Kenneth Hammond

Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1948; B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1940. Kenneth R. Hammond was born to Janette A. Hammond and LLewllyn B. Hammond in San Francisco in 1917. He was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado. He was a co-founder (with Morris Garnsey) of the Institute of Behavioral Science and co-founder (with Gary McCLelland) of the Center for Research on Judgment and Policy. He was the founder of the Brunswik Society. He held a year -long travel award from the Ford Foundation for travel and lectures in Europe and the Soviet Union in1964-65. He was a NATO visiting lecturer in England, France, Italy, and Greece in 1970. He was a scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Center in Italy in 1974, and a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria in 1977. He was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Uppsala in Sweden in 1982. His most recent lecture was at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin in 2006. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado from 1948 until his retirement in 1987. Hammond's fields of interest included expert judgment, effects of stress on judgment, and conflict resolution in public policy making. He consulted for federal, state, and local governments and for multinational corporations. In 1979 he was invited to the White House to present a demonstration on information management for policy analysis. He received support from the National Science Foundation, the United States Public Health Service and several private foundations for his work. In 1997 he presented a week-long course on judgment and policy for the Brazilian government in Sao Paolo. He published 13 books and over 100 articles. His most recent books include Beyond Rationality: The Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time, the award-winning Human Judgment and Social Policy: Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error, Unavoidable Injustice, and Judgments Under Stress. He also co-edited The Essential Brunswik: Beginnings, Explications,Applications, all published by Oxford University Press. He recently completed his last work, Confronting Inductive Inference (at last): Concepts from Aeronautical Engineering Can Lead to Advances in Social Psychology, with his assistant Zoe Lang. He served in the Merchant Marine during WW2 and during his life was a small boat sailor, horseman, fly fisherman and tennis player. He obtained a pilot's license in 1940. He married Virginia Redd in 1941; she preceded him in death in 2003. He will be missed tremendously by his two daughters, Pamela Hammond of Mukilteo, Washington, and Kathleen Armbruster of Mill Valley, California, four grandchildren, Peter Armbruster, Aaron Armbruster, Bo Earle and Erin Earle and five great grandchildren, Alex, Luke, Liam, Ellie and Grace. He will also be missed by his dear friend, Hedy Page. A memorial gathering will take place at The Academy in Boulder in early June. Donations may be made in his honor to Family Hospice in Boulder. Please contact Pam Hammond, pamhammond4@ gmail.com, for information.