Jerwen Jou

ADDRESSES

• (Work) Department of Psychology & Anthropology * The University of Texas-Pan American * Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 * Phone: 956-381-2689 * Email: jjou@utpa.edu
• (Home) 410 N. Depot Rd. * Edinburg, TX 78541 * Phone: 956-289-3556 or 956-648-3106

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 HAVE TAUGHT

• Cognitive Psychology
• memory
• huaman factors
• human motivation
• Human Learning
• Research Design
• Statistics
• Research Methods in Psychology
• Tests & Measurements
• Memory & Cognition
• Introduction to Psychology

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Memory: 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 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

• Jou, J.(in press). The serial-position, distance, and congruity effects of reference-point setting in comparative judgments. The American Journal of Psychology. ,



• Qiu, J., Yu, C., Li, H., Jou, J., Tu, S., Wang, T., Wei, D., & Zhang, Q. (in press 2009). The impact of social comparison on the neural substrates of reward processing: An event-related potential study. NeuroImage.,



• Qiu, J., Li, H., Jou, J., Liu, J., Luo, Y., Feng, T., Wu, Z., & Zhang, Q. (in press 2009). Neural correlates of the "Aha" experiences: Evidence from an fMRI study of insight problem solving. Cortex.,



• Tu, S.,Li, H., Jou, J.,Zhang, Q., Wang, T., Yu, C., & Qiu, J. (in press 2009). An event-related potential study of deception to self preferences. Brain Research.,



• Qiu, J., Li, H., Jou, J., Wu, z., & Zhang, Q. (2008). Spatiotemporal activation underlies mental preparation for successful riddle solving: An event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research, 186, 629-634.



• 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
• Worth Publisher: “Memory” chapter, Myers' 9th (2009) ed introductory psychology textbook "Exploring Psychology"
• Wadsworth: Goldstein's Cognitive Psychology, 2nd ed., prospectus for 3rd ed.,and 3rd ed draft, 2008-2009
• Wadsworth/Cengage Learning: Prospectus for Henderson & Ferreira's "Cognitive Psychology" textbook
• Sage Publications: A prospectus and a sample chapter of a Human Memory textbook, 2008
• Psychology Press: Pre-revision review for Eysenck's "Fundamentals in Cognitive Psychology", 2009
• Prentice Hall: Chapters of Ciccarelli & White's introductory psychology textbook, 2009
• Houghton Mifflin & Co.: Gary W. Heiman’s "Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences", 3rd ed.,2002
• Pearson Allyn & Bacon: Reviewed Lilienfeld et al.'s, 2008 Introductory psychology book chapters
• Allyn & Bacon: Reviewed Introductory psychology book chapters, 1998
• Dushkin Publishing Group Inc.: Reviewed Honeck, Richard P. "Introductory Readings for Cognitive Psychology", 1997

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Member, the Psychonomic Society
• Member, Association for Psychological science

• Last updated: August 14, 2009