Martin Shapiro MA, PhD

Martin S Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fresno. He received his PhD from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His primary interests are in learning, decision-making, and neuroscience. For a long time, his research has focused on animal behavior and animal learning. More recently he has been focused primarily on the area of risky decision making and confidence in humans. He has developed different computer tasks that test memory and gambling decisions based on a person’s confidence in success. In his electroencephalography lab, he is looking at different event-related potentials that correlate with choices made on these tasks. He has also established a psychophysiology lab using equipment from BIOPAC to measure different stress responses such as heart rate, galvanic skin response, and muscle activity (EMG) when people are making risky decisions.