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Richard A. Chechile
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Contact Info
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Psychology Building
Room 206
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-3765
Email Professor
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Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1973
Richard Chechile received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from
Case-Western Reserve University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from the
University of Pittsburgh. Since 1973, he has been a member of the faculty at
Tufts University. He is the past president of the Society for Mathematical
Psychology and is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Mathematical
Psychology. He is a member of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, the
American Psychological Society, the Psychonomics Society, the American
Statistical Association, and the Mathematics Association of America.
Research interests include memory, mathematical psychology,
cognitive psychology, pattern recognition, statistics, human factors, and
decision making. He has an active program for developing and utilizing
measurement methods for studying underlying cognitive processes, e.g.,
separately measuring the storage and retrieval contributions to the loss of
memory. Professor Chechile teaches Advanced Statistics I and II, Mathematical
Psychology, Cognition, Perception-Cognition Laboratory, and Memory and
Retention.
Representative Publications
- Chechile, R. A. (2003). Mathematical tools for
hazard function analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 47,
478-494.
- Chechile, R. A. (in press).
New multinomial models for the Chechile-Meyer task. Journal of Mathematical
Psychology.
- Chechile, R. A., & Butler, S.
F. (2003). Reassessing the testing of generic utility models for mixed gambles.
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 26, 55-76.
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