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Osvaldo F. Morera    
Dr. Osvaldo Morera
   
Personal Information    
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)

Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Judgment & Decision Making Lab
   
Research Interests    

I am trained as a quantitative psychologist with interests in behavioral decision theory/medical decision making, health psychology and applied psychometrics.  Within behavioral decision theory, I have an interest in the study of analytical and holistic decision making.  I apply this interest in analytical decision making to the use of decision aids to help patients make informed decisions about their health care. My interests in health psychology involve the promotion of behavior change.  Recently, my former PhD student and I developed a web-based smoking cessation intervention geared for female college students at UTEP.  My interests in applied psychometrics primarily involve test validation and the assessment of measurement invariance and test bias.

   
Sample Publications    

Stoever, C.J., & Morera, O.F. (in press). A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the

Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men (ATLG) Measure.  Journal of Homosexuality.

 

Martinez, S. & Morera, O.F. (in press).  An Investigation of Differential Item

Functioning on Two MMPI-2 Scales with a Prison Population.  In R. Velazquez & M. Garrido (Eds.) Handbook of the Latino MMPI-2/MMPI-A: A Research and Application.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Morera, O.F. & Dawes, R.M. (2006).  Clinical and Statistical Prediction after Fifty

Years: A Dedication to Paul Meehl.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 409-412.

 

Chun, K.M., Morera, O.F., Andal, J. & Skewes, M.C. (2006).  Conducting

Research with Diverse Asian American Groups.  In F. Leung, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L.Yang, L. Kinoshita, & M. Fiu (Eds.) Handbook of Asian American Psychology, Volume 2. (pp. 47-65).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Morera, O.F., Maydeu-Olivares, A., Nygren, T.E., White, R. J, Fernandez, N.P. &

Skewes, M.C. (2006). Social Problem Solving Predicts Decision Making Styles in a U.S. Hispanic sample.  Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 307-317.
   
Contact Information    
Email

Phone: 1-915-747-5417
Fax: 1-915-747-6553

216B Psychology Building
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso TX, 79968
   
Courses    

Psyc 1303: Introduction to Statistics

Psyc 4321: Judgment & Decision Making

Psyc 5311: Experimental Design

Psyc 5323: Psychometrics

Psyc 5335: Structural Equation Modeling

Psyc 5335: Multivariate Statistics

   
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