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Address: Department
of Psychology University
of Alberta Edmonton,
AB T6G 2E9 Canada |
W: (780) 492-4604 F: (780) 492-1768 |
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Education: Ph.D. B.A. |
University
of Chicago, 1985, Behavioral Sciences. University
of Chicago, 1977, Linguistics, with General Honors. |
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Positions: 2002-present 2001 1997-2002 1998 1992-1997 1989-1992 1985-1989 |
Professor,
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta Erskine
Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New
Zealand Associate
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta Visiting
Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University Bristol,
Bristol England Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta Postdoctoral
Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Carnegie
Mellon University Research
Staff Member, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, NY. |
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Awards: 2002 1989-1991 1979-1981 1978-1979 |
National
Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Traineeship Sloan
Foundation Graduate Research Assistantship National
Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Fellowship |
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Grants: 2001-2004 2000-2001 1997-2001 1993-1997 1993-1994 1992-1993 |
Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Individual Operating
Grant. Anchors as Seeds: A
decomposition of the post-comparison anchoring effect. $120,000. The Center
for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human
Services and Georgia Institute of Technology. Seed Grant. Improving vaccine risk information:
Metric and mappings for probabilities (in collaboration with Prof A.
Bostrom, Georgia Institute of Technology). $15,000
(US).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada. Individual Operating Grant. Estimating Event Frequencies: A Multiple-strategy Perspective.
$103,200. Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Individual Operating
Grant. Strategy Choice in Frequency
Estimation. $88,000. Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Equipment Award.
$15,700. Central
Research Fund, University of Alberta. Operating Grant. Strategy Choice, Item Distinctiveness, and Frequency Estimation.
$4,800. |
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Teaching
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Psychology
104 Psychology
258 Psychology
350 Psychology
356 Psychology
403 Psychology
450 Psychology
458 Psychology
560 |
Introductory
Psychology (undergraduate) Introduction
to Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate) Human
Memory (undergraduate) Laboratory
Methods in Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate) Special
Topics: Autobiographical Memory (undergraduate) Topics
in Memory and Problem-solving (undergraduate) Advanced
Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate) Memory
and Cognition (graduate) |
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Professional
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Ad hoc
reviewer: Member: |
ACM
Transactions on Office Information Systems; Applied Cognitive Psychology;
Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science; Canadian Journal of Experimental
Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Interacting with Computers; Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Applied; European Journal of Social Psychology;
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology: Attitudes & Social Cognition; Memory; Memory &
Cognition; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society; Psychological Review,
Psychological Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Public Opinion
Quarterly American
Psychological Association American
Psychological Society Society
for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Psychonomic
Society Society
for Judgment and Decision Making |
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Research Interests: Estimation,
problem solving, and decision-making Long-term
memory Cognitive
aspects of survey methodology |
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Publications:
Schweickart, O. & Brown, N. R. (in press). Magnitude comparison extended: How lack of knowledge informs comparative judgments under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Zebian, S. & Brown, N. R. (in press). Living in history in Lebanon: The influence of chronic social upheaval on the organization of autobiographical memory. Memory. Brown, N. R., Hansen, T. G. B., Lee, P. J., Vanderveen, S. A., & Conrad, F. G. (2012). Historically-defined autobiographical periods: Their origins and implications. In D. Berntsen & D. Rubin (Eds.). Understanding autobiographical memory: Theories and approaches (pp. 160-180). Cambridge: Cambridge. Svob, C. & Brown, N. R. (2012). Intergenerational transmission of the reminiscence bump and biographical conflict knowledge. Psychological Science, 23, 1404-1409. Uzer, T., Lee, P. J., & Brown, N. R. (2012). On the prevalence of directly retrieved autobiographical memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 38, 1296-1308. Brown, N. R. & Tan, S. (2011). Magnitude comparison revisited: An alternative approach to binary decision making under uncertainty. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18, 392-398. Brown, N. R. & Lee, P. J. (2010). Public events and the organization of autobiographical memory: An overview of the Living-in-History Project. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2, 133–149. Brown, N. R., Lee. P. J., Krslak, M., Conrad, F. G., Hansen, T., Havelka, J. & Reddon, J. (2009). Living in history: How war, terrorism, and natural disaster affect the organization of autobiographical memory. Psychological Science, 20, 399-405. Murray, K. & Brown, N. R. (2009). A feature-based inference model of numerical estimation: The split-seed effect. Acta Psychologica, 131, 221-234. Brown, N. R (2008). How metastrategic considerations influence the selection of frequency estimation strategies. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 3-18. Bogart, L. M., Walt, L. C., Pavlovic, J. D., Ober, A. J., Brown, N.R., & Kalichman, S. C. (2007). Cognitive strategies affecting recall of sexual behavior among high-risk men and women. Health Psychology. 26, 787-793 . Brown, N. R., Williams, R. L., Barker, E.T., & Galambos, N. L. (2007). Estimating frequencies of emotions and actions: A web-based diary study. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 259-276.
