Raymond S. Nickerson was an American

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

and author. He was a senior vice president at BBN Technologies, from which he retired, and spent time as a research professor at

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in the Psychology Department. He authored several books and was the founding editor of '' The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied''.https://frontpage.ase.tufts.edu/ase/psychology/faculty/bios/nickerson.htm Topics he wrote about include:

confirmation bias Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring ...

null hypothesis significance testing A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data at hand sufficiently support a particular hypothesis. Hypothesis testing allows us to make probabilistic statements about population parameters. ...

, the exchange paradox the boy or girl paradox and

long-term memory Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model in which informative knowledge is held indefinitely. It is defined in contrast to short-term and working memory, which persist for only about 18 to 30 seconds. Long-t ...

Work

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

* 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

* 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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