Josh Fiechter

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I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Wright State University. I previously worked as a research psychologist at Air Force Research Laboratory and, before that, as a contractor, primarily supporting DoD-funded efforts. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I worked with Aaron Benjamin. I subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Nate Kornell at Williams College.

My research program can broadly be broken down into two areas.  First, I'm interested in enhancing human training outcomes, both through (a) computer-based learning techniques that help people of all abilities to successfully study and retain information (Fiechter & Benjamin, 2018; 2019) and (b) enhancing learners' metacognitive monitoring and control, or how people assess and modify their current levels of knowledge to meet their learning goals (Fiechter & Benjamin, 2017; Fiechter et al., 2016; Fiechter & Kornell, 2021a;  Tullis et al., 2018).  Second, I'm interested in applications of Bayesian multilevel models, including signal-detection models (Widmer et al., 2023), drift diffusion models (Hilton et al., 2021), models of human choice and ratings (Fiechter et al., 2022; Fiechter & Kornell, 2021a; Widmer et al., 2023), and nonlinear functions (Fiechter et al., 2021; Fiechter & Kornell, 2021b). I am furthermore interested in best practices with multilevel models for hypothesis testing (Fiechter, 2024).