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Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior

RICHARD B. ANDERSON

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

PHONE	(419) 372-9908
Email	randers@ bgnet.bgsu.edu
OFFICE	251 Psychology
PERSONAL PAGE	http://personal.bgsu.edu/~randers/

Research Interests:

Cognitive ecology of judgment, memory, and inference
Mechanisms of intuitive statistical cognition
Applications to understanding superstitious beliefs and social stereotypes

I am interested in how judgment, memory, and inference processes interact with, and sometimes adapt to, the informational environment. Thus, my work can be construed as an ecological approach to the study of cognition. Currently, I am pursuing ecological and mechanistic accounts of how people informally and intuitively make use of small samples to draw general conclusions about specific causal and correlational relationships. The work is applicable to understanding the formation of superstitious beliefs and social stereotypes.

Selected Publications:

Anderson, R .B., Doherty, M. E., & Friedrich, J. (2005). Statistical/ecological factors in the effects of sample size on correlational inference. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Anderson, R. B., & Doherty, M. E. (in press). Sample size and the detection of means: A signal detection account. Memory & Cognition.

Anderson, R. B., Doherty, M. E., Berg, N. D, & Friedrich, J. C. (2005). Sample size and the detection of correlation -- A signal detection account: Comment on Kareev (2000) and Juslin and Olsson (2005). Psychological Review, 112, 268-279.

Courses Taught:

PSYC 101. General Psychology
PSYC 290. Introduction to Laboratory Methods in Psychology
PSYC 321. Cognitive Psychology I
PSYC 712. Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 780. Cognitive Research Methods

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