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Sandra Schneider Picture Sandra Schneider

Department of Psychology

College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. Areas: Experimental
Office: BEH 341 Variable hours
Campus Mail: BEH 339 E-Mail: sandra@luna.cas.usf.edu
Voice Mail: (813) 974-2492 FAX: (813) 974-4617

Instruction
Highlights: Cognitive Psychology, Decision Making, and Research Methods.

Research Interests
Highlights: Issues of judgment and decision making, including how the way information is described or 'framed' influences decisions and behavior, the influence of framing in such contexts as making risky decisions, and people's metacognitive abilities or their ability to predict how well they perform at a variety of tasks.

Recent Publications
Marden, R. G., Schneider, S. L., & Holstrum, G. L. (in press). Instructional case: Using professional judgment in control environment evaluation. Issues in Accounting Education.

Marlowe, C. M., Schneider, S. L., & Nelson, C. E. (1996). Gender and attractiveness biases in hiring decisions: Are more experienced managers less biased? Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 11-21.

Schneider, S. L. (1995). Item difficulty, discrimination and the confidence-frequency effect in a categorical judgment task. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 61, 148-167.

Schneider, S. L. (1995). Contingencies and construction in decision making: Review of The Adaptive Decision Maker by J. W. Payne, J. R. Bettman, & E. J. Johnson. American Journal of Psychology, 108, 137-144.

Schneider, S. L. & Laurion, S. K. (1993). Do we know what we've learned from listening to the news? Memory & Cognition, 21, 198-209.

Schneider, S. L. (1992). Framing and conflict: Aspiriation level of contigency, the status quo, and current theories of risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1040-1057.
Recent Research Presentations
Schneider, S. L., Levin, I. P., & Gaeth, G. (1995). The three faces of framing: A typology of framing effects. Presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, California (November).

Wright, R. C. & Schneider, S. L. (1995). What motivates sexual offenders?: Extracting the meaning of sex to sexual offenders. A 90-minute seminar at the 14th Annual ATSA Research and Treatment Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana (October).

Schneider, S. L. & Wright, R. C. (1995). Sexual fantasies as sexual desires: An analysis of the motivations of sexual offenders. A three-hour seminar presented at the NOTA-ATSA (National Association for the Development of Work with Sex Offenders-The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers) International Conference, Cambridge, England (September).

Schneider, S. L., Wright, R. C., Caffray, C. M., Sellers, E. W., & Styers, R. D. (1995). Mapping cognitive representations of emotions: Asymmetries in relatedness ratings are rare. Presented at the Seventh American Psychological Society Annual Convention, New York, New York (June).
Recent Teaching-Related Presentations

Schneider, S. L. (1995). Getting women interested in science by making science interesting. An invited showcase presented at the National Science Foundation Conference on Women & Science: Celebrating Achiements, Charting Challenges, Washington, D. C. (December).

Schneider, S. L. (1995). Active learning in large classrooms: The use of index card assignments. Presented at the Second Annual American Psychological Society Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, New York, New York (June).

Schneider, S. L. (1995). The question is the answer: Learning by creating exam questions. Presented at the Seventeenth Annual Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL (January).
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Please direct questions to schneider@luna.cas.usf.edu
Last Updated November 29, 1996
Copyright & copy; 1996, Sandra Schneider