Richard Morey, Ph.D.

Richard Morey

2017

Psychonomic Society

Winner

Richard Morey, Ph.D.

Cardiff University

"How Do You Know? Rethinking the Way Psychologists Analyze Data"

Dr. Morey’s work focuses on the development and use of inferential methods in science in general, and psychology in particular. His work identifies alternative statistical and modelling techniques to replace known problematic ones that are in widespread use. He does so by revealing the differences and commonalities across approaches, underlying assumptions, and what the advantages are of the newer approaches by applying them to specific examples within the relevant field. The work is timely, innovative, and impactful. Dr. Morey’s work and ideas have sparked intense discussions both within the literature and the more modern domain of social media, where it has raised awareness of behavioral science and its importance more broadly.

Dr. Morey is the author of over 50 articles and book chapters, and in 2011, he was awarded a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Innovational Research Scheme: Veni for work in cognitive psychology.

Dr. Morey is regularly active on social media championing statistical modeling and Bayesian interference, as the author of the BayesFactor software. He is a Digital Associate Editor of the Psychonomic Society regularly writing articles for broader public consumption.

Dr. Morey is a senior lecturer at the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. He previously was an assistant professor at the University of Groningen and earned his doctorate in psychology – cognition and neuroscience from the University of Missouri-Columbia.