User:Alexander L. Davis
Contact Info
- Alexander L. Davis
- Carnegie Mellon University
- 5000 Forbes Avenue
- Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I work in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. I learned about OpenWetWare from Wikipedia and John Miller.
Education
- 2012, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Behavioral Decision Research
- 2009, MS, Carnegie Mellon University, Behavioral Decision Research
- 2007, BS, Northern Arizona University, Psychology
Research Interests and Lab Notebooks
Psychology of Methodology
What are the important psychological aspects of designing, implementing, interpreting, and reporting experimental research?
Human Altruism
How do humans behave when they can prevent harm to others by incurring it on themselves?
Human Behavior and Electricity Consumption
What are the cognitive and motivational factors involved in understanding one's electricity consumption?
Methodology of Psychology
How can prescriptive approaches to scientific research help our cognitive and social limitations?
Human and Artificial Intelligence
How can human performance be elucidated by comparing it to modern artificial intelligence methods. For examaple, how does human knowledge representation compare to an ontology? Applications include drug discovery.
Courses
Research101
My take on everything you need to know to complete an experimental research project.
Stats for Social Sciences
Rest assured there will be no p-values.
Advanced Stats
Rest assured there will be no p-values.
Intro to Cognitive Psychology
Human thinking, reasoning, perception, etc.
Intro to Social Psychology
Motivation, social cognition, etc.
Intro to Experimental Economics
Real human behavior in microeconomics and game theory.
Computer Science for Social Sciences
Python, Octave, R; Stats; Complexity Theory
Publications
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Preparing for smart grid technologies: A behavioral decision research approach to understanding consumer expectations about smart meters
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421511009244