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Jessecae Marsh, Associate Professor for Psychology at Lehigh University

Jessecae Marsh

Associate Professor

Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs & International Initiatives

610.758.2941
jem311@lehigh.edu
Chandler-Ullmann room 105
Education:

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Yale University

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Biography

Dr. Marsh received her B.S. in Psychology and Biology from Vanderbilt University. She worked as a full-time lab manager in a psychology lab before starting her Ph.D. studies in Cognitive Psychology at Yale University. Upon graduation, Marsh took a faculty position at Texas Tech University. After three years at TTU, she started a faculty position at Lehigh. She was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. She served as director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at Lehigh from 2017 – 2022. In 2022, she became the Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and International Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Kleinberg, S , *Korshakova, E., & Marsh, J. K. (2023). How beliefs influence choice perceptions. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1406–1412). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f9840bx

Kleinberg, S., & Marsh, J. K. (2023). Less is more: Information needs, information wants, and what makes causal models useful. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8, 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00509-7

*Korshakova, E., Marsh, J. K., & Kleinberg, S. (2023). Quantifying the utility of complexity and feedback loops in causal models for decision making. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2208–2214). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80g1r3wz

Malt, B. C., & Marsh, J. K. (2023). What does it take to love a bug? Knowledge vs. emotional valence and politics in attitudes toward insect conservation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 15, 500-521.. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12676

Ungson, N. D., Bucher, K., Marsh, J. K., Lamadrid, A., & Packer, D. J. (2023). Won’t you be my neighbor? Local community identification predicted decreased stress over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17, e12764. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12764

*Wilson, J., & Marsh, J. K. (2023). Perceptions of explanation completeness help decrease knowledge overestimation. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 717–723). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gv611vd

Braun, D., Ingram, D., Ingram, D., Khan, B., Marsh, J. K., & McAndrew, T. (2022). Crowdsourced perceptions and COVID-19: Improving computational forecasts of US national incident cases of COVID-19 with crowdsourced perceptions of human behavior. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(12), e39336. https://doi.org/10.2196/39336

*Czarnowski, D. W., & Marsh, J. K. (2022). Transferring causal knowledge across category levels. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 122–128). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rx6r915

Kleinberg, S., *Alay, E., & Marsh, J. K. (2022). Absence makes the trust in causal models grow stronger. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2037–2043). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2d48w25q

*Korshakova, E., Marsh, J. K., & Kleinberg, S. (2022). Understanding health information sourcing and its implications for health beliefs. JMIR Formative Research, 6(9), e39274. https://doi.org/10.2196/39274

Marsh, J. K. (2022). Clearing the obstacles to adversarial collaborations for early career researchers. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 11(1), 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000006

Marsh, J. K., *Coachys, C. N., & Kleinberg, S. (2022). The compelling complexity of conspiracy theories. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2185–2192). Cognitive Science Society. 

Marsh, J. K., Ungson, N. D., & Packer, D. J. (2021a). Bring out your experts: The relationship between perceived expert causal understanding and pandemic behaviors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(4), 785–802. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000402

Marsh, J. K., Ungson, N. D., & Packer, D. J. (2021b). Of pandemics and zombies: The influence of prior concepts on COVID-19 pandemic-related behaviors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(10), 5207. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105207

*Czarnowski, D. W., & Marsh, J. K. (2021). Searching for the cause: Search behavior in explanation of causal chains. In T. Fitch., C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 646–652). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tb38798

Kleinberg, S., & Marsh, J. K. (2021). It's complicated: Improving decisions on causally complex topics. In T. Fitch., C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2437–2443). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18d6t38s

Packer, D. J., Ungson, N. D., & Marsh, J. K. (2021). Conformity and reactions to deviance in the time of COVID-19. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(2), 311–317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220981419

Vitriol, J. A. & Marsh, J. K. (2021). A pandemic of misbelief: How beliefs promote or undermine COVID-19 mitigation. Frontiers in Political Science, 3, 648082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.648082

Kleinberg, S., & Marsh, J. K. (2020). Tell me something I don’t know: How perceived knowledge influences the use of information during decision making. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1849-1855). Cognitive Science Society. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci20/papers/0410/0410.pdf

Marsh, J. K., *Zeveney, A. S., & De Los Reyes, A. (2020). Informant discrepancies in judgments about change during mental health treatments. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(2), 318–332. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702619894905

*Zheng, M., Marsh, J. K., Nickerson, J. V., & Kleinberg, S. (2020). How causal information affects decisions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-0206-z

Teaching

Cognitive Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Healthcare Reasoning and Decision-Making