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Richard A. Chechile
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Contact Info
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Psychology Building
Room 206
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-3765
Email Professor
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Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1973
Richard Chechile received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from Case-Western
Reserve University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University
of Pittsburgh. Since 1973, he has been a member of the faculty at Tufts University.
He is the past president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. He is a
member of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, the Association for Psychological
Science, the Psychonomics Society, and the American Statistical Association.
Research interests include memory, mathematical psychology, cognitive psychology,
pattern recognition, statistics, human factors, and decision making. He has an active
program for developing and utilizing measurement methods for studying underlying
cognitive processes, e.g., separately measuring the storage and retrieval contributions
to the loss of memory. Professor Chechile teaches Advanced Statistics I and II,
Mathematical Psychology, Cognition, Perception-Cognition Laboratory, and
Memory and Retention.
Representative Publications
- Chechile, R. A. (2003).
Mathematical tools for hazard function analysis. Journal of Mathematical
Psychology, 47, 478-494.
- Chechile, R. A. (2006).
Memory hazard functions: A vehicle for theory development and test.
Psychological Review, 113, 31-56.
- Chechile, R.A. (2010).
Modeling storage and retrieval processes with clinical populations with
applications examining alcohol-induced amnesia and Korsakoff amnesia. Journal of
Mathematical Psychology, 54, 150-166.
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