Curriculum Vitae
Name
December 2015
Michael Philip Toglia
Address and Phone
11670 Surfbird Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32256
(607) 591-0719
Department of Psychology
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904) 620-1624
Email: m.toglia@unf.edu
Education
B.A. Psychology
(Minor in
Mathematics)
5/72
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
M.A.
Experimental
Psychology
12/74
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Ph.D.
Experimental
(Cognitive)
Psychology
12/76
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Honors
Scholastic:
B.A., magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Eta Sigma (national freshman honor society)
Psi Chi (national honorary in psychology)
Professional:
Fellow, Division 3 (Experimental) of APA
Fellow, Division 41 (Psychology and Law) of APA
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Fellow, Midwestern Psychological Association
Fellow, The Psychonomic Society
Recipient of SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Outstanding Teaching Award, 2014-15 nomination at UNF
Recipient of SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities
Recipient of UNF’s 2011 Mentor of the Year
Fulbright Senior Specialist (SEE GRANTS)
Distinguished Member, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars
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Professional Organizations
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
American Psychology-Law Society
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)
Midwestern Psychological Association
Eastern Psychological Association
Southeastern Psychological Association
Psychonomic Society
Sigma Xi
The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC); www.sarmac.org
Offices Held
Department Chair, University of North Florida (2008-2015)
Department Chair, State University of New York-Cortland (1997-2000)
Executive Director of SARMAC (2003-2011) Served two 4- year terms (Founding Member, 1994)
Governing Board, SARMAC (1997-2011)
Press Officer, SARMAC (1996-2003)
Councilor, Psychology Division, CUR (2003-2012) Served three 3-year terms
Nominating Committee, CUR (2003-2009); Chair 2006-2009
Chair, SUNY Cortland’s Undergraduate Research Council (2005-2008) (Founding Member)
Positions Held
8/08 - present
Professor, University of North Florida
6/12 – present
Courtesy Professor, Cornell University
9/91 - 7/08
Professor, SUNY Cortland
9/85 - 8/91
Associate Professor, SUNY Cortland (Tenured)
9/78 - 8/85
Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland
8/77 - 5/78
Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University
9/76 - 5/77
Instructor, University of Colorado
Primary Teaching Interests
On the basis of my training and background in experimental psychology, I have taught a wide range of
courses. These offerings include: Cognitive Psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels;
Learning & Memory; Statistics at both levels; Experimental Psychology, a design and methodology course
with a lab; Psycholinguistics and Introductory Psychology. Also, I have taught twice a seminar on
Psychology and the Law at the graduate level, and undergraduate courses at Cornell University entitled
Memory and the Law, and Children and the Law..
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Publications
a) Books:
Toglia, M. P. & Battig, W. F. (1978). Handbook of semantic word norms. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Shlechter, T. M. & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (1985). New directions in cognitive science. Norwood, NJ:
Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Ceci, S. J., Toglia, M. P., & Ross, D. F. (Eds.) (1987). Children's eyewitness memory. New York:
Springer-Verlag.
Ceci, S. J., Ross, D. F., & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (1989). Perspectives on children's testimony. New York:
Springer-Verlag.
Ross, D. F., Read, J. D., & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (1994). Adult eyewitness testimony: Current trends and
developments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thompson, C. P., Herrmann, D. J., Bruce, D., Read, J. D., Payne, D. G., & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (1