Steven graduated from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, in 2007 with a BS in psychology. His interests are in the area of human judgment and decision making. Steven was the 2007 recipient of the Alfred Lit Memorial Scholarship. Steven joined the BCS program in Fall, 2007. His Masters thesis was titled "The utilization of expert advice: Effects of cost and accuracy."

Steven Sutherland Department of Psychology 3 Life Sciences II Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 Phone: (618) 453-3575 Fax: (618) 453-3563 E-mail: ssuth5zd@siu.edu Faculty Advisor Michael Young

Publications:

Young, M.E., Cole, J. J., & Sutherland, S.C. (2012). Rich stimulus sampling for between-subjects designs improves model selection. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 176-188.

Young, M.E., Sutherland, S.C., Cole, J.J., & Nguyen, N. (2011). Waiting to decide helps in the face of probabilistic uncertainty but not delay uncertainty. Learning and Behavior, 39, 115-124.

Young, M.E., Sutherland, S.C., & Cole, J.J. (2011). Individual differences in causal judgment under time pressure: Sex and prior video game experience as predictors. International Journal of Comparative Psychology (Special Issue), 24, 76-98.

Young, M.E., & Sutherland, S.C. (2009). The spatiotemporal distinctiveness of direct causation.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16, 729-735.

Presentations:

Limongi, R., Sutherland, S. C., Zhu, J., Young, M. E., & Habib, R. (2011, April). Temporal prediction errors anticipatorily modulate cingulate-insular connections. Poster presented at the 2012 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Sutherland, S.C. & Young, M.E. (September, 2011). Integrating an environmental cue and expert advice to increase accuracy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Carbondale, IL.

Cole, J. J., Young, M.E , & Sutherland, S.C. (September, 2011). Rich stimulus sampling for between-subjects designs improves model selection. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Carbondale, IL.

Sutherland, S.C., & Young, M.E. (November, 2010). Advice utilization differences between informed and uninformed decision makers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Sutherland, S.C. & Young, M.E. (June, 2010). Using experts: Informed and uninformed experience-based decision-making. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Normal, IL.

Sutherland, S.C. & Young, M.E. (November, 2009). Using very inaccurate experts to improve performance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

Young, M.E., Sutherland, S.C., and Cole, J.J. (November, 2009). Studying choice in a first-person-shooter video game. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Boston, MA.

Cole, J. J., Sutherland, S.C., & Young, M.E. (June, 2009).  Representative design versus systematic sampling:  A Monte Carlo simulation.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Edwardsville, IL.

Sutherland, S.C., & Young, M.E. (June, 2009).  The utilization of expert advice: Effects of cost and accuracy.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinoisy Data Conference, Edwardsville, IL.

Sutherland, S.C. & Young, M.E. (November, 2008). Using an expert when using the expert is harmful. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Chicago, IL.