Theresa J. Jordan

Theresa J. Jordan

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Associate Professor of Applied Psychology

Phone: (212) 998-5378
Email: theresa.jordan@nyu.edu

• Applied Psychology
• Psychological Development

Dr. Jordan's research and scholarly writings target the interface of psychology and medicine. She came to her position at New York University from a decade on the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey where she developed programmatic research on medical decision making. This body of work emphasized biases in physicians' decisions associated with patient age, race and gender, and pioneered the use of decision modeling to capture both judgments of fact and judgments of value. She has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, Health Canada, and other national and international agencies to assist in integrating her research findings into health care policies. Her most recent book, Understanding Medical Information (McGraw-Hill, 2001) distills much of her experience in academic medicine, with the aim of making medical research more accessible to psychologists, educators, and other non-physician professionals. While much of Dr. Jordan's research has utilized cutting-edge quantitative methods, including formal decision modeling and pattern recognition approaches to artificial intelligence, her work also spans the qualitative domain. One of her ongoing investigations, which makes use of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, focuses on the impact of central nervous system cancers on the development of young children. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Lung Association, Health Canada, and the Department of Defense, as well as private sources. She is presently completing a book for McGraw-Hill which explores the psychological impacts of medical illness accross the lifespan. Dr. Jordan has recently served as President of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research.