Jerwen Jou
ADDRESSES
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Psychology (Experimental/Cognitive), Kansas
State University, 1990
- M.S.Psycholoogy, East Texas State University, 1980
- M.A. Linguistics, Fujen University, Taiwan , 1975
- B.A. Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan,
1969
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor of Psychology, UTPA, 2000-present
- Associate Professor of Psychology, UTPA, 1996-2000
- Lecturer & assistant Professor of Psychology,
Georgia Southern Univ. & UTPA, 1990-1996
- Lecturer of linguistics, Providence University,
Taiwan, 1975-1978
COURSES I TEACH
- Cognitive Psychology
- memory
- Human Factors
- Human Learning
- Research Design
- Tests & Measurements
- Memory & Cognition
- Introduction to Psychology
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- False memory
- Serial-order memory
- Judgment and decision-making under uncertainty
My research specialty area can be characterized as human
cognitive/memory. My current research focuses on the
effects of semantic relatedness on memory, the nature of
false memory, and serial-order memory. A second area of
interest to me is bias in judgment and decision making
under uncertainty.
PUBLICATIONS
- Qiu, J., Li, H., Jou, J., Wu, z., & Zhang, Q. (2008 in press, currently available online). Spatiotemporal activation underlies mental preparation for successful riddle solving: An event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research.
- Jou, J. (2008). Recall latencies, confidence, and output positions of true and false memories: Implications for recall and metamemory theories. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 1049-1064.
- Jou, J., & Foreman, J. (2007). Transfer of
learning in avoiding false memory: The roles of warning,
immediate feedback, and incentive. The Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60,877-896.
- Jou, J. (2005). Memory retrieval tasks determine the
serial position curves of linear orders with categorical
structures. American Journal of Psychology, 118,
525-565.
- Jou, J., Leka, G. E., Rogers, D. M., &Mutus, Y. E.
(2004). Contraction bias in memorial quantifying
judgments: Does it come from a stable compressed memory
representation or a dynamic adaptation process?
American Journal of Psychology, 117, 543-564.
- Jou, J., Matus, Y. E., Aldridge, J. W., Rogers, D. M.,
& Zimmerman, R. L. (2004). "How
similar is false recognition to veridical recognition
objectively and subjectively?" Memory &
Cognition, 32, 824-840.
- Jou, J. (2003). "Multiple number and letter comparison:
Directionality and accessibility in numeric and alphabetic
memories." American Journal of Psychology, 116,
543-579.
- Jou, J.(2001). The magical number of 4: Can it explain
Sternberg's serial memory scan data?: A commentary on
Cowan's 'The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A
reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 24, (1), p. 126-127.
- Jou, J.(2000). Understanding/acceptance and
adaptation: Is thenonnormative thinking mode adaptive?: A
commentary onStanovich and West's 'Individual differences
in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, (5), 680-681.
- Jou, J., & Aldridge, J.W. (1999). Memory
representation of alphabetic position and interval
information. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 680-701.
- Jou, J. (1997). Why is the alphabetically middle
letter in amultiletter array so hard to determine? Memory
Processes in linear-order information processing.
Journal of ExperimentalPychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 23,1743-1763.
- Jou, J.,Shanteau, J., & Harris, R.J. (1996).
An
information processing view of framing effects: The role
ofcausual-schemas in decision-making. Memory &
Cognition, 24, 1-15.
- Jou, J., &Shanteau, J. (1995). The gestalt and
dynamic processes in decision making.Behavioural
Processes, 33, 305-318.
- Jou, J. (1992). Reading inflectionally incongruent
texts: Automatic and strategic processes in language
performance. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
21, 365-382.
- Jou, J., & Harris, R. J. (1992). The effect of
divided attention on speech production. Bulletin of the
Psychonomic Society, 30, 301-304.
- Jou, J., & Harris, R. J. (1991). Processing of
inflections: Dynamic processes in sentence comprehension.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,
and Cognition, 17, 1082-1094.
- Jou, J., & Harris, R. J. (1990). Event order vs.
syntactic structure in recall of adverbial complex
sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
19, 21-42.
- Birnbaum, M. H., &Jou, J. (1990). A theory of
comparative response times and difference judgments.
Cognitive Psychology, 22, 184-210.
- Jou, J. (1988). "The
development of comprehension of double negation in Chinese
children." Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology, 45, 457-471.
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS OBTAINED
- National Institutes of Health MBRS grant for 1995-1998 "The processing of
serial-order information", ($145,718).
- National Institutes of Health MBRS-SCORE grant for 2002-2006 "The effects of
semantic relatedness on recall and recognition: Furthering
the understanding of false memory", ($308,188).
AD-HOC REVIEWER FOR
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Journal of Memory and Language
- the American Journal of Psychology
- National Science Foundation grant proposals
- National Institutes of Health grant proposals
- B. Goldstein's Cognitive Psychology, 1st ed.(pre-revision review), published by Wadsworth, 2008
- A prospectus and a sample chapter of a textbook Human Memory, Sage Publications, 2008
- Gary W. Heiman’s Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 3rd ed., published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002
- Introduction to psychology book chapterS for Allyn & Bacon, 1998
- Honeck, Richard P. Introductory Readings for Cognitive Psychology for Dushkin Publishing Group Inc., 1997
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS