J.D. Jasper, Ph.D.
Professor
Experimental Psychology - Cognitive
UH 5014A
419.530.4130
jjasper@utnet.utoledo.edu
Dr. Jasper will be considering new graduate applicants for fall 2026
Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995
Research Interests
- judgment and decision making
- computerized process tracing techniques
- risk perception
- attitude and belief formation
- information integration
- individual differences
- health
- consumer behavior
Research Lab
Selected Publications
- Jasper, J.D., Woolf, J., & Christman, S.D. (2014) Responding to framed health messages: Different strokes for different (handedness) folks. Psychology & Health, 29(6), 671-686.
- Jasper, J.D., Kunzler, J.S., Prichard, E., & Christman, S.D. (2014) Individual differences in information order effects: The importance of right-hemisphere access in belief updating. Acta Psychologica, 148, 115-122.
- Corser, R., & Jasper, J.D. (2014) Enhanced activation of the left hemisphere promotes normative decision making. Laterality, 19(3), 368-382.
- Jasper, J.D., Bhattacharya, C., Levin, I.P, Jones, L., & Bossard, E. (2013). Numeracy as a predictor of adaptive risky decision making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(2), 164-173.
- Westfall, J., Jasper, J.D., & Christman, S.D. (2012). Inaction inertia, the sunk cost effect, and handedness: Avoiding the losses of past decisions. Brain & Cognition, 80, 192-200.
- Rose, J., Jasper, J.D., & Corser, R. (2012). Interhemispheric interaction and egocentrism: The role of handedness in social comparative judgment. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51(1), 111-129.
