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Eric C. Prichard's research explores the intersection of psychology, behavior, and societal factors. His work has investigated the consistency of handedness using the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, examining its relationship with personality and individual differences. Prichard has also studied behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including factors such as authoritarianism, psychopathy, and mask-wearing adherence. Further research has examined the correlation between societal tightness scores, left-handedness rates, and COVID-19 outcomes in U.S. states, as well as the relationship between awe and resilience to pandemic-related stress. He has also published on the philosophical underpinnings of psychological research, including positivism and postmodernism, and the application of Bayesian reasoning in psychological studies. Prichard's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 9, with 29 total publications and 456 total citations.
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- h-index: 9
- Publications: 29
- Citations: 459
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Positivism, Postmodernism, and Dichotomizing the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: Can the Philosophy of Science Help Researchers Think about How to Classify Handedness? (2025)
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The Bayesian Range: Simple Methods for Incorporating Bayesian Reasoning into Psychological Research for Psychologists and Psychology Students Unfamiliar with Bayes' Theorem (2024)
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Historical changes in everyday human lifestyles and their effects on hemispheric activation: Speculations on McGilchrist’s<i>The Master and His Emissary</i> (2024)
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Differences Between Consistent and Inconsistent Handedness Remain Consistently Interesting: Ten Years of Research on the Consistency of Handedness With the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (2023)
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Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey: relation between societal tightness scores, left-handedness rates, and COVID-19 outcomes in US states (2023)
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Psychopathy, prospect theory, and the Madoff Curve: a dual behavioral neuroscience and behavioral economic framework for understanding White Collar Crime (2023)
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Awe Correlates With Resilience to COVID-19 Stressors Independent of Religiosity (2023)
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Authoritarianism, psychopathy, and resistance to wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic: A partial replication and extension of key findings (2023)
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Is the Use of Personality Based Psychometrics by Cambridge Analytical Psychological Science's “Nuclear Bomb” Moment? (2021)
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