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Fiona E. J. McDonald

Doctoral Candidate

Supervisor: Ben Newell

Research Areas: Decision making. The role of internal data structure and causal belief on data interpretation and predictions.

Academic Qualifications:

BE (Process Metallurgy), UNSW
B Psych, UNSW

Selected Presentations:

  • McDonald, F.E.J., & Newell, B.R. (2005, November). The hot hand fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy: Effects of simultaneous and sequential presentation on attributions of perceived causality. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Toronto, Canada.
  • McDonald, F.E.J., & Newell, B.R. (2006, July). The hot hand fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy: Interpretation of binary sequences. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Memory. Sydney, Australia.
  • McDonald, F.E.J., & Newell, B.R. (2007, April). That’s totally random! Interpretation of Random Sequences. Poster presented at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. Canberra, Australia.
  • McDonald, F.E.J., & Newell, B.R. (2007, November). Judgements of randomness: Is there a bias towards high alternation? Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Long Beach, USA.
Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 1007
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3236
Email: fmcdonald@psy.unsw.edu.au