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Background
Gretchen Chapman grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has two sisters and had many animals, such as dogs and horses, around the house. Her interest in psychology was evident as early as 8th grade, when she completed her first scientific project at a science fair.

Education
She took her first psychology class at Bryn Mawr College in 1982 started working in Dick Gonzalez’s laboratory, doing experiments with goldfish on the topic of conditioning. She received her undergraduate degree and graduated in 1985 as Magma cum laude and with honors in research for psychology. She then attended graduate school at University of Pennsylvania. She started working in Bob Rescorla’s laboratory, again working with animals. When her results showed inconsistency, she then switched her focus to human judgment and decision making. For her postdoctoral degree in her specialty in decision making, she attended UPenn’s Wharton School under the mentorship of Eric J. Johnson.

Research
Gretchen Chapman’s research is a combination of judgment and decision making that is valuable in the health and medicine field. She analyzes the decision process that involved preventive health behavior like physical activity, dietary behavior, and taking vaccinations. Gretchen Chapman examines how people make decisions and various factors that influence the decision of an individual like how a person’s decision affects the decision and outcomes of the other and how risks and benefits of vaccines affects peoples’ decision In taking vaccination.

Professional Experience
Gretchen Chapman's first job was at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. While there she worked with Arthur Elstein in Clinical Decision Making. After working there for a few years, she decided to move closer to where her husband lived, in Philadelphia. She chose to switch to Rutgers University. She works in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers. Chapman works with graduate students to study how hypertension medication, cholesterol-lowering medication, and flu vaccines work together.

Awards
1996 Division of Experimental Psychology, American Psychological Association award for an outstanding young investigator published in Journal of Experimental Psychology 1998/99 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Applied Research 2000 Society for Medical Decision Making Award for Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator, awarded for the paper: Chapman, G.B., Nelson, R., and Hier, D. (1999). Familiarity and time preferences: Decision making about treatments for migraine headaches and Crohn’s disease. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5, 17-34. 2007 Fellow, American Psychological Association 2009 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science 2011 Distinguished Research Award, New Jersey Psychological Association 2013-14 President, Society for Judgment and Decision Making.