VITA RICHARD DWIGHT PLATT August 2016 Address: 18952 E. Fisher Road St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's City, MD 20686 Home (301) 769-4251 Work (240) 895-4922 e-mail rdplatt@smcm.edu EDUCATION Bethel College, Kansas B.A., Psychology and Philosophy, May 1985 University of Florida, Gainesville M.S., Experimental Psychology, May, 1989. Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, December 1992 Dissertation: Rule Ambiguity and Instructional Factors in the Selection Task Advisor: Dr. Richard A. Griggs FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Phi Beta Kappa Nominated for University of Florida Graduate Teaching Award 1991-92 Porter Horne Award for Outstanding Graduate Work in Cognition and Sensory Processes 1991 Graduate Council Fellowship 1987-1988 National Merit Scholar POSITIONS Associate Professor of Psychology, St. Mary s College of Maryland, August, 1999-present. Associate Dean of Faculty, St. Mary s College of Maryland, July 2011-July 2014 Acting Division Head Division of Human Development, St. Mary s College of Maryland, August, 2001- July, 2002. Assistant Professor of Psychology, St. Mary's College of Maryland, August, 1993 July, 1999. Instructor of Psychology, Bethel College, February, 1993 - May, 1993. COURSES TAUGHT Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Psychological Statistics, Sensation and Perception, Writing in Psychology and Human Development, Research Methods in Psychology, Writing and Research Methods in Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Science and Pseudoscience, Critical Thinking, First Year Seminar (Science, Pseudoscience, and Paranormal Belief).
RESEARCH INTERESTS Reasoning, Decision Making, Autobiographical Memory, Individual Differences in Memory Distortion, Psychological Pseudoscience, Critical Thinking PUBLICATIONS (peer reviewed) Koenig, C. S., Platt, R. D., and Griggs, R. A., (2007). Using dual-process theory and analogical transfer to explain facilitation on a hypothetico-deductive reasoning task. Psychological Research. 71 495-502. Griggs, R. A., Platt, R. D., Newstead, S. E. and Jackson, S. L., (1998). Attentional factors in a disjunctive reasoning task. Thinking & Reasoning, 4, 1-14. Platt, R. D., Lacey, S. C., Iobst, A. D. and Finkelman, D., (1998). Absorption, dissociation, and fantasyproneness as predictors of memory distortion in autobiographical and laboratory-generated memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 12, S77-S99. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1995). Facilitation and matching bias in the abstract selection task. Thinking and Reasoning, 1, 55-70. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1993). Darwinian algorithms and the Wason selection task: A factorial analysis of social contract selection task problems. Cognition, 48, 163-192. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1993). Facilitation in the abstract selection task: The effects of attentional and instructional factors. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46A, 591-613. PUBLICATIONS (not peer reviewed) Platt, R. D. and Chambers, A. Y. (2012). Testbank to accompany Russell Revlin s Cognition: Theory and Practice. NY: Worth Publishers. Platt, R. D. (2008). The anecdotal mind in a statistical world, Speaking Out: Faculty Lectures on Campus, 4, 60-69. Platt, R. D. (2001). A forest of few trees [Review of the book Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology]. Contemporary Psychology, 46, 300-302. PRESENTATIONS Platt, R.D., and Kurisch, J. G. (2003, November). Imagination inflation for real and imagined television commercials. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Harsh, B. J. and Platt, R. D. (2001, November). Individual differences in the effectiveness of warnings
in the DRM memory paradigm. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL. Platt, R. D., Harsh, B. J., and Neuschatz, J. S. (2000, November). The relationships among personality factors, metamemory, and two memory illusions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Platt, R. D., Walker, G. M., Neuschatz, J. S., and Smith, R. L. (2000, March). Individual differences in memory performance in the DRM false memory task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD. Platt, R. D., Rosano, R. E. and Riches, R. L. (1998, November). Metamemory, self-monitoring, and accuracy in an eyewitness memory task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX. Platt, R. D., Lacey, S. C., Iobst, A. D. and Finkelman, D. (1997, November). The relationships among personality factors, autobiographical memories, and laboratory generated memories. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA. Platt, R. D. and Watkins, A. M. (1997, April). Sources of difficulty in the Monty Hall problem. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Platt, R. D., Lacey, S. C. and Finkelman, D. (1997, June). Memories of the O. J. Simpson verdict. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC. Griggs, R. A., Platt, R. D., Newstead, S. E. and Jackson, S. L. (1996, November). Attentional effects on performance in the SARS problem. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago. Griggs, R. A., Platt, R. D., Newstead, S. E. and Jackson, S. L. (1996, April). Confusion theory, attentional focusing and the THOG problem. Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, Norfolk, VA. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1994, November). Facilitation and matching bias in the abstract selection task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Griggs, R. A., Platt, R. D. and Jackson, S. L. (1994, March). Deconfusing THOG: Eliminating Errors in a Deductive Reasoning Problem. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1993, March). Instructional and format effects in an abstract selection task with an explicit rule. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1992, November). Rule ambiguity and instructional effects in the
selection task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1990, April). Attentional cuing factors in the selection task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Platt, R. D. and Griggs, R. A. (1989, March). Social contracts and deductive reasoning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association Meeting, Washington, DC. SUMMER SCIENCE INSTITUTE Platt, R. D., (2011, June 3-8). Understanding Memory, Bethel College Summer Science Institute, North Newton, KS. WORKSHOPS Platt, R. D. (2010, August). Teaching Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum. Teaching Excellence Workshops, St. Mary s College of Maryland. Platt, R. D. (2009, August). Habits of Mind. Teaching Excellence Workshops, St. Mary s College of Maryland. Platt, R. D. (2008, August). Teaching Critical Thinking. Teaching Excellence Workshops, St. Mary s College of Maryland. EXTERNAL GRANTS Grant No. BCS-9975181, August 1999-July 2001, RUI: Personality and Cognitive Factors in Autobiographical and Laboratory-Generated Memory. National Science Foundation, PI: Richard D. Platt, $33,562.00. REU supplement to NSF Grant No. BCS-9975181, May 2000, $4,125.00. Grant No. 70NANB12H065, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for 3 students $19,381. Maryland Industrial Partnerships Agreement #5704, February 1, 2016-January 31, 2017, vcalc and STEM Ed., Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, PI: Randolph Larsen, Co-PIs: Josh Grossman, Emek Kose, Richard Platt, & Shizuka Nishikawa, $97,361 SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Budget Committee (Fall 15 present) Faculty Senate (Fall 15 present) Strategic Planning Committee (Fall 08-Spring 12) Academic Planning Committee (Fall 08-Spring 12) Sustainability Committee, Co-chair (Fall 09-Spring 10) Eco-Rep Program, Faculty Coordinator (Fall 09-Spring 11) Sustainability Committee (Fall 06-Spring 07) (Fall 08-Spring 09) Faculty Senate (Fall 04-Spring 05) Academic Policy Committee, Chair (Fall 04-Spring 05) ICES Review Committee, Chair (Fall 04-Spring 05) General Education Review Committee, Chair (Fall 03-Fall 04) General Education Review Committee (Spring 02-Spring 03) Acting Division Head (Fall 01-Summer 02) Faculty Senate (Fall 01-Spring 02) Campus Master Planning Committee (Fall 01-Spring 02) Assessment Committee (Spring 97-Fall 98) Academic Planning Committee (Spring 97-Fall 98) Academic Policy Committee, Chair (Spring 96-Fall 96) Academic Policy Committee (Spring 95-Fall 95)