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Research Interests:
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.
Taking Graduate Students? Yes Sponsoring Undergraduate Research? Yes |
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Selected Publications:
Anderson, R. B. (2001). The power law as an emergent property. Memory & Cognition, 29, 1061-1068.
Anderson, R. B., & Doherty, M. E. (2007). Sample size and the detection of means: A signal detection account. Memory & Cognition, 35, 50-58.
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.
Doherty, M. E., Anderson, R. B., Angott, A. M., and Klopfer, D. S. (in press). The perception of scatterplots. Perception & Psychophysics.
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