David Dobolyi

David Dobolyi is an Assistant Research Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Virginia, and his research spans a wide range of topics including cybersecurity, healthcare, criminal justice, and esports. His work leverages a variety of statistical methods and techniques including predictive analytics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral experiments, and he currently teaches courses involving statistical programming and data analytics in Python and R.

Research Interests

• Ethics & AI
• Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Quantitative Modeling
• Eyewitness Memory, Healthcare, & Cybersecurity

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of Virginia (2009 — 2015)

Published Research Articles

• Abbasi, A., Dobolyi, D., Vance, A., & Zahedi, F.M. (in press). The Phishing Funnel Model: A Design Artifact to Predict User Susceptibility to Phishing Websites. Information Systems Research.

• Gettleman, J.N., Grabman, J.H., Dobolyi, D.G., & Dodson, C.S. (in press). A Decision Processes Account of the Differences in the Eyewitness Confidence-Accuracy Relationship between Strong and Weak Face Recognizers under Suboptimal Exposure and Delay Conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

• Chen, Y., Zahedi, F.M., Abbasi, A., & Dobolyi, D. (2021). Trust calibration of automated security IT artifacts: A multi-domain study of phishing-website detection tools. Information & Management. 58(1).

• Ahmad, F., Abbasi, A., Li, J., Dobolyi, D.G., Netemeyer, R.G., Clifford, G.D., & Chen, H. (2020). A Deep Learning Architecture for Psychometric Natural Language Processing. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). 38(1), 1-29.

• Netemeyer, R.G., Dobolyi, D.G., Abbasi, A., Clifford, G., & Taylor, H. (2019). Health Literacy, Health Numeracy, and Trust in Doctor: Effects on Key Patient Health Outcomes. Journal of Consumer Affairs.

• Grabman, J.H., Dobolyi, D.G., Berelovich, N.L., & Dodson, C.S. (2019). Predicting High Confidence Errors in Eyewitness Memory: The Role of Face Recognition Ability, Decision-Time, and Justifications. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (JARMAC). 8(2), 233-243.

• Dobolyi, D.G., & Dodson, C.S. (2018). Actual vs. perceived eyewitness accuracy and confidence and the featural justification effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 24(4), 543-563.

• Kitchens, B., Dobolyi, D., Li, J., & Abbasi, A. (2018). Advanced Customer Analytics: Strategic Value Through Integration of Relationship-Oriented Big Data. Journal of Management Information Systems. 35(2), 540-574.

• Dodson, C.S., & Dobolyi, D.G. (2017). Judging guilt and accuracy: highly confident eyewitnesses are discounted when they provide featural justifications. Psychology, Crime & Law. 23(5), 487-508.

• Claassen, D.O., Dobolyi, D.G., Isaacs, D.A., Roman, O.C., Herb, J., Wylie, S.A., Neimat, J.S., Donahue, M.J., Hedera, P., Zald, D.H., Landman, B.A., Bowman, A.B., Dawant, B.M., & Rane, S. (2016). Linear and Curvilinear Trajectories of Cortical Loss with Advancing Age and Disease Duration in Parkinson’s Disease. Aging and Disease. 7(3), 220-229.

• Dodson, C.S., & Dobolyi, D.G. (2016). Confidence and Eyewitness Identifications: The Cross-Race Effect, Decision-Time and Accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 30(1), 113-125.

• Tolleson, C.M.,* Dobolyi, D.G.,* Roman, O.C., Kanoff, K., Barton, S., Wylie, S.A., Kubovy, M., & Claassen, D.O. (2015). Dysrhythmia of Timed Movements in Parkinson’s Disease and Freezing of Gait. Brain Research. 1624, 222-231. *Authors contributed equally

• Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science. Science. 349 (6251), aac4716.

• Willingham, D.T., Hughes, E.M., & Dobolyi, D.G. (2015). The Scientific Status of Learning Styles Theories. Teaching of Psychology. 42(3), 266-271.

• Dodson, C.S., & Dobolyi, D.G. (2015). Misinterpreting eyewitness expressions of confidence: The featural justification effect. Law and Human Behavior. 39(3), 266-280.

• Dobolyi, D.G., & Dodson, C.S. (2013). Eyewitness Confidence in Simultaneous and Sequential Lineups: A Criterion Shift Account for Sequential Mistaken Identification Overconfidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 19(4), 345-357.