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Raymond S. Nickerson

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Raymond S. Nickerson was an American psychologist and author.[1] He was a senior vice president at BBN Technologies, from which he retired, and spent time as a research professor at Tufts University in the Psychology Department. He authored several books and was the founding editor of The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.[2]

Topics he wrote about include: confirmation bias, null hypothesis significance testing, the exchange paradox the boy or girl paradox and long-term memory

Work

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Books:

  • The Teaching of Thinking (with David N. Perkins & Edward E. Smith) (1985) Erlbaum.
  • Using Computers: Human Factors in Information Systems (1986) MIT Press.
  • Reflections on Reasoning (1986) Erlbaum.
  • Looking Ahead: Human Factors Challenges in a Changing World (1992) Erlbaum.
  • Psychology and Environmental Change (2003) Erlbaum.
  • Cognition and Chance: The Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning (2004) Erlbaum.
  • Aspects of Rationality: Reflections on What it Means to be Rational and Whether we are (2008) Psychology Press.
  • Mathematical Reasoning: Patterns, Problems, Conjectures and Proofs (2010) Psychology Press.
  • Conditional Reasoning: The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of "If" (2015) Oxford University Press.

Membership

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  • Fellow:
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • American Psychological Association
    • Association for Psychological Science
    • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
    • Society of Experimental Psychologists

Selected works

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  • 1996. "Hempel's Paradox and Wason's Selection Task: Logical and Psychological Puzzles of Confirmation," Thinking and Reasoning 2, 1-31
  • 1998. "Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises," Review of General Psychology vol. 2, no. 2, 175-220
  • 2009, with F. S. Butler & M. Carlin. "Empathy and Knowledge Projection," in Decety & Ickes (Eds.), Social Neuroscience of Empathy (pp. 43–56). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

References

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  1. ^ "Obituary for Raymond S. Nickerson at Bedford Funeral Home". www.bedfordfuneralhome.com. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  2. ^ https://frontpage.ase.tufts.edu/ase/psychology/faculty/bios/nickerson.htm