I am Omid Ghasemi, a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). I am a behavioural scientist studying how people reason, form beliefs, and make decisions in complex, real-world contexts.
My research examines judgment and decision-making in areas such as climate change, public policy, and science communication. I am particularly interested in how people interpret information about risks and policies, how experiences shape beliefs, and why gaps often emerge between expert assessments and public perceptions.
I use behavioural experiments, large-scale surveys, and longitudinal data, often combined with real-world datasets, to better understand how people think and act outside the lab.