Susan Joslyn, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Degree From: University of Washington
Interests: Decision Making in Applied Settings, Autobiographical Memory

Contact

Office Guthrie 209
Phone (206) 616-7183
E-mail susanj@uw.edu
Website http://faculty.washington.edu/susanj/
Course Website(s)Psych 355
 Psych 471
 Psych 462 Human Memory

Advising

Do I accept and train new psychology graduate students in general?
Yes
Cognition and Perception

Research

I study decision-making in applied settings. Although I have done work in several different domains including emergency dispatch and air traffic control, my current work focuses on weather-related decisions. I am part of a multi-disciplinary team studying weather forecast uncertainty. An example is a forecast of a 90% chance of winds greater than 20 knots. From a psychological perspective this is a question of how people understand and make use of uncertainty (e.g. 90% chance) in weather-related decisions. This is important for every day decisions as well as for severe weather warnng I am also interested in autobiographical memory, particularly the mechanisms that underlie forgetting of autobiographical memories. One recent group of studies, explored the "directed forgetting effect". In other words, do people remember an event less well, simply because they are told to forget them?

Research Publications

  • Joslyn, S.L. & Nichols, R.M. (2009). Probability or frequency? Expressing forecast uncertainty in public weather forecasts. Meteorological Applications, 90, 185-19.
  • Nadav-Greenberg, L., & Joslyn, S. (2009). Uncertainty forecasts improve decision-making among non-experts, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 2 (1), 24-47.
  • Nadav-Greenberg, L., Joslyn, S., & Taing, M. U., (2008) The effect of weather forecast uncertainty visualization on decision-making. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making.2 (1)24-47
  • Joslyn, S. & Jones, D. (2008) Strategies in Naturalistic Decision-making: A Cognitive Task Analysis of Naval Weather Forecasting.In J.M. Schraagen (Ed) In J.M. Schraagen, S. (Ed) Naturalistic Decision Making and Macrocognition. Ashgate Publishing 183-201
  • Joslyn, S., Nadav-Greenberg, L. & Nichols, R. M. (2009). Probability of precipitation: Assessment and enhancement of end-user understanding. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(2)
  • Joslyn, S., Nadav-Greenberg, L., & Taing, M. U. (2008). The Effects of wording on the understanding and use of uncertainty information in a threshold forecasting decision. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23 (1), 55-72.
  • Joslyn, S., Pak, K., Jones, D. Pyles, J. & Hunt, E., (2007) The Effect of Probabilistic Information on Threshold Forecasts. Weather & Forecasting 22 (4) 804_812
  • Joslyn, S. L., I Oakes, M. A. (2005) Directed Forgetting and Autobiographical Events Memory and Cognition 33(4), 577-587.
  • Joslyn, S. L., Loftus, E. F., McNoughton, A. & Powers, J. (2001). Memory for Memory. Memory & Cognition 29 . 789-797.
  • Joslyn, S. L., Carlin, L. & Loftus E. F. (1998). Remembering and forgetting childhood sexual abuse, Memory 5, 701-724.
  • Joslyn, S. L., Hunt, E. (1998). Evaluating individual differences in response to emergency situations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 4, 16-43.

 

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