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About Me
About Me
I have a B.A. in psychology from Washington University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Michigan. As a professor of psychology at Fresno State, I teach introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, health psychology, statistics, and research methods (a topic on which I have written an online textbook).
As a scholar, I identify most strongly with the interdisciplinary field of judgment and decision making (JDM). I am a longtime member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Among my primary research interests are 1) risk perception, risk communication, and risk taking, 2) basic quantitative thinking, such as estimating distances or judging averages, 3) social judgment, such as judgments of attractiveness and diversity, and increasingly 4) replication, meta-analysis, publication bias, and open science practices.
I am also the coordinator of the undergraduate program in psychology at Fresno State and the coordinator of assessment activities in the College of Science and Mathematics. One of my near-term goals in this area is revamping the psychology major at Fresno State to make it a more coherent, practical, and meaningful experience.
Representative Publications
Representative Publications
These publications represent some of the major lines of research I have been engaged in.
Price, P. C., Halliday, D. M., & Smith, A. R. (2020). On cheerleaders, stunners, and sheer numbers: Effect of group size on judgments of average attractiveness. Under revision.
Shapiro, M. S., Price, P. C., & Mitchell, E. (2020). Carryover of domain dependent risk preferences in a novel gambling task. Judgment and Decision Making, 15(6), 1009-1023.
Price, P. C. (2018). Research Methods: Core concepts and skills for psychology (version 2.0). Flat World Knowledge.
Smith, A. R., Rule, S., & Price, P. C. (2017). Sample size bias in retrospective estimates of average duration. Acta Psychologica, 176, 39-46.
Price, P. C., Kimura, N. M., Smith, A. R., & Marshall, L. D. (2014). Sample size bias in judgments of perceptual averages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 1321.
Smith, A. R., & Price, P. C. (2010). Sample size bias in the estimation of means. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 499-503.
Price, P. C., & Matthews, T. V. (2009). From group diffusion to ratio bias: Effects of denominator and numerator salience on intuitive risk and likelihood judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 436-446.
Price, P. C. (2006). Are you as good a teacher as you think? Thought & Action, 22, 7-14.
Price, P. C., Smith, A. R., & Lench, H. C. (2006). The effect of target group size on risk judgments and unrealistic optimism: The more, the riskier. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 3, 382-398.
Recent Presentations
Recent Presentations
Dauderman, S. M., & Price, P. C. (2018, April). The effect of mental illness label on public stigma dimensions. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Hinojosa, B., & Price, P. C. (2018, April). Effect of group size on judgments of average attractiveness: The case of very unattractive people. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Price, P. C., Edmonds, K. A., Garcia, K., & Moxley, L. (2018). Can the subliminal numerical priming effect be replicated? Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Price, P. C., Ruiz, J., Bustos, J., & Silva, L. J. (2018, May). The spare fallacy in bowling: Greater confidence with less likelihood of success. Presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Sevillano, C., & Price, P. C. (2018, April). Masculinity and attention to health-threat information. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Van Fossen, J. A., & Price, P. C. (2018, April). Stronger, richer, and friendlier: Effect of average group size on judgments about the average group member. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Crouse, S., & Price, P. C. (2017, April). Icon arrays for communicating risk: Effects of icon arrangement and type on risky decision making. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.
Edmonds, K., & Price, P. C. (2017, April). The influence of irrelevant quantities on judgments of weight: Subliminal anchoring using numerosities. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.
Silva, L. J., & Price, P. C. (2017, April). Lipstick on a pig: Effects of anthropomorphizing animals on attitudes toward eating them. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.
Tobler, P., & Price, P. C. (2017, April). Ambiguous business: Effects of ambiguous probabilities on adolescent risky decision making. Presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.
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