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IDK LOL: Text Messaging During Class Impairs Comprehension of Lecture Material, 33rd Annual Conference of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2011)
After leading a PIE at NITOP 2010 on text messaging during class, I incorporated a...
Multi-Tasking = Epic Fail: Students Who Text Message During Class Show Impaired Comprehension of Lecture Material, Midwest Institute for Students and Teachers of Psychology (2011)
For the unit on divided attention in my Cognitive Processes course, I created a demonstration...
Feeling of Knowing and Retrieval Failure: Tip-of-the-Tongue State is Not the Only Option (with K. S. Johns and L. R. Brooks), 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (2010)
We investigated whether individuals are able to differentiate being in a tip-of-the-tongue state from the...
How Sweet It Is: Candy-Based Demonstrations in Introductory Psychology, 32nd Annual Conference of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2010)
Given the popularity of active learning exercises, especially those involving candy (e.g., Cherny, 2008), I...
When Being Sad Improves Memory Accuracy: The Role of Affective State in Inadvertent Plagiarism, Gettysburg College Psychology Department Homecoming Symposium, (2009)
Inadvertent plagiarism was investigated in participants who had been induced into a happy or sad...
“Have You Seen The Notebook?” “I Don’t Remember.” Using Popular Cinema to Teach Memory and Amnesia, 31st Annual Conference of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2009)
The recent influx of films addressing different aspects of memory loss inspired the development of...
The Effect of Emotional State on Inadvertent Plagiarism Memory Errors, 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (2009)
We investigated inadvertent plagiarism by inducing participants into a happy or sad mood before they...
Practicing mentorship: Graduate-student supervision of undergraduate research assistants (with O. K. Lima and J. P. Seder), 30th Annual Conference of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (2008)
Many research universities rely on graduate students to supervise undergraduate research assistants (RAs) who collect...
The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook: A How‐To Guide for Educators, Teaching Concerns (2006)
Book review of The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook: A How-To Guide for Educators.
Speeded retrieval abolishes the false memory suppression effect: Evidence for the distinctiveness heuristic (with C. S. Dodson), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2005)
We examined two different accounts of why studying distinctive information reduces false memories within the...
Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished relational-encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts (with C. S. Dodson), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition (2004)
Two accounts explain why studying pictures reduces false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (J. Deese,...