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Research Interests:
I am a cognitive psychologist interested in how judgment, memory, and inference interact with 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 conclusions about correlational
and causal relationships. My research is aimed at contributing to an explanation of how beliefs are distributed across populations.
Thus, the work has broader impacts with respect to social and political cognition. I welcome new students who are interested
in cognitive science and who are willing to explore the mathematical underpinnings of cognition, as well as its socio-political
implications. I am also interested in sponsoring students who would like to pursue dual degrees in psychology and computer
science. Further information can be found on my lab web page (above).
Taking Graduate Students? Yes Sponsoring Undergraduate Research? Yes |
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Selected Publications:
Doherty, M. E., Anderson, R. B., Kelley, A. M., and Albert, J. H. (2009). Probabilistically valid inference of covariation
from a single x,y observation when univariate characteristics are known. Cognitive science, 33, 183-205.
Anderson, R. B., Doherty, M. E., & Friedrich, J. C. (2008). Sample size and correlation inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 929-944.
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.
Anderson, R. B., Tweney, R., Rivardo, M., & Duncan, S. (1997). Need probability affects retention: A direct demonstration.
Memory & Cognition, 25, 867-872.
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