Burt Thompson
Professor of Psychology, Niagara University
Research
My students and I conduct research on the general topics of human learning, memory, and perception. We are currently studying various factors that affect face perception, identification accuracy, and eyewitness memory. We also investigate how people interpret scientific evidence and statistical results. Our lab is located in room 107 of the DePaul science building.

Recent presentations and publications from our lab, with undergraduate student names in bold:
  • Radell, M. L., & Thompson, W. B. (2024). Drawing attention to previous studies can reduce confidence in a new research finding, even when confidence should increase. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Hoogeveen, S., et al. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 237-283.
  • Thompson, W. B. & Radell, M. L. (2021). Acceptance of anomalous research findings: Explaining treatment implausibility reduces belief in far-fetched results. PeerJ, 9. Article e12532.
  • Thompson, B., & Radell, M. L. (2021, May). Student acceptance of anomalous research findings: Explaining treatment implausibility reduces belief in far-fetched results. Presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
  • Krast, C., & Corchado, M. (2021, April). Eyewitness confidence: Predicting recognition of an obscured or unseen face. Presented at the virtual meeting of the Western New York Undergraduate Psychology Conference.
  • Thompson, W. B., Garry, A., Taylor, J., & Radell, M. L. (2020). Is one study as good as three? College graduates seem to think so, even if they took statistics classes. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 19(2), 143-160.