Rick Mehta
psychology
Acadia University
Canada
Biography
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Acadia University B.Sc. (Honours), University of Toronto M.Sc., McGill University Ph.D., McGill University
Research Interest
My research focus is in the area of decision making. Some of this research is focused on the basic mechanisms involved in decision making. For example, a paper that I have resubmitted for publication examined the extent to which the Berlin Numeracy Test (an objective measure of how well people work with numbers) predicts performance on a collection of heuristics and biases tasks. Other research has examine the role of decision making in health or social contexts. More recently, I have become interested in studying viewpoint diversity within universities and am particularly interested in assessing to what extent the lack of viewpoint diversity is a problem in Canadian psychology departments.
Publications
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Williams, D.A., Gawel, J.D., Reimer, D.S., & Mehta, R. (2005). Resistance to interference in complex negative patterning. Learning and Behavior, 33, 417-427.
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Mehta, R., & Russell, E. (2009). Effects of pretraining on acquisition of novel configural discriminations in human predictive learning. Learning and Behavior, 37, 311-324.
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Mehta, R. & Wadden H. (resubmitted). Roles of numeracy, cognitive reflection, and information processing styles in heuristics and biases. Thinking & Reasoning.
