Overview
Background
I'm a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland, working at the intersection of cognitive, social and applied psychology. My research interests include how people develop expertise, visual attention and inattention, forensic decision-making, epistemic cognition and reasoning, with my current research focusing primarily on the psychology of misinformation and conspiracy beliefs.
Availability
- Dr Samuel Robson is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints
Searston, Rachel A., Thompson, Matthew B., Robson, Samuel G. and Tangen, Jason M. (2025). Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10 (1) 3, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s41235-025-00610-z
2025
Journal Article
People who believe implausible claims are not cognitive misers: evidence from evaluation tasks
Robson, Samuel G., Faasse, Kate, Gordon, Eliza-Rose, Jones, Samuel P., Smith, Natasha and Martire, Kristy A. (2025). People who believe implausible claims are not cognitive misers: evidence from evaluation tasks. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 14 (2), 275-287. doi: 10.1037/mac0000190
2024
Journal Article
A guide to measuring expert performance in forensic pattern matching
Robson, Samuel G., Searston, Rachel A., Thompson, Matthew B. and Tangen, Jason M. (2024). A guide to measuring expert performance in forensic pattern matching. Behavior Research Methods, 56 (6), 6223-6247. doi: 10.3758/s13428-024-02354-y
2024
Journal Article
Lazy or different? A quantitative content analysis of how believers and nonbelievers of misinformation reason
Robson, Samuel G., Faasse, Kate, Gordon, Eliza-Rose, Jones, Samuel P., Drew, Manisara and Martire, Kristy A. (2024). Lazy or different? A quantitative content analysis of how believers and nonbelievers of misinformation reason. advances.in/psychology, 2024 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.56296/aip00027
2023
Journal Article
The invisible 800-pound gorilla: expertise can increase inattentional blindness
Robson, Samuel G. and Tangen, Jason M. (2023). The invisible 800-pound gorilla: expertise can increase inattentional blindness. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8 (1) 33, 33. doi: 10.1186/s41235-023-00486-x
2023
Journal Article
Thinking false and slow: implausible beliefs and the cognitive reflection test
Martire, Kristy A. A., Robson, Samuel G. G., Drew, Manisara, Nicholls, Kate and Faasse, Kate (2023). Thinking false and slow: implausible beliefs and the cognitive reflection test. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30 (6), 2387-2396. doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02321-2
2022
Journal Article
Specific versus varied practice in perceptual expertise training
Robson, Samuel G., Tangen, Jason M. and Searston, Rachel A. (2022). Specific versus varied practice in perceptual expertise training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48 (12), 1336-1346. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001057
2022
Other Outputs
The relationship between visual expertise and learned attention
Robson, Samuel (2022). The relationship between visual expertise and learned attention. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/3624f0f
2021
Journal Article
The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search
Robson, Samuel G., Tangen, Jason M. and Searston, Rachel A. (2021). The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6 (1) 16, 16. doi: 10.1186/s41235-021-00282-5
2021
Journal Article
Promoting Open Science: a holistic approach to changing behaviour
Robson, Samuel G., Baum, Myriam A., Beaudry, Jennifer L., Beitner, Julia, Brohmer, Hilmar, Chin, Jason M., Jasko, Katarzyna, Kouros, Chrystyna D., Laukkonen, Ruben E., Moreau, David, Searston, Rachel A., Slagter, Heleen A., Steffens, Niklas K., Tangen, Jason M. and Thomas, Amberyn (2021). Promoting Open Science: a holistic approach to changing behaviour. Collabra: Psychology, 7 (1) 30137, 1-20. doi: 10.1525/collabra.30137
2020
Journal Article
An expert-novice comparison of feature choice
Robson, Samuel G., Searston, Rachel A., Edmond, Gary, McCarthy, Duncan J. and Tangen, Jason M. (2020). An expert-novice comparison of feature choice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34 (5) acp.3676, 984-995. doi: 10.1002/acp.3676
2019
Journal Article
Truth and Transparency in Expertise Research
Searston, Rachel A., Thompson, Matthew B., Robson, Samuel G., Corbett, Brooklyn J., Ribeiro, Gianni, Edmond, Gary and Tangen, Jason M. (2019). Truth and Transparency in Expertise Research. Journal of Expertise, 24 (4), 199-209.
2016
Other Outputs
Faces from different dimensions: the role of distinctiveness in the flashed face distortion effect
Robson, Samuel (2016). Faces from different dimensions: the role of distinctiveness in the flashed face distortion effect. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
Supervision
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