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Nicholas Duran is an assistant professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences division of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Cognitive Science area of the Department of Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Memphis and received postdoctoral training from the University of California, Merced, where he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Dr. Duran is interested in how complex cognitive processes are revealed in the dynamical processes of movement and language, both within individuals and across people in basic and applied domains. This line of research is currently being pursued in a number of ways, including the analysis of reaching movements during decision tasks, to interpersonal coordination dynamics in communicative contexts (with a focus on continuous "micro-behaviors" and speech). Recent applications of this work include: deception and cheating, prediction during cognitive processing, negotiation and persuasion, and perspective-taking. Another area in which Dr. Duran has published, and that is currently being pursued, includes natural language processing and corpus analysis.
For more information about Dr. Duran's research, please visit his research webpage by clicking HERE
Dr. Duran holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Memphis and received postdoctoral training from the University of California, Merced, where he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Cognitive dynamics, interpersonal coordination and synchrony, perspective-taking, motion tracking, language processes, deception, natural language processing
Duran, N. D., Nicholson, S., & Dale, R. (in press). Simultaneous attraction and resistance to political conspiracies in a real-time decision-tracking task. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology.
Duran, N. D. & Fusaroli, R. (2017). Conversing with a devil's advocate: Interpersonal synchronization dynamics in deception and conflict. PLoS ONE. 12(6): e0178140.
Schillinger, D, McNamara, D, Crossley, Scott, Moffet, H, Sarkar, U, Duran, N. D., Allen, J, Oryn, D, Karter, A. J. (2017). The next frontier in communication and the ECLIPPSE study: Bridging the digital divide in secure messaging. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2017, 1-9.
Coco, M. I., & Duran, N. D. (2016). When expectations collide: Action dynamics reveal the interaction between stimulus plausibility and congruency. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1920-1931.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & Galati, A. (2016). Towards integrative dynamic models for adaptive perspective-taking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 761-779.
Tabatabaeian, M.*, Dale, R., & Duran, N. D (2015). Self-serving dishonest decisions can show facilitated cognitive dynamics. Cognitive Processing, 16, 291-300.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & Richardson, D. (2014). A mass assembly of associative mechanisms: a dynamical systems account of natural social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (commentary), 37, 198.
Duran, N. D., & Dale, R. (2014). Perspective-taking in dialogue as self-organization under social constraints. New Ideas in Psychology, 32, 131-146.
Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2013). Dealing with complexity differently: from interaction-dominant dynamics to theoretical plurality. Ecological Psychology, 25, 248-255.
Duran, N. D., & Dale, R., Kello, C., Street, C. N. H., & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Exploring the movement dynamics of deception. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 4, 1-16.
Dale, R., Duran, N. D., & Morehead, J. R.* (2012). Prediction during statistical learning, and implications for the implicit/explicit divide. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 196-209.
Duran, N. D., & Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2011). Listeners invest in an assumed other’s perspective despite cognitive cost. Cognition, 121, 22-40.
Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2011). The cognitive dynamics of negated sentence verification. Cognitive Science, 35, 983-996.
Myers, J. C.,** McCarthy, P. M., Duran, N. D., & McNamara, D. S. (2011). The bit in the middle: A computational analysis of the linguistic features of body paragraphs. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 201-209.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & McNamara, D. S. (2010). The action dynamics of overcoming the truth. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 486-491.
Duran, N. D., McCarthy, P. M., Hall, C., & McNamara, D. S. (2010). The linguistic correlates of conversational deception: Comparing natural language processing technologies. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 439-462.
Bellissens, C., Jeuniaux, P., Duran, N. D., McNamara, D. S. (2010). A text relatedness and dependency computational model: Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Coh-Metrix to predict self-explanation quality. Studia Informatica Universalis, 8, 85-125.
McCarthy, P. M., Hall, C., Duran N. D., Doiuchi, M., Duncan, B., Fujiwara, Y., & McNamara, D. S., (2009). A computational analysis of journal abstracts written by Japanese, American, and British scientists. The ESPecialist, 30, 141-173.
Dale, R., Roche, J., & Duran, N. D. (2008). Language is complex. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8, 351-362. [Invited Article]
McCarthy, P. M., Renner, A. M.** Duncan, M. G., Duran, N. D., Lightman, E. J.,** & McNamara. D. S. (2008). Identifying topic sentencehood. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 647-664.
Duran, N. D., McCarthy, P. M., Graesser, A. C, & McNamara, D. S. (2007). Using temporal cohesion to predict temporal coherence in narrative and expository texts. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 212-223.
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| PSY 360 | Cognitive Science |
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| PSY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
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| PSY 360 | Cognitive Science |
| PSY 394 | Special Topics |
| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
| PSY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| PSY 592 | Research |
| PSY 593 | Applied Project |
| PSY 599 | Thesis |
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| PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
| PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| PSY 592 | Research |
| PSY 593 | Applied Project |
| PSY 598 | Special Topics |
| PSY 599 | Thesis |
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| PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
| PSY 360 | Cognitive Science |
| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
| PSY 494 | Special Topics |
| PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| PSY 592 | Research |
| PSY 593 | Applied Project |
| PSY 599 | Thesis |
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| PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
| PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| PSY 592 | Research |
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| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
| COM 494 | Special Topics |
| PSY 494 | Special Topics |
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| PSY 323 | Sensation and Perception |
