Andy DeSoto

Graduate Student, Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Research field: Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
human memory, metacognition, confidence, law, technology, education

Publications

Thesis (1)
- Kurt Andrew DeSoto (2011) Often wrong but never in doubt: Categorized lists produce confident false memories..
  http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/540
  
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Awards and Grants

May 2011

Liberman Fellow
Apr 2010

Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Biographical Information

I am a third year graduate student in the Behavior, Brain, & Cognition program of the Department of Psychology at Washington University. I am currently investigating high confidence false memories for members of semantic categories, and am interested in the ways this methodology is similar to and different from other procedures for evoking false memories in the cognitive laboratory.

More generally, I am interested in human memory and its applications to education and law, metacognition, motivation and effort, and the relationship between psychology and technology.

I am a Junior Liberman Fellow at Washington University, which means that I give regular seminars to fellow graduate students about how to integrate technology into their research, teaching, and personal development. I am also an Association for Psychological Science Campus Representative and served as the Membership and Volunteers Officer for the Student Caucus from 2010-2011.