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Dr. Pretz is an assistant professor at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. As a cognitive psychologist, her research interests include
intuition and expertise, implicit cognition, and cognitive processes in
creativity. She currently teaches courses in cognitive psychology, research methods, and creativity.
Dr. Pretz received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2004. There, she worked with Robert Sternberg on her dissertation, Solving life’s problems: When to analyze and when to trust your intuition.
She received her B.A. from Wittenberg University in 1997, where she double-majored in psychology and music.
After college, she spent a year as a
Fulbright scholar studying psychology of religion in the former East
Germany, living in
Lutherstadt-Wittenberg and studying at
Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Halle-Wittenberg.