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1 CURRICULUM VITA Name: Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Address: Department of Psychology Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia Telephone: Office - (804) Fax (804) ohill@vsu.edu Education Graduate: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A., Psychology Ph.D., 1981 Psychology Undergraduate: Howard University Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971 Comparative History Employment Dates: August, 1981 May, 2002; June Present Position: Professor of Psychology (Retired ) Department Chair June, 2005 June, 2011 Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia Responsibilities: Graduate Courses Taught: Experimental Design and Data Analysis in Psychological Research; Learning Theory; Theories of Motivation; Advanced Statistics; Proseminar; Directed or served on the thesis/dissertation committees of over 70 graduate students. Undergraduate Courses Taught: General Psychology; Perception; Experimental Psychology; Physiological Psychology; Quantitative Methods; Tests and Measurements; Psychology and Religion.

2 Research Areas Cognitive training Religiosity and health Barriers to minority careers in science Psychoepistemology Time perception Problem-solving heuristics Mindful practice Professional Activities Broadening Participation Grant, HRD Award total: $342, REESE Grant, DRL Award total: $989, Educational Research Grant, HRD Award total: $1,062, Board Member, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Commission Member, Virginia Council on Human Resources Commonwealth of Virginia

3 Member, Scientific Review Panel, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, WVA Member, Special Project Review Panel National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland Member, Merit Review Panel ITEST, REESE, HBCU-UP Alexandria, Virginia 2008, 2010 Editorial Board: Mindfullness Consulting Reader: Psychological Reports Perceptual and Motor Skills Psychological Bulletin Journal of Child and Family Studies Project Director, Bridges to the Future Project Grant National Institutes of Health Award total: $600, External Program Evaluator Appalachia Educational Laboratory Charleston, West Virginia Project Co-Director, VSU Computer-Based Instructional Technologies Project Grant No. USE

4 Project Director, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grant U.S. Department of Education Award total: $160, Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) National Institutes of Health Selected Publications Hill, O., Serpell, Z. & Faison, M. (2012). Improving minority student mathematics performance through cognitive training. In L.A. Flowers, J. Moore, and L. O. Flowers (Eds.), The Evolution of Learning: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, University Press of America. Boyd, K., Hill, O., Fife, J. & Whittington, M. (2011). Religiosity and HIV risk behaviors in African American college students, Psychological Reports, 108, Clark, V. & Hill, O. (2009), Cardiovascular reactivity to racist stressors in African American college students, Ethnicity & Disease, 19, 2-6. Ma, L., Sherstyuk, K., Dowling, M., and Hill, O. (2002). Altruism and voluntary provision of public goods. Economics Bulletin, 3, 1-8. Hill, O. W., Block, R. A., & Buggie, S. E. (2000). Culture and beliefs about time: Comparisons among Black Americans, Black Africans, and White Americans. Journal of Psychology, 134, Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1998). Childhood fantasy, creativity and an internal epistemic style. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 13, Hill, O. and Huntley, L. (1998). The internal-external dimension of epistemic and personality factors and a measure of achievement motivation. Psychological Reports, 82, Hill, O. (1996). The internal/external dimension in psychoepistemic orientation and measures of ability. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82,

5 Hill, O. and Moadab, M. (1995). Spatial information and temporal representation in memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1994). Academic procrastination among African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 75, Hill, O. (1993). Altered states of consciousness. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Long-term memory: Nature, contents and formation. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Sources of experimental bias. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Statistical significance tests. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1993). The personality typology of black college students: Evidence for a characteristic cognitive style? Psychological Reports, 72, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). The psychoepistemological profile of African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 72, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). Spatial coding of temporal order information in short-term memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1992). Factor structure of beliefs about time among African-American college students. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, Hill, O. (1990). Rethinking the "significance" of the rejected null hypothesis. American Psychologist, 45(5), Hill, O., Pettus, W. and Hedin, B. (1990) Three studies of factors affecting the attitudes of blacks and females toward the pursuit of science and science-related careers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(4), Hill, O. (1987). Intuition: Inferential heuristic or epistemic mode? Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 7(2), Hill, O. (1986). Further implications of anomalous data for scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 41(10),

6 Professional Affiliations American Psychological Association Association for Psychological Science Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 6