Anthony Bishara

Professor of Psychology

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, Washington University

B.A. in Psychology and Music Theory, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests

I am a cognitive and quantitative psychologist. I conduct research on how people judge and misjudge data and graphs, on pseudo-scientific beliefs, and on human memory.

Courses Taught

  • PSYC 103: Introduction to Psychological Science
  • PSYC 211: Psychological Statistics
  • PSYC 215: Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYC 301: Psychology and Pseudoscience
  • PSYC 390: Advanced Psychological Statistics
  • PSYC 468: Advanced Cognitive Psychology with Lab
  • FYSE 132: Decision Science

Selected Publications

Undergraduate student coauthors are marked with an asterisk.

*Guthrie, E., & Bishara, A. J. (2025). When one graph judgment leads to another: Signal detection analysis of base rate effects. Judgment and Decision Making, 20, https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2025.4   

Hindy, N.C., Bishara, A. J., & Pani, J. R. (2025). Described neural connections enhance classroom learning of neuroanatomy. Anatomical Sciences Education, 18, 642–656. https://doi.org/10.1002/ase.70051  

Ossola, P., Garrett, N., Biso, L., Bishara, A. J., & Marchesi, C. (2023). Anhedonia and sensitivity to punishment in schizophrenia, depression and opiate use disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 330, 319-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.02.120  

Bishara, A. J., Li, J., & *Conley, C. (2021). Informal versus formal judgment of statistical models: The case of normality assumptions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1164–1182. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01879-z  

Bishara, A. J., *Peller, J., & Galuska, C. M. (2021). Misjudgment of interrupted time-series graphs due to serial dependence: Replication of Matyas and Greenwood (1990). Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 687-708. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500007786  

Millar, P. R., Balota, D. A., Bishara, A. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2018). Multinomial models reveal deficits of two distinct controlled retrieval processes in aging and very mild Alzheimer disease. Memory & Cognition, 46, 1058–1075. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0821-9     

Bishara, A. J., Li, J., & *Nash, T. (2018). Asymptotic confidence intervals for the Pearson correlation via skewness and kurtosis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 71, 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12113   

Greenberg, D. L., Bishara, A. J., & *Mugayar-Baldocchi, M. A. (2017). Anchoring effects on early autobiographical memories. Memory, 25, 1303-1308. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1297833  

Bishara, A. J., & Hittner, J. B. (2017). Confidence intervals for correlations when data are not normal.  Behavior Research Methods, 49, 294–309. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0702-8