Email: drmandel66@gmail.com
Phone: 416 635-2000 ext. 3146
DRDC Toronto
Thinking, Risk, and Intelligence Group
Adversarial Intent Section
1133 Sheppard Avenue West
P.O. Box 2000
Toronto, Ontario M3M 3B9
Canada
Dr. David R. Mandel is a senior defence scientist and Group Leader of the Thinking, Risk,
and Intelligence Group (TRIG) in the Adversarial Intent Section at DRDC Toronto, the human effectiveness
centre within Defence Research and Development Canada, a special operating agency of the Canadian
Department of National Defence. Dr. Mandel is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at the
University of Toronto. He was Associate Professor of Psychology from 2001-2004 at University of Victoria,
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Hertfordshire from 1998-2001, and SSHRC Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University from 1996-1998.
Dr. Mandel's
research focuses on descriptive, normative, and prescriptive aspects of human judgment, decision
making, thinking, and reasoning. His recent work is particularly concerned with expert judgment in the
area of intelligence analysis. Dr. Mandel is also interested in studying the social, political, and
psychological bases of collective violence and conflict.
Dr. Mandel served as the Canadian representative on the NATO Technical Team of the Human Factors and
Medicine Panel's Task Group 140 on Psychosocial, Organisational, and Cultural Aspects of
Terrorism from 2006-2009. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
(SPSSI), a past Editorial Board member of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and a current
member of the Editorial Board of Basic and Applied Social Psychology. He has twice served as an
ad-hoc review board member for NIH's Cognition and Perception section, has addressed The National
Academies Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for
National Security, and The National Academies Committee on Field Evaluation of Behavioral and Cognitive
Sciences-Based Methods and Tools for Intelligence and Counter-intelligence. In 2005, Dr. Mandel co-
edited The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking (Routledge) and he recently co-edited
Neuroscience of Decision Making (Psychology Press). Dr. Mandel's basic research in cognitive
psychology is funded by Discovery Grants (2002-2007, 2007-2012) from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is also the Principal Investigator of a Technology
Investment Fund project on warning intelligence and influence processes pertaining to intra- and inter-
state conflict (2007-2010) and the Principal Investigator of an Applied Research Program project on
understanding and augmenting human capabilities for intelligence analysis (2008-2012).
A particularly rewarding non-professional activity for Dr. Mandel was the editing of his mother's memoir
A Survivor's
Memoir, which was published by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
in 2001.
Please visit Dr. Mandel's website at Social Psychology
Network, with an up-to-date list and access to most of his publications.