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Barbara A. Drescher
I live in the greater Los Angeles area with my husband, two children, and a few pets. |
As a lecturer at California State University, Northridge, I primarily taught courses in quantitative/experimental research methods and topics in cognitive psychology. I resigned after the spring 2011 semester.
My Research Interests include:
- Reasoning and Decision-Making
- Understanding of Probabilities
- Objectivity & Tenacity of Beliefs
- Perception and Visual Attention
- Entitlement Attitudes
- Self-Assessment and Metacognition
- Human Responses to Color
In addition to this blog, I write occasionally for Swift, the blog of the James Randi Educational Foundation, as well as serve on an advisory board for the foundation’s education efforts.
For the Record
I hope my posts over the years will include some discussions of religion and politics, but these are not my primary interests. To keep from repeating myself and to allow readers to find quick answers to the questions they may have about my perspectives, I have summarized my political and religious views (as they stand today) on other pages. As always, I reserve the right to change these views and you will find me open to criticism of them. Do not call me a hypocrite if I flip, but if I defy my views without changing them, call me on it!
Some presentations of interesting research that I have either conducted or mentored:
Academic Entitlement Plus Teaching To The Test: Recipe For Ignorance presented at the Western Psychological Association annual convention 2010
The Complex Path From Color to Emotion presented at the Association for Psychological Sciences annual convention 2008
The Taste of Color presented at the Western Psychological Association annual convention 2008
