Priti R Shah
Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Psychology, Chair, Department of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of Information, School of Information, Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Educational Psychology, Marsal Family School of Education
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BIO
Priti Shah is Professor of Psychology, Information, and Education and a Faculty Associate in the Research Center for Group Dynamics of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan; she is currently chair of the psychology department. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Her research focuses on higher level cognition (thinking, reasoning, problem solving), the basic cognitive mechanisms supporting these abilities (executive functions, attention), and educational application. She has edited 3 volumes and published over 100 articles and chapters. Her work has been funded by the NSF, NIH, ONR, IES, the Spencer Foundation, and the McDonnell Foundation. She was an Associate Editor at Memory & Cognition and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology and the JEP: Applied. She has received awards for her research, mentoring, and teaching.
- Ibrahim, Amira F.A., McKellar, Sarah E., Yates, J Frank, Priti R Shah. 2025. Oh, the Places You Can Go... If You Ace Calculus: Helping Minoritized Students Succeed in Undergraduate Mathematics. Frontiers in Education 10:1465832.
- Fansher, Madison, Lalwani, Poortata, Adkins, Tyler J., Zhang, Han, Quirk, Madelyn, Carlson, Madison, Boduroglu, Aysecan, Lewis, Richard L., Jonides, John, Priti R Shah. 2025. A brief intervention to improve reasoning about accumulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
- Jesse C. Niebaum, Allison Zengilowski, Benjamin Katz, Priti R Shah, Yuko Munakata. 2025. Adaptive habits: understanding executive function and its development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Audrey L. Michal, Priti R Shah. 2024. A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople's Evaluation of Scientific Findings. Psychological Science 35(4):315-327.
- Rick Dale, Ruth M. J. Byrne, Emma Cohen, Ophelia Deroy, Samuel J. Gershman, Janet H. Hsiao, Ping Li, Padraic Monaghan, David C. Noelle, Iris van Rooij, Priti R Shah, Michael J. Spivey, Sashank Varma. 2024. Introduction to Progress and Puzzles of Cognitive Science. Cognitive Science 48(7):e13480.
- Rick Dale, Ruth M. J. Byrne, Emma Cohen, Ophelia Deroy, Samuel J. Gershman, Janet H. Hsiao, Ping Li, Padraic Monaghan, David C. Noelle, Iris van Rooij, Priti R Shah, Michael J. Spivey, Sashank Varma. 2024. Introduction to Progress and Puzzles of Cognitive Science. Cognitive Science 48(7):e13480.
- Han Zhang, Akira Miyake, Jahla Osborne, Priti R Shah, John Jonides. 2023. A d factor? Understanding trait distractibility and its relationships with ADHD symptomatology and hyperfocus. PLOS ONE 18(10):e0292215.
- Shah, Priti R, Jones, Masha R, Katz, Benjamin , Buschkuehl, Martin , Jaeggi, Susanne M. 2019. Exploring N-Back Cognitive Training for Children With ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders :1087054718779230.
- Shah, Priti R, White, Holly . 2019. Attention in Urban and Natural Environments. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 92(1):115-120. PMCID: PMC6430180.
- Shah, Priti R, Nancekivell, Shaylene E, Gelman, Susan A. 2019. Maybe they're born with it, or maybe it's experience: Toward a deeper understanding of the learning style myth. Journal of Educational Psychology :No-Pagination Specified-No Pagination Specified.