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Personal profile
Overview
Current: Professor Emerita of Mathematical Psychology
Originally B.Sc., M.Sc. n physics.Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology, Columbia University, New York City. Career as computer programmer on real time systems (air traffic control). Followed by accademic career at University of Hertfordshire (former Hatfield Polytechnic), ending as Head health & HUman Scences Research Institute and Blended Learning champion.
Passionately committed to both open science (OSF ambassador)and advancing role and opportunities for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine). Experienced mentor welcoming mentees in these area generally as well as in psychology,
Research
- Decision making: speed, accuracy & bias
- Mathematical modelling of cognitive processes
- Quality evidence, open science, and replication, see
- Statistics: Generalized Linear Mixed Models; Bayes
Collaboration: Rachel Msetfi, University of Limerick
Happy to accept:
- Mentees, Ph.D. students, B.Sc., M.Sc. Psychology Project students, Interns
Research interests
Mathematical Models of the Psychology of Thinking
- Decision Making: weighing up uncertainy and cost benefit
- Modelling time to make perceptual and action decisions
- Psychophysics of vision, audition, value, utility, pleasure & pain
Statistical Methodology
- Theory: design & analysis of ordinal measures, e.g. 1-5, 0r 1-7 scales of agreement or approval
- Application: National Student Survey
- Application: Neurophysiological & brain measures
- Application: Physiological markers of cancer
- Guidelines: Design & analyses that include effect size and power
Human Computer Interaction
- Evaluation of human performance with technology
- Statistical analyses of humanperformance
- Technology for blind and visually impaired people
Higher Education & Technology
- Use of semi-automatic assessment & feedback
- Physics and statistics education
Evolutionary Psychology of Counterintuitive Cultural Practices
- Poor families killing girl-children
- Institutionalized child abuse
- Honour killing and violence
- Group differences at the group level: gender and ethnicity
Teaching specialisms
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychophysics
- HumanComputer Interaction
- Statistics
- Mathematical Modelling
Commercial and public engagement
Current
Athena Swan Panellist
Historical
- Associate Editor, British Journal of Mathematical Statistical Psychology
- President International Society for Psychophysics 2006 - 2008
Education/Academic qualification
Mathematical Psychology, Ph.D., Psychophysics, HEI: Columbia University in the City of New York
Award Date: 30 Apr 1973
Nuclear Physics, M.Sc., Spin & Parity in Elementary particles, Chelsea College of Science & Technology, University of London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1966
Physics, B.Sc., HEI: The University of Bristol
Award Date: 1 Jun 1961
External positions
Athen Swan Panellist, Advance HE
1 Nov 2010 → …
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Discrimination Models and Tools for Published and Deposited Data
Kornbrot, D. (PI), Page, M. (PI), Georgiou, G. (PI) & Paice, A. (Researcher)
1/10/18 → 31/12/26
Project: Other
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CAAVIP: Cloud Application Accessibility for Visually Impaired People
Kornbrot, D. (PI), Georgiou, G. (CoI), Kent-Ledger, J. (Researcher) & Cain, S. (CoI)
3/07/12 → …
Project: Other
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SOCK: Statistics of Ordered Categories and Kinds: satisfaction, performance, memory
Kornbrot, D. (PI) & Kvavilashvili, L. (CoI)
1/09/09 → …
Project: Other
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Depression and thinking: effects on time perception and judgment
Kornbrot, D. (PI), Msetfi, R. M. (CoI) & Grimwood, M. (Researcher)
1/01/08 → …
Project: Other
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Discrimination Models from Published and Deposited Data
Kornbrot, D. (PI), Georgiou, G. (PI) & Page, M. (PI)
1/10/18 → 31/12/24
Project: Other
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The association between the sense of control and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Msetfi, R. M., Kornbrot, D. E. & Halbrook, Y. J., 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15, p. 1-17 17 p., 1323306.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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According to Needs and Abilities, Universal Basic Income Requires Universal Basic Infrastructure
Kornbrot, D. & Badrudin, N., 21 Jun 2023, In: Radical Statistics. 134, p. 9 - 27 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sense of Control and Depression during Public Health Restrictions and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Msetfi, R., Kornbrot, D., Halbrook, Y. J. & Senan, S., 3 Nov 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). 19, 21, p. 1-13 13 p., 14429.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Depression symptoms and the perception of public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia: The protective effect of sense of control
Senan, S., Halbrook, Y., Kornbrot, D. E. & Msetfi, R. M., 1 Aug 2022, In: Preventive Medicine Reports. 28, 6 p., 101836.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Science with the Murchison Widefield Array: Phase I results and Phase II opportunities
Beardsley, A. ~., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Trott, C. ~., Pober, J. ~., Morgan, J., Oberoi, D., Kaplan, D. ~., Lynch, C. ~., Anderson, G. ~., McCauley, P. ~., Croft, S., James, C. ~., Wong, O. ~., Tremblay, C. ~., Norris, R. ~., Cairns, I. ~., Lonsdale, C. ~., Hancock, P. ~., Gaensler, B. ~. & Bhat, N. ~. ~. & 39 others, , 1 Dec 2019, In: pasa. 36, p. e050Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review