Faculty

There are currently four faculty in the quantitative psychology program. In addition, several faculty in other areas have strong quantitative backgrounds and interests and interact with quantitative faculty and students on a regular basis.

Gyeongcheol Cho

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., McGill University, 2023. Advancing quantitative methods to explore and confirm the intricate relationships that exist between human behavioral, psychological, and biological variables, with a special emphasis on the measurement of theoretical constructs.


Michael DeKay

Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1994 - Judgment and decision making. Current work: risk perception, precautionary reasoning, information distortion in risky decisions, perceived fungibility of outcomes in repeated-play decisions.

 

Jolynn Pek

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012 - Quantifying uncertainty inherent in results obtained from fitting models to data, especially latent variable models.  Understanding the limits of statistical results and ascertaining statistical conclusion validity is central to her work.

 

Trisha Van Zandt

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. 1992 - Mathematical models of simple decision making in memory and cognition, quantitative methods. Current work: mathematical models of confidence in memory retrieval, and statistical methods for reaction time analysis.

 

Emeritus Faculty

 

Hal Arkes

Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971 - Human judgment and decision making. Current work: sunk cost effect, disaggregated vs. holistic methods of evaluation, decision making among seriously ill patients and their physicians. Editorial Board: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. Joint Appointment in the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies.


Nancy Betz

Ph.D., University of Minnesota - Measurement, with a focus on classical test theory, psychological testing, measurement and use of personality variables in vocational behavior and decision-making.

 

Robert Cudeck

Professor; Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1980 - Applications of structural equation models and random coefficient models to psychological data.

 

Paul De Boeck

Professor, Ph.D., KU Leuven (Belgium), 1977 - Generalized linear mixed models and item response theory with a focus on explanatory models, applications to intelligence, personality, and educational measurement.


Thomas E. Nygren

Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois. 1975 - Mathematical and cognitive psychology; mathematical models of decision making; measurement theory; psychological scaling. Current work: judgment and decision making; subjective uncertainty estimation; mental workload assessment; additive models and conjoint measurement.