies in perception of risks from terrorism (asymmetric threats).", MIT Conference on Security and Human Behavior, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Cambridge, Massachusetts, CREATE, Invited, 06/10/2009-06/11/2009  
• "Value focused thinking for counterterrorism risk analysis", annual Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summit Meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Washington, D. C.,, CREATE, Invited, 03/17/2009-03/18/2009  
• "Faithful followers of Rev. Bayes seduced to the dark side", 47th annual Bayesian Research Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Fullerton, California, CREATE, Invited, 01/07/2009-01/10/2009  
• "Defender-attacker decision trees for terrorism risk analysis.", Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) annual meeting, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Boston, Massachusetts, CREATE, Invited, 12/07/2008-12/10/2008  
• "The Sum of Our Fears and Egocentric Zero-Sum Assumptions ", Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Washington, D.C., CREATE, Invited, 10/12/2008-10/15/2008  
• "Perspective Taking: Avoiding the Zero-Sum Trap ", Conference on Behavioral Economics and Terrorism, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Los Angeles, CREATE, Invited, 08/15/2008-08/16/2008  
• "Perspective Taking & Threat Assessment ", MIT Conference on Human Behavior and Security, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Cambridge, Ma., CREATE, Invited, 06/30/2008-07/01/2008  
• "Probabilistic Project Management for a Terrorist Planning a Dirty Bomb Attack on a Major US Port", NPS Workshop on Critical Infrastructure, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Monterrey, California, Naval Post Graduate School, Invited, 06/06/2008-06/07/2008  
• "Random Utility Modeling for the Rational Terrorist", LANL Risk Symposium 2008, Effective Risk Communication: Tools, Theory and Applications , Talk/Oral Presentation, , Santa Fe, New Mexico, CREATE, Invited, 03/11/2008-03/13/2008  
• "What do terrorists really want?", Bayesian Research Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Fullerton, California, CREATE, Invited, 01/10/2008-01/11/2008  
• "Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to terrorism events", Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , San Antonio, CREATE, Invited, 12/09/2007-12/12/2007  
• "What do we know about public perception of terrorism risks?", Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , San Antonio, CREATE, Invited, 12/09/2007-12/12/2007  
• "Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to terrorism events.", Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Seattle, CREATE, Invited, 11/04/2007-11/07/2007  
• "Decision analysis by proxy for the rational terrorist", Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Seattle, CREATE, Invited, 11/04/2007-11/07/2007  
• "Lifestyle choices: The difference between you and me. ", Association for Psychological Science (APS), Poster, Refereed , Washington, D. C., 05/24/2007-05/27/2007  
• "Random utility modeling of terrorist preferences to estimate terrorist attack probability", Los Alamos National Laboratory Risk Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Santa Fe, N. M., Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) & DHS, Invited, 03/25/2007-03/26/2007  
• "Modeling terrorist motivations and beliefs", DHS University Programs Research Summit, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Washington, D. C., Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Invited, 03/15/2007-03/16/2007  
• "Estimating likelihood of terrorist attacks by modeling terrorist objectives and values", Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Pittsburg, CREATE, Invited, 11/2006  
• "Future time perspective, risk perceptions, and health", Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Poster, Refereed , Dallas, 11/16/2006-11/20/2006  
• "Age differences in preventive health decisions", Association of Psychological Science (APS), Poster, Refereed , New York, 05/25/2006-05/28/2006  

Publications

Book Chapter

• Brougham, R., John, R. S. (2009). Time Perspective: Health, Income, and Age.
• Marjchrzak, A., Malhotra, A., John, R. S. (2008). Enabling knowledge sharing effectiveness in structurally diverse distributed teams with organizational memory information systems, In I. Becerra-Fernandez & D. Leidner (Eds.), Knowledge management: An evolutionary view of the field. New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc..
• Brougham, R. R., John, R. S. (2007). Age differences in preventative health decisions, In Paul O’Neal (Ed.), Motivation of health behavior. pp. 49-63. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Conference Proceeding

• Rosoff, H., John, R. S. (2009). Decision analysis by proxy for the rational terrorist. Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Workshop on Quantitative Risk Analysis for Security Applications (QRASA), Pasadena, California, July 11-17..

Journal Article

• Silverton, L., Mednick, S., Holst, C., John, R. S. (2008). High social class and suicide in persons at risk for schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Vol. 117 (3), pp. 192-197.
• Doumas, D. M., Margolin, G., John, R. S. (2008). Spillover patterns in single-earner couples: Work, self-care, and the marital relationship. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. Vol. 29 (1), pp. 55-73.
• Damos, D. L., John, R. S., Lyall, E. A. (2005). Pilot activities and the level of cockpit automation. The International Journal of Aviation Psychology. Vol. 15 (3), pp. 251-268.
• Majchrzak, A., Malhotra, A., John, R. S. (2005). Perceived individual collaboration know-how development through information technology-enabled contextualization: evidence from distributed teams. Information Systems Research. Vol. 16 (1), pp. 9-27.
• Doumas, D., Margolin, G., John, R. S. (2003). The relationship between daily marital interaction, work, and health-promoting behaviors in dual-earner couples: An extension of the work-family spillover model. Journal of Family Issues/Sage Publications. Vol. 24 (1), pp. 3-20.
• Delsol, C., Margolin, G., John, R. S. (2003). A typology of maritally violent men and correlates of violence in a community sample. Journal of Marriage and Family. Vol. 65 (3), pp. 635-651.
• Dillon, R. L., John, R. S., von Winterfeldt, D. (2002). Assessment of cost uncertainties for large technology projects: A methodology and an application. Interfaces. Vol. 32 (4), pp. 52-66.
• Gatz, M., Reynolds, C. A., Johansson, B., Mortimer, J. A., Pedersen, N. L., John, R. S. (2002). Telephone screening to identify potential dementia cases in a population-based sample of older adults. International Psychogeriatrics. Vol. 14 (3), pp. 273-289.
• Margolin, G., Gordis, E. B., John, R. S. (2001). Coparenting: A link between marital conflict and parenting in two parent families. Journal of Family Psychology. Vol. 15 (1), pp. 3-21.
• Gordis, E. B., Margolin, G., John, R. S. (2001). The relations among parents' hostility in dyadic marital and triadic family settings and children's behavior problems. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Vol. 69 (4), pp. 727-734.

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments

• Chair, University Park Institutional Review Board (UPIRB), 07/01/2006-  

Committees

• Chair, Progressive Masters Degree Program, Department of Psychology, 08/16/2009-  
• Member, Subject Pool, Department of Psychology, 08/16/2008-  
• Member, Masters in Human Behavior Degree Program, Department of Psychology, 08/16/2007-  
• Chair, University Park Institutional Review Board (UPIRB), 07/01/2006-