Richard Chechile
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1973
richard.chechile@tufts.edu

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 and is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. He is a member of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, the American Psychological Society, the Psychonomics Society, the American Statistical Association, and the Mathematics Association of America.

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.