Rate My Professor Paul Price

Price's primary research specializations include judgment and decision making, risk communication and judgment, informal quantitative reasoning, social judgment, forecasting, risk perception, and cognitive psychology. He directs the Judgment and Reasoning Lab and mentors students in competitive programs such as the Fresno State RISE Program and Bridges to Doctorate Program. Under his guidance, students have conducted research on topics like sample size bias, impostor phenomenon, and risk preferences, leading to conference presentations and co-authored manuscripts. His own publications number over 30, with key works including 'Spillover bias in social and nonsocial judgments of diversity and variability' (2023), 'Testing the Effects of a Utility Value Intervention in an Online Research Methods Course' (2022), 'Sample size bias in the estimation of means' (2010), 'A group size effect on personal risk judgments: Implications for unrealistic optimism' (2001), and 'Wishful Thinking in the Prediction of Competitive Outcomes' (2000). Price authored the open-access textbook 'Research Methods in Psychology,' with editions in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019, which has been adapted for use in numerous institutions. His scholarship has accumulated over 1,000 citations, impacting areas of social psychology, decision sciences, and pedagogy.