Jill L Quilici
Professor

Brief Biography

My research interests lie in the area of cognitive processes: decision making, problem solving, expertise, and analogical reasoning. My current primary research interest is in decision making. In particular, I am interested in how people make decisions about their health. At a theoretical level, I am interested in the decision-making process and what factors influence our decisions that impact our health. At a practical level, I am interested in studying potential interventions designed to promote healthier decisions. For example, how can we help people to make healthier food choices or help people to make science-based decisions about whether to get vaccinations?

More generally, I am interested in how we can use our knowledge of human cognition to design interventions in practical settings. What can we do to promote effective decision-making that will be consistent our goals in health settings? In educational settings? How can we help people to learn from past experiences and use them effectively to make decisions or solve problems in new situations?

Research assistants in my lab will get experience assisting with literature review, data collection, data scoring, data entry, and data analysis. In addition, students who are motivated to be more active in the lab can be involved in designing research studies, designing stimulus materials for experiments, preparing and presenting research findings at conferences, and preparing research findings for publication.

Research 

Cognitive Psychology

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