Anthony Bishara
Professor of Psychology
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology, Washington University
B.A. in Psychology and Music Theory, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests
I am a cognitive and quantitative psychologist. I conduct research on how people judge and misjudge data and graphs, on pseudo-scientific beliefs, and on human memory.
Courses Taught
- PSYC 103: Introduction to Psychological Science
- PSYC 211: Psychological Statistics
- PSYC 215: Cognitive Psychology
- PSYC 301: Psychology and Pseudoscience
- PSYC 390: Advanced Psychological Statistics
- PSYC 468: Advanced Cognitive Psychology with Lab
- FYSE 132: Decision Science
Selected Publications
Undergraduate student coauthors are marked with an asterisk.
*Guthrie, E., & Bishara, A. J. (2025). When one graph judgment leads to another: Signal detection analysis of base rate effects. Judgment and Decision Making, 20,
Hindy, N.C., Bishara, A. J., & Pani, J. R. (2025). Described neural connections enhance classroom learning of neuroanatomy. Anatomical Sciences Education, 18, 642–656.
Ossola, P., Garrett, N., Biso, L., Bishara, A. J., & Marchesi, C. (2023). Anhedonia and sensitivity to punishment in schizophrenia, depression and opiate use disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 330, 319-328.
Bishara, A. J., Li, J., & *Conley, C. (2021). Informal versus formal judgment of statistical models: The case of normality assumptions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1164–1182.
Bishara, A. J., *Peller, J., & Galuska, C. M. (2021). Misjudgment of interrupted time-series graphs due to serial dependence: Replication of Matyas and Greenwood (1990). Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 687-708.
Millar, P. R., Balota, D. A., Bishara, A. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2018). Multinomial models reveal deficits of two distinct controlled retrieval processes in aging and very mild Alzheimer disease. Memory & Cognition, 46, 1058–1075.
Bishara, A. J., Li, J., & *Nash, T. (2018). Asymptotic confidence intervals for the Pearson correlation via skewness and kurtosis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 71, 167-185.
Greenberg, D. L., Bishara, A. J., & *Mugayar-Baldocchi, M. A. (2017). Anchoring effects on early autobiographical memories. Memory, 25, 1303-1308.
Bishara, A. J., & Hittner, J. B. (2017). Confidence intervals for correlations when data are not normal. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 294–309.