Emily H Ho is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Medical Social Sciences. She is a behavioral scientist with training as a psychometrician and a quantitative psychologist. Her research interests include behavioral mechanisms underlying better decision-making and measurement science applied to education and health contexts, with a particular emphasis on performance measurement. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Climate Change, Behavioral Science and Policy, Psychological Assessment, Management Science, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change, Multivariate Behavioral Research, and Climatic Change. Additionally, her research has been featured in popular press outlets such as NPR, Ars Technica, Salon, and Chicago Policy Review, and Harvard Business Review.

Primary research interests include:

• psychological measurement

  • psychometric validity in large-scale assessments

  • scale development

  • automatic item generation

• judgment and decision-making

  • forecasting

  • risk perception and risk communication

  • information avoidance