Felice Bedford

Felice Bedford is an American research psychologist born in Brooklyn, NY whose work includes theories of mindfulness meditation and imagery in illness, how the wrong conclusions have been drawn from neuropsych data, mathematical models of growth of the head and body on perception, and a comprehensive theory of perceptual learning and adaptation. Genetic contributions have advanced knowledge of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup T2e Haplogroup T especially in Sephardim worldwide and "conversos" from Mexico. A civic contribution has been services as an expert witness in Arizona to prevent wrongful convictions based on perceptual misidentifications, especially cross-racial ones. She has taught over 10,000 Introductory Psychology students.