Current Research Interests -Factors that affect Catholics' beliefs, especially regarding the Eucharist -Belief coherence between moral and religious viewpoints; meta-ethical beliefs -Intuitive statistical cognition and reasoning Publications Lindemann, N. A. (2024). Parish practices predict belief in the Real Presence: Genuflection, adoration, and the traditional Latin Mass. Catholic Social Science Review, 29, 85-100. Chesney, D. L., Obrecht, N. A., & Peters, E. (in progress). Prompting deliberation leads to more normative numerical judgments. Obrecht, N. A. (2019). Sample size weighting follows a curvilinear function. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 614-626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000615 Obrecht, N.A. & Chesney, D. L. (2018). Tasks that prime deliberative processes boost base rate use. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2180-2185). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Obrecht, N.A. [1] & Chesney, D. L. (2016). Prompting deliberation increases base-rate use. Judgment & Decision Making, 11, 1-6. Obrecht, N. A. 1 & Chesney, D. L. (2015). Support for a deliberative failure account of base rate neglect: Prompting deliberation increases base-rate use. In Noelle, D. C., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D., & Maglio, P. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1757-1762). Pasadena, CA: Cognitive Science Society. Obrecht, N.A. [1] & Chesney, D. L. (2013). Sample representativeness affects whether judgments are influenced by base rate or sample size. Acta Psychologica, 142, 370-382. Chesney, D. L. & Obrecht, N.A. [1] (2012). Statistical judgments are influenced by the implied likelihood that samples represent the same population. Memory & Cognition, 40, 420-433. Obrecht, N. A. [1], Anderson, B, Schulkin, J., & Chapman, G. B. (2012). Retrospective frequency formats promote consistent experience-based Bayesian judgments. Applied Cognitive Psychology 26, 436-440. Anderson, B.L., Obrecht, N.A., Chapman, G. B., Driscoll, D., & Schulkin J. (2011). Physicians' communication of Down syndrome screening test results: The influence of physician numeracy. Genetics in Medicine, 13, 744-749. Chesney, D. L. & Obrecht, N.A. (2011).Adults are sensitive to variance when making likelihood judgments. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (3134-3139). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Obrecht, N. A., Chapman, G. B., & Suárez, M. T. (2010). Laypeople do use sample variance: The effect of embedding data in a variance-implying story. Thinking & Reasoning, 16, 26-44. Obrecht, N. A., Chapman, G. B., & Gelman, R. (2009). An encounter frequency account of how experience affects likelihood estimation. Memory & Cognition, 37, 632-643. Obrecht, N. A., Chapman, G. B., & Gelman, R. (2007). Intuitive t-tests: Lay use of statistical information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1147-1152. Student Presentations & Publications (* indicates WP student) Lindemann, N. A., *Czerny, K., *Ortiz, C., *Perez, A., *Perez, G., & *Villatoro, K. (accepted). Traditional liturgical practices predict belief in the Real Presence. Paper submitted for the 2024 meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Latrobe, PA. *Perez, A. & Obrecht, N. A. (2023). An initial look at factors that may predict belief in the Real Presence among Catholics. Paper presented at the 2023 Research and Scholarship Day, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Lee, B., Obrecht, N. A., & Learmonth, A. (2023). Stress levels between first generation and continuing generation college students. Poster presented at the 2023 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. *Mahida, M. & Obrecht, N. A. (2021). Frequency of false information repetition does not increase sharing of Covid-19 misinformation. Poster presented at the 2021 virtual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science. Obrecht, N. A. & *Collazo, Y. (2020). On the objectivity of moral rules. Poster presented at the 2020 virtual meeting of the Psychonomic Society Austin, TX. *Collazo, Y. & Obrecht, N. A. (2020). Religious groups vary in their degree of moral objectivism. Poster presented at the 2020 virtual Research and Scholarship Day, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Patel, U., & Obrecht, N. A. (2019). The role of religion in career expectations. Poster presented at the 2019 meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington, DC. *Patel, U., Obrecht, N. A., & *Mahida, M. (2019). Influential factors in choice of college major. Poster presented at the 2019 Research and Scholarship Day, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Collazo, Y., & Obrecht, N. A. (2019). Meta-ethical viewpoints: To what extent do people think ethical rules are objective? Poster presented at the 2019 Research and Scholarship Day, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Patel, U., Obrecht, N. A., & *Mahida, M. (2019). Influential factors in choice of college major. Poster presented at the 2019 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Society, New York, NY. *Mahida, M. & Obrecht, N. A. (2018). Credibility and salience predict increased risk perception, but do not lead to an inverted U-shape function. Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. *Mahida, M. & Obrecht, N. A. (2017). Frequency of repetition affects risk salience but not risk perception. Poster presented at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, BC, Canada. *Mahida, M., *Shoaib, M., & Obrecht, N. A. (2017). Credibility predicts increased risk perception, but not repetition frequency does not. Poster presented at the 2017 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA. *Shoaib, M., *Mahida, M., & Obrecht, N. A. (2017). Analytical Thinking Style, Life Satisfaction, and Beliefs. Poster presented at the 2017 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA. *DiMeglio, S. (2016). Type A personality and procrastination, The Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 29, 52-62. *Manzetti, N. & Obrecht, N. A. (2016). Dispositional empathy, altruism, and social networking site usage. Poster presented at the New Jersey Social Media Summit and at Explorations 2016: Research, Scholarship and Creative Expression at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Grella, M., *Mahida, M., Salim, R., Chesney, D. L., & Obrecht, N. A. (2016). An initial look at whether argument evaluation induces deliberation. Poster presented at Explorations 2016: Research, Scholarship and Creative Expression at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ. *Al-Jayeh, E. & Obrecht, N. A. (2015). Comparing executive function in sequential and simultaneous bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *Cruz, K., *D’Argenio, L., & Obrecht, N. A. (2015). Gender and body language on perceived competence. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *DiMeglio, S. & Obrecht, N. A. (2015). Type A personality predicts high workload and stress, but less procrastination. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *Ginart, M. & Obrecht, N. A. (2015). Mastery-approach goals predict student expectations and achievement in mathematics. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *Manzetti, N., *DiMeglio, *S., Link, A., *Oganesova, M., Holle, C., & Obrecht, N. A. (2015) An Impassioned State of Hunger and the Zero-Price Effect. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *Vanderhoof, N. H. & Obrecht, N. A. (2015). Aggression in the Media and School Motivation Predict Aggression in Real Life. Poster presented at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. *Delos Santos, S., Learmonth, A. E., Obrecht, N. A. (2014). Musical experience and mathematical ability. Poster presented at the 2014 meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA *Sinisi, B. & Obrecht, N. A. (2013). Relationships among empathy, social anxiety, and self-consciousness. Poster presented at the 2013 WPUNJ University Research and Scholarship Day, Wayne, NJ. *Mercedes, B. M., Obrecht, N. A., & Heinzen, T. E. (2013). Intergroup interaction, racism, and racial anxiety. Poster presented at the 2013 WPUNJ University Research and Scholarship Day, Wayne, NJ. [1]Manuscript supported by a Summer Research Stipend awarded to N. Obrecht by the Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at William Paterson University
