Candice Burkett

Assistant Professor, Psychology

University of Indianapolis

I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Indianapolis, where I teach and mentor students in research projects related to cognitive psychology.

My research explores how people learn, think, and make decisions, with particular interest in how contradictions in information shape processing, understanding, and memory.

I earned my Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Goldman, with additional concentrations in Research Methods and Statistics and in Learning Sciences through the Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI).

My path into research began at the University of Memphis, where I was mentored by Dr. Roger Azevedo and Dr. Art Graesser.

Outside of teaching and research mentoring, I love traveling and spending time adventuring with my dogs, family, and friends. My favorite adventure at the moment is hunting for geodes in the local creeks...the best kept secret in Indiana!