Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1963
Teaching Interests:
Teaching introductory psychology; training teaching assistants for undergraduate courses; development of computer aided instruction for large classes.
Cognitive Psychology
Research Methods in Psychology
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See also PSYC
530 Web Page
Behavioral Decision Theory
Introduction to Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science and the Novel
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Decision making under uncertainty: Models of choice behavior.
Statistics and experimental design; Bayesian models for data analysis.
BCR: Computer software for designing experiments
Psychonomic Society, 2000:
A Bayesian Comparison of Choice Strategies under
Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty: Word Document
Recent Book Reviews (PsycCRITIQUES)
A novel entry in the race for consciousness. Review of Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness, by Dan Lloyd. 2004, 49 (supplement 1) No. 10.
Probability: The very guide of life. Review of Cognition and Chance: The Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning, by Raymond S. Nickerson. 2005, 50 (8) No. 13.
Detection and decision: The theoretical fundamentals. Review of A Primer of Signal Detection Theory, by D. McNicol. 2005, 50 (21) No. 10.
Improving decisions through formal analysis. Review of Rational Choice and Judgement: Decision Analysis for the Decider, by Rex Brown. 2006, 51 (29) No. 12.
Say it with music: A two-million-year refrain. Review of The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body, by Steven Mithen. 2006, 51 (44) No 1.
Consciousness and behavior: Who is in control? Review of Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher (Eds.). 2007, 52 (9) No. 11.
Lies, truth, madness, and mathematics. Review of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, by Janna Levin. 2007, 52 (14) No.7.
What is it like to be a person? Review of The Echo Maker: A Novel, by Richard Powers. 2007, 52 (24) No. 16.
Psychology in the service of the law. Review of Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives, by Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, Robert Schopp, and Steven L.Willborn (Eds.). 2008, 53 (1) No. 5.
The neuroscience of choice behavior. Review of Neuroeconomics: A Guide to the New Science of Making Choices, by Peter Politser. 2008, 53 (31) No. 2
What does it mean to be rational? Review of Aspects of Rationality: Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are, by Raymond S. Nickerson. 2008, 53 (45) No. 3.
The unintended consequences of civilization. Review of Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things, by Laurence Gonzales. 2009, 54 (12) No. 3.
A towering figure in decision science. Review of A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards, by Jie W. Weiss and David J. Weiss (Eds.). 2009, 54 (13) No. 1.
An economist discovers the mind. Review of Wired for Survival: The Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, From the Gas Pump to Terrorism, by Margaret M. Polski. 2009, 54 (36) No.2.
Games, norms, and the behavioral sciences. Review of The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences, by Herbert Gintis. 2009, 54 (39) No.5.
Rational uses of decision theory. Review of Decision Theory and Rationality, by José Luis Bermúdez. 2009, 54 (42) No.2.
Thinking about mathematical thinking. Review of Mathematical Reasoning: Patterns, Problems, Conjectures, and Proofs, by Raymond S. Nickerson. 2010, 55 (23), No. 1.
The deceptive nature of intuition. Review of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. 2010, 55 (51), No. 1.
Lives of the mathematicians. Review of Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life, by Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner. 2011, 56 (36), No. 1.
The origin of numbers. Review of The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (2nd ed.), by Stanislas Dehaene. 2011, 56 (42), No. 2.
The importance of being bored. Review of Boredom: A Lively History, by Peter Toohey. 2012, 57 (2), No. 4.
Other Interests:
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Running and race directing
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I initiated, and for many years directed, the River
to River Relay
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Orienteering
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Slowing down with age? Try orienteering at Backwoods
Orienteering Klub
Email to: pitz@unc.edu
Mailing Address:
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200 Howell Hall
Psychology Dept. UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270
