[4] Baron's work has occurred primarily within the field of judgment and decision making, a multi-disciplinary area that applies psychology to problems in economics, law, business, and public policy.
In this text, Baron covers such topics as risk, bioethics, Bayes' Theorem, utility measurement, decision analysis, and values.
The text takes a broad-based, introductory-level view to the field of psychological decision theory.
[8] Additionally, he is the editor of Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents and Psychological Perspectives on Justice (with Barbara Mellers).
Baron's Ph.D. students have included Rebecca Treiman, Hal Pashler and Jonathan Haidt.