Professor
BA (Lakehead), MA, PhD (Saskatchewan)
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Recipient, 2015 Excellence in Arts Teaching Award
Research interests
My research spans several topics in psychology, though my primary focus is on higher-level cognition. Recently, my lab’s research has predominantly focused on the interplay between intuitive and analytic processes supporting complex reasoning and decision making. These decisions may involve analogical, deductive, or probabilistic information. The lab has also extended its lines of inquiry to look at the role of intuitive and analytic processes in real world domains, such as creativity, moral judgments and values and one’s susceptibility to misinformation.
Selected publications
- Walker, A.C., Collins, R.N., Walker, H.E.K., Fugelsang, J.A., & Mandel, D.R. (in press). Everyone I don’t like is biased: Affective evaluations and the bias blind spot. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Tariq, H., Fugelsang, J., & Koehler, D. (2025). Using conventional framing to offset bias against algorithmic errors. Judgment and Decision Making.
- Littrell, S., Meyers, E., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2024). Not all bullshit pondered is tossed: Reflection decreases receptivity to some types of misleading information but not others. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38, e4154.
- Stewart, K., Risko, E.F., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2023). Response generation, not execution, influences feeling of rightness in reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 2379-2389.
- Majima, Y., Walker, A.C., Turpin, M.H., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2022). Culture as a moderator of epistemically suspect beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 745580.
- Walker, A.C., Turpin, M.H., Fugelsang, J.A, & Białek, M. (2021). Better the two devils you know, than the one you don’t: Predictability influences moral judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 104220.
- Meyers, E.A., Turpin, M.H., Białek, M., Fugelsang, J.A., & Koehler, D.(2020). Inducing feelings of ignorance makes people more receptive to expert (economist) opinion. Judgment and Decision Making, 15, 909-925.
- Maloney, E., Barr, N., Risko, E., & Fugelsang, J. (2019). Verbal working memory load dissociates common indices of the numerical distance effect: Implications for the study of numerical cognition. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 5, 337-357.
- Martin, N., Hughes, J., & Fugelsang, J. (2017). The role of experience, gender, and individual differences in statistical reasoning. Statistical Education Research Journal, 16, 454-475.
- Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A., Barr, N., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making, 10, 549-563.