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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 began teaching at American University in 1974. He is interested in the quantitative aspects of our experiences and how we make evaluations and choices based on them. Examples include 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
  • Asbury - 325
  • M 6:45 - 7:45 PM PSYC 220 only; Tu 4-5 W 6:45 - 7:45 PM PSYC 220 only; Th 4-5

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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

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

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

 

 

Professional Presentations

  • Kushner, L., Wyatt, L., Parker, S. & Zellner, D. Food texture can induce disgust.  Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Zurich , Switzerland, July 2012.
  • Parker, S. Robust method for increasing power in two-group comparisons of means. Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, May 2011.  

Selected Publications

  • Parker, S., Moore, J. M., Bahraini, S., Gunthert, K., & Zellner, D. (2012).  Effects of expectations on loudness and loudness difference.  Attention Perception and Psychophysics., 74, 1334-1342.        
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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