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Scott Parker

Professor
Department of Psychology

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Affiliated Faculty, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Born in Brooklyn, Scott Parker discovered early that he liked New York and stayed there to receive his higher education at Columbia University. He began teaching at American University in 1974 and discovered that he likes Washington too. He is interested in the quantitative aspects of our experiences and how we make evaluations and choices based on them. He has done research on, for example, how loud we think sounds are, how valuable we think $50 is, how much we like a piece of music or art. He has also studied how people compare things – the loudnesses of two sounds or the attractivenesses of two paintings.

  • Degrees

    PhD, Columbia University, Psychology
    MA,Columbia University, Psychology
    AB, Columbia College, Mathematics

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  • CAS - Psychology
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Partnerships & Affiliations

  • Executive Board of International Society for Psychophysics.

    1991-1996

  • Board of Directors of Eastern Psychological Association.

    1998-2000

  • Consulting Editor, Perception & Psychophysics

    2000-2003

  • Editorial Board, Empirical Studies of the Arts

    2006 to present

Teaching

  • Spring 2012

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Professional Presentations

Parker, S. Robust method for increasing power in two-group comparisons of means. Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, May 2011.Moore, J., Parker, S., Bahraini, S., Gunthert, K., & Zellner, D. Effects of expectations on loudness judgments. Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge MA, March 2011.

Research Interests

Professor Parker’s research interests are primarily in perception and psychophysics (both social and sensory), utility, hedonics, and preference.>

 

Selected Publications

       

    Schneider, B. A., Parker, S., & Murphy, D. (2011). A model of top-down gain control in the auditory system. Attention, Perception; Psychophysics, 73, 1562 - 1578.

       

    Schneider, B. A., Parker, S. (2009). Human methods: Psychophysics. In L. R. Squire (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience: Vol. 5 (pp.19; 27). Oxford UK: Academic Press         Parker, S., Bascom, J., Rabinovitz, B., & Zellner, D. (2008). Positive and negative hedonic contrast with musical stimuli. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2, 171-174.

       

    Rozin, P., Grant, H., Weinberg, S., Parker, S. (2007). Head versus heart;: Effect of monetary frames on expression of sympathetic magical concerns. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 217-224.   

 

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