About
Research in the lab focuses broadly on learning and decision-making and the factors that contribute to individual differences in behavior. One line of research examines personality traits associated with vulnerability to anxiety, such as intolerance of uncertainty and behavioral inhibition, and how these traits influence learning. Another examines how people evaluate information and make judgments, including how they interpret scientific evidence and statistical results.
Recent Publications
- Healy, K., & Radell, M. L. (2026). Behavioural preference for Google and ChatGPT in an online search task. Behaviour & Information Technology, 45(9), 1829–1841.
- Radell, M. L. (2025). Lower intolerance of uncertainty but not behavioral inhibition is associated with increased preference for a novel context. Psychology International, 7(3), 1–12.
- Radell, M. L., & Thompson, W. B. (2024). Drawing attention to previous studies can reduce confidence in a new research finding, even when confidence should increase. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(12), 2572–2585.
- Hoogeveen, S., et al. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 237–283.
- Radell, M. L., & McGuire, B. M. (2021). Intolerance of uncertainty predicts fear of healthcare settings but not desire for testing during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Discover Psychology, 1(1), 1–12.
- Thompson, W. B., & Radell, M. L. (2021). Acceptance of anomalous research findings: Explaining treatment implausibility reduces belief in far-fetched results. PeerJ, 9, 1–27.
- Radell, M. L., Abo Hamza, E. G., Daghustani, W. H., Perveen, A., & Moustafa, A. A. (2021). The impact of different types of abuse on depression. Depression Research and Treatment, 2021, 1–12.
- Radell, M. L., Hamza, E. A., & Moustafa, A. A. (2020). Depression in post-traumatic stress disorder. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 31(7), 703–722.
- Radell, M. L., McGuire, B. M., & Fisher-Thompson, D. (2020). First trial outcome but not training difficulty predicts performance in goldfish visual discrimination. Animal Cognition, 23(4), 741–754.
- Thompson, W. B., Garry, A., Taylor, J., & Radell, M. L. (2020). Is one study as good as three? College graduates seem to think so, even if they took statistics classes. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 19(2), 143–160.
- Radell, M. L., Ghafar, F., Casbolt, P., & Moustafa, A. A. (2020). Avoidance learning and behavior in patients with addiction. In A. Moustafa (Ed.), Cognitive, clinical, and neural aspects of drug addiction (pp. 113–135). Elsevier.