Biography

Jennifer Mangels, Interim Dean of The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

I am a full professor of Psychology and the Interim Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College. I specialize in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; post-doctoral fellowship, Rotman Research Institute and the University of Toronto). My research focuses on motivation and executive control functions, particularly as they influence encoding and retrieval of declarative memory through goal-directed stimulus selection, strategic organization, and inhibitory control. While my past research used a range of methods, including patients with focal lesions, neuroimaging (PET, fMRI), eye-tracking, and neuromonitoring (EEG/ERP), my current work focuses on EEG/ERP, stress psychophysiology, and cognitive behavioral methods. I have served as a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several studies funded through federal and intramural sources that bridge this work with learning outcomes relevant to education. In particular, these studies use EEG/ERP to investigate how individual differences and/or environmental differences in academically-relevant motivational constructs influence selective attention to feedback and the up-regulation of control processes influencing memory updating after negative outcomes. Recent work applies theories of executive control, memory, and metacognition to predict how information is selected and transmitted in social environments and how these social interactions influence the accuracy and confidence of what is remembered. Please visit www.mangelslab.org for current information on projects, lab members, as well as access to the BK-Norms, a database of general knowledge questions, responses, and metacognitive information that is available to the public.

Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Univ. of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA

B.A., Psychology, Univ. of Delaware Newark DE