Brown, N. R. (2005). On the prevalence of event clusters in autobiographical memory. Social Cognition, 23, 35-6. Friedman, A., Kerkman, D., Brown, N. R. , Stea, D., & Cappello, H. (2005). Cross-cultural similarities and differences in North Americans' geographical location judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 1054-1060. Lee, P
Conrad, F Kerkman, D.,
Friedman, A., Brown, N. R., Stea, & Carmicheal, A. (2003). The
development of geographic categories and biases. Journal of Experimental
Child Psychology, 84, 265-285. Lee, P Olsen, G Pracejus, J Brown, N Brown, N. R.
(2002b). Real-world estimation: Estimation modes and seeding effects. In B.
H. Ross (Ed.). Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Vol. 41 (pp
321-360). New York: Academic Press. Brown, N.
R., Cui, X., & Gordon, R. (2002). Estimating
national populations: Cross-cultural differences and availability effects. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 811-827. Friedman, A., Brown, N. R., & McGaffey, A.
(2002). A basis for bias in geographical judgements. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 151-159. Friedman,
A., Kerkman, D., & Brown, N. R. (2002). Spatial
location judgments: A cross-national comparison of estimation bias in
subjective North American geography. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 615-623. Westbury, C,
Buchanan, L., & Brown, N. R. (2002). Sounds of the neighborhood: False
memories and the structure of the phonological lexicon. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 621-651. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (2001). Seeds
aren’t anchors. Memory &
Cognition, 29, 405-412. Brown, N.
R., Buchanan, L., & Cabeza, R. (2000). Estimating the frequency of
nonevents: The role of recollection failure in false recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 7, 684-691. Friedman,
A., & Brown, N. R. (2000a). Reasoning about geography. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General. 129, 193-219. Friedman,
A., & Brown, N. R. (2000b). Updating geographical knowledge: Principles of
coherence and inertia. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 900-914. Conrad, F. G, Brown, N. R., & Dashen, M. (2000). Estimating the frequency of
events from unnatural categories. American
Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Methods
Research. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Brown, N. R.
& Friedman, A. (1999) Assessing and improving
geographical beliefs: A cognitive approach. Research in Geographic Education, 1, 1-13. Brown, N. R.
& Sinclair, R. C. (1999). Estimating number of lifetime sexual partners:
Men and women do it differently. Journal
of Sex Research, 36, 292-297. Buchanan,
L., Brown, N. R., Cabeza, R. & Maitson, C. (1999). False memories and
semantic lexicon arrangement. Brain
& Language, 68, 172-177. Brown, N. R.
& Schopflocher, D. (1998a). Event clusters: An organization of personal
events in long-term memory. Psychological
Science, 9, 470-475. Brown, N. R.
& Schopflocher, D. (1998b). Event cueing, event clusters, and the
temporal distribution of autobiographical memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12, 305-319. Conrad, F.,
Brown, N. R., & Cashman, E. (1998). Strategies for estimating behavioral
frequency in survey interviews. Memory, 6, 339-366. Prohaska,
V., Brown, N. R., & Belli, R. (1998). Forward telescoping: The question
matters. Memory, 6, 455-465. Brown, N. R.
(1997). Context memory and the selection of frequency estimation strategies. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 898-914. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (1996). Long-term benefits of seeding the
knowledge-base. Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review, 3, 385-388. Conrad, F.
G. & Brown, N. R. (1996).
Estimating frequency: A multiple strategy perspective. In D. Herrmann,
M. Johnson, C. McEvoy, C. Hertzog, & P. Hertel (Eds.), Basic and applied memory: Research on
Practical Aspects of Memory, Vol. 2 (pp. 167-178). Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum. Brown, N. R.
(1995). Estimation strategies and the judgment of event frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1539-1553. Brown, N. R.
(1994). Quantitative estimation: From the real world to the psychology lab
[Abstract]. Canadian Psychology, 35, 102-103. Conrad, F.
G. & Brown, N. R. (1994). Strategies for estimating category frequency:
Effects of abstractness and distinctiveness. American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on
Survey Methods Research (pp. 1345-1350). Alexandria, VA: American
Statistical Association. Brown, N. R.
(1993). Response times, retrieval strategies, and the investigation of
autobiographical memory. In T. K. Srull & R. S. Wyer (Eds.), Mental representation of trait and
autobiographical knowledge of the self: Advances in social cognition, Volume
V (pp. 61-68). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (1993). Metrics and mappings: A framework for
understanding real-world quantitative estimation. Psychological Review, 100, 511-534. Conrad, F.
G., Brown, N. R., & Cashman, E. (1993). How the memorability of events
affects frequency judgments. American
Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Methods
Research, Volume 2 (pp. 1058-1063). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical
Association. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (1992). The role of availability in the estimation of
national populations. Memory &
Cognition, 20, 406-412. Campbell, R.
L., Brown, N. R., & DiBello, L. A. (1992). The programmer's burden:
Developing expertise in programming. In R. R. Hoffman (Ed.), The cognition of experts: Empirical
approaches to knowledge evaluation (pp. 269-294). New York: Springer. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (1991a). Subjective organization of U.S. presidents. American Journal of Psychology, 104,
1-33. Brown, N. R.
& Siegler, R. S. (1991b). Understanding and improving real-world
quantitative estimation. Proceedings of
the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
209-215). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Brown, N. R.
(1990). Organization of public events in long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 119, 297-314. Brown, N.
R., & Vosburgh, A. M. (1989). Evaluating the accuracy of a
large-vocabulary speech recognition system. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting (pp.
296-300). Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors Society. Brown, N.
R., Shevell, S. K., & Rips, L. J. (1986). Public events and their
personal context. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Autobiographical
memory (pp. 137-158). New York: Cambridge University Press. Brown, N.
R., Rips, L. J., & Shevell, S. K. (1985). Subjective dates of natural
events in very long-term memory. Cognitive
Psychology, 17, 139-177. Technical Reports Vosburgh, A.
M., & Brown, N. R. (1989). An
evaluation of a self-pacing enrollment interface for a large-vocabulary
speech recognition system. (Research Report RC 14373). Yorktown Heights,
NY: IBM. Brown, N.
R., & Brown, S. I. (1987). Estimating
sales for Fortune 500 companies. (Research Report 12475). Yorktown
Heights, NY: IBM. |
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Committee PhD
Committee PhD
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Committee PhD
Committee PhD
Committee PhD
Committee MA
Committee Graduate
Research Qualifying
Exam Committee Qualifying
Exam Committee Qualifying
Exam Committee Qualifying
Exam Committee |
Cory Tam Connie Svob Oliver Schweickart Tugba Uzer Kyle
Murray Peter
Lee Michael
Hoff Anthony
Chaston Phillip Reimer Felicia Nordlund Melissa
Forth Katherine
Starzyk Walter
Smith Patricia
Dmytriw Sean
Moore Barbara
Waldie Tenaha
O’Reilly Alex
Soldat Andrew
MacQuistan Leslie
Twilley David Hall Daniel
Pilon Mike
Thibodeau Jeffrey
Stepnisky Leslie
Twilley Katherine
Robinson Ronald
Kelly Corrine
Zimmerman |
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2001-2001 1996-1997 2013-present 2009-2011 2000-2002
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Arts
Council Representative Graduate
Admissions Cognitive
Search Cognitive
Neuroscience Search Social
Cognition Search Linguists
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1994/95, 2000/01 1995/96,
1996/97 1993/94 1998 |
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Other Service: Coordinator,
Department of Psychology’s Distinguished Speaker Series |
2001/02
(on going) |
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