Psychology

Faculty: Department of Psychology

Contact

Phone: 847-735-5262
Fax: 847-735-6195

Email: kelley@lakeforest.edu

Web: Full Academic Site

April 27
Student’s research suggests a chuckle won’t enhance the audience’s recall of a speech
Mario Baldassari ’11 publishes findings from his senior thesis exploring memory for humor in the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. More »
April 12
Psychology students co-author memory article
Social and collaborative memory research by Lake Forest professor Matthew Kelley and students Kayla Ahlstrand ’12 and Carliann Pentz ’13 to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. More »
April 20
Remember that time…? If you recall with a friend, you may not.
Collaborative memory research by Lake Forest professor Matthew Kelley and students Natalie Talbert ‘10, Mura Dominiko ‘10, and Amie Jones ‘11 to be published in The British Journal of Psychology. More »
March 30
Student wins first prize at neuroscience meeting
Sydni Cole ’12 won first prize at the Chicago Society for Neuroscience (CSfN) meeting’s 10th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition. Thirty-two undergraduates presented posters from several major midwest institutions, including three other Lake Forest College students. More »

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Matthew R. Kelley

Associate Professor of Psychology

Specialization

Cognitive Psychology
Human Learning & Memory
Research Methods and Statistics

Research Interests

Human Memory, Applied Cognitive Psychology, & Decision-Making

Education

PhD Purdue University
MS Purdue University
BS University of Wisconsin at Parkside

Courses Taught

Psychology 110: Introduction to Psychology
Psychology 221/222: Research Methods and Statistics
Psychology 320: Learning and Memory
Psychology 360: Cognitive Psychology
First-Year Studies 128: Robots & Brains: Facts & Fantasies
First-Year Studies 129: Psychology without Borders

Books

Kelley, M. R. (Ed.) (2009). Applied Memory. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Selected Articles

* The asterisk denotes a Lake Forest College student.

Kelley, M. R., Reysen, M. B., *Ahlstrand, K. M., & *Pentz, C. J. (in press). Collaborative inhibition persists following social processing. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.

Reysen, M. B., *Talbert, N. G., *Dominko, M., *Jones, A. N., & Kelley, M. R. (in press). The effects of collaboration on recall of social information. British Journal of Psychology

Kelley, M. R., & Wright, D. B. (2010). Obtaining representative nominal groups. Behavior Research Methods, 42 (1), 36-41.

Kelley, M. R., *Goldman, B. A., Briggs, J. E., & *Chambers, J. C. (2009). Ironic effects of censorship: Generating censored lyrics enhances memory. In M. Kelley (Ed.), Applied Memory. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

*Bovee, J. C., *Fitz, C. C., *Yehl, G. C., *Parrott, S., & Kelley, M. R. (2009). Applied part-set cuing. In M. Kelley (Ed.), Applied Memory. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Calkins, S. & Kelley, M. R. (2009). Who writes the past? Student perceptions of Wikipedia knowledge and credibility in a World History classroom. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 20 (3), 123-143.

Calkins, S., & Kelley, M. R. (2007). Evaluating Internet and scholarly sources across the disciplines: Two case studies. College Teaching, 55(4), 151-156.

Kelley, M. R., & *Bovee, J. C. (2007). Part-set cuing and memory for order. In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research. (Vol. 51, pp. 133-148). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Kelley, M. R., & *Lehman, M. (2006). Repeated questioning for the order of events: Disparate effects following logical vs. random presentation. Psychological Reports, 98, 419-426.

Kelley, M.R., & Calkins, S. (2006). Evaluating popular portrayals of memory in film. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 191-194.

Calkins, S. & Kelley, M. R. (2005). Mentoring and the faculty-TA relationship: faculty perceptions and practices. Mentoring & Tutoring, 13, 259-280.

Surprenant, A. M., Kelley, M. R., Farley, L. A., & Neath, I. (2005). Fill-in and infill errors in order memory. Memory, 13, 267-273.

Kelley, M. R. (2004). Demonstrating the Monty Hall dilemma. Teaching of Psychology, 31, 193-195.

Nairne, J. S. & Kelley, M. R. (2004). Separating item and order information through process dissociation. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 113-133.

Kelley, M.R., & Nairne, J.S. (2003). Remembering the Forgotten? Reminiscence, hypermnesia, and memory for order. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56A, 577-599.

Kelley, M. R. & Nairne, J. S. (2001). Von Restorff revisited: Isolation, generation, and memory for order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 27, 54-66.

Nairne, J. S. & Kelley, M. R. (1999). Reversing the phonological similarity effect. Memory & Cognition, 27, 45-53.

Nairne, J. S., Whiteman, H., & Kelley, M. R. (1999). Short-term forgetting of order under conditions of reduced interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 241-251.

Selected Research Presentations

* The asterisk denotes a Lake Forest College student.

Kelley, M.R,. & Lemke, R. (2012, March). Decision-making under uncertainty: An analysis of the television game show ‘Cash Cab’. Paper presented at the Midwestern Economics Association, Evanston, Illinois.

Kelley, M. R., Reysen, M. B., *Ahlstrand, K. M., & *Pentz, C. J. (2011, November). Can processing social information reduce or eliminate collaborative inhibition? Poster presented at the 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Kelley, M. R., Reysen, M., *Jones, A., *Dominko, M., & *Talbert, N. (2009, November). Collaborative recall of social information. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

*Yehl, G. C., & Kelley, M. R. (2009, November). Applied part-set cuing. Sigma Xi National Conference, Washington, D.C.

Kelley, M. R., *Goldman, B. A., & *Cerda, J. R. (2008, November). Ironic effects of censorship in memory. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Kelley, M. R., Briggs, J. E., *Chambers, J. W., *Blegen, E. A., *Koch, D. H., & *Bovee, J. C. (2007, November). Ironic effects of censorship: Generating censored lyrics enhances memory. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California.

*Jester, J. L., & Kelley, M. R. (2007, May). Verbal overshadowing and memory for order. Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Kelley, M. R., & *Bovee, J. C. (2006, November). Part-set cuing and memory for order. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas.

*Lehman, M., & Kelley, M. R. (2006, May). Examining Hypermnesia in Free and Serial Recall. Poster presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Kelley, M. R. & *Lehman, M. (2004, May). Repeated testing and memory for sequences of scenes. Poster presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Kelley, M. R., *Chambers, J. W., & Briggs, J.E. (2004, May). Censorship and memory: Evidence for a generation effect for censored lyrics? Poster presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Student Scholarship in Undergraduate Journals

*Baldassari, M. J., & Kelley, M. R. (in press). Make ‘em laugh? The mnemonic benefit of humor in a speech. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.

*Goldman, B. A., & Kelley, M. R. (2009). The generation effect in the context of lyrical censorship. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 14 (2), 72-77.

*Gorga, K., *Torres, E., & *Russell, M. (2009). An investigation of the relationship between personality and attractiveness. Modern Psychological Studies, 14, 4-9.

*Lehman, M., & Kelley, M.R. (2006). Examining hypermnesia in free and serial recall. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 11, 57-62.

Selected Awards and Honors

Psi Chi Faculty Advisor Research Grant, $2,000, Psi Chi National Office, Chattanooga, TN (2009)

Psi Chi Faculty Advisor Research Grant, $2,000, Psi Chi National Office, Chattanooga, TN (2007)

William L. Dunn Award for Outstanding Teaching & Scholarly Promise, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL (2006)

Fellowship, Hotchkiss Fellows Program for Junior Faculty, Lake Forest College, IL (2005-2006)

Robert C. Crowder Festschrift Award (1999), Yale University