Dr Sam Robson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Science
School of Psychology
Sam Robson is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney. Current areas of interest include belief in misinformation, persuasion, visual expertise, attention, and forensic decision-making.
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Robson, S.G., Searston, R.A., Thompson, M.B. & Tangen, J. M. (2024). A guide to measuring expert performance in forensic pattern matching. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02354-y
Martire, K.A., Robson, S.G., Drew, M... Faasse, K. (2023) Thinking false and slow: Implausible beliefs and the Cognitive Reflection Test. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02321-2
Robson, S.G., & Tangen, J.M. (2023) The invisible 800-pound gorilla: expertise can increase inattentional blindness. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(33), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00486-x
Robson, S. G., Tangen, J. M., & Searston, R. A. (2022). Specific versus varied practice in perceptual expertise training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(12), 1336–1346. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001057
Robson, S. G., Baum, M. A., Beaudry, J. L., Beitner, J., Brohmer, H., Chin, J. M., ... & Thomas, A. (2021). Promoting open science: a holistic approach to changing behaviour. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), 30137. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.30137
Robson, S. G., Tangen, J. M., & Searston, R. A. (2021). The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00282-5
Robson, S. G., Searston, R. A., Edmond, G., McCarthy, D. J., & Tangen, J. M. (2020). An expert–novice comparison of feature choice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(5), 984-995. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3676
Searston, R. A., Thompson, M. B., Robson, S. G., Corbett, B. J., Ribeiro, G., Edmond, G., & Tangen, J. M. (2019). Truth and Transparency in Expertise Research. Journal of Expertise, 24(4), 199-209. https://www.journalofexpertise.org/articles/volume2_issue4/JoE_2_4_Searston.pdf