Professor Gonzalez's research and teaching interests include research methodology, mathematical psychology, statistics, judgment and decision making, psychology and law, group dynamics, and social cognition. Current projects include well-being through the lifespan, development of new methods for classifying and predicting longitudinal trajectories, and decision neuroscience.

Primary Interests:

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Close Relationships
Group Processes
Health Psychology
Interpersonal Processes
Judgment and Decision Making
Law and Public Policy
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
Research Methods, Assessment
Social Cognition

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Close Relationships
Group Processes
Health Psychology
Interpersonal Processes
Judgment and Decision Making

Law and Public Policy
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
Research Methods, Assessment
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Judgment and Decision Laboratory
Interactive Map

Journal Articles:

Berman, M., Park, J., Gonzalez, R., Polk, T., Gehrke, A., Knafﬂa, S., & Jonides, J. (2010). Evaluating functional localizers; The case of the FFA. NeuroImage, 50, 56-71.
Biele, G., Rieskamp, J., & Gonzalez, R. (2009). Computational models for the combination of advice and individual learning. Cognitive Science, 33, 206-42.
Chua, H., Gonzalez, R., Taylor, S., & Liberzon, I. (2009). Neural bases of regret and disappointment. An fMRI study of emotions and decision making. NeuroImage, 47, 2031-2040.
Ersal (Hossoy), I., Papalambros, P., Gonzalez, R., & Aitken, T. (2011). Modeling customer perceptions of craftsmanship in vehicle interior design. Journal of Engineering Design, 22, 129-144.
Franks, M., Lucas, T., Stephens, M., Rook, K., & Gonzalez, R. (2010). Diabetes distress and depressive symptoms: A dyadic investigation of older patients and their spouses. Family Relations, 59, 599-610.
MacDonald, E., Gonzalez, R., & Papalambros, P. (2009). Construction of preference for crux and sentinel product attributes. Journal of Engineering Design, 20, 609-626.
MacDonald, E., Gonzalez, R., & Papalambros, P. (2009). Preference inconsistency in multidisciplinary design decision making. Journal of Mechanical Design, 131, 1-13.
Na, J., Grossman, I., Varnum, M., Kitayama, S., Gonzalez, R., & Nisbett, R. (2010). Cultural differences are not always reducible to individual differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 6192-6197.
Reid, T., Gonzalez, R., & Papalambros, P. (2010). Quantiﬁcation of perceived environmental friendliness for vehicle silhouette design. Journal of Mechanical Design, 132, 101010-1 to 101010-12.
Sacharin, V., Lee, F., & Gonzalez, R. (2009). Identities in harmony? Gender-work identity integration moderates frame-switching in cognitive processing. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33, 275-284.
Stern, E., Gonzalez, R., Welsh, R., & Taylor, S. (2010). Deliberation and decision: Neural correlates of uncertainty and underconﬁdence. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(23), 8032-8041.
Yilmaz, S., Gonzalez, R., & Seifert, C. (2010). Cognitive heuristics in design: Instructional strategies to increase creativity in idea generation. Artiﬁcial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing, 24, 335-56.

Courses Taught:

Design Science
Experimental Design, ANOVA, and Regression
Multivariate Statistics
Theories of Social Psychology

Design Science
Experimental Design, ANOVA, and Regression

Multivariate Statistics
Theories of Social Psychology

Richard Gonzalez
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
United States

Work: (734) 647-6785
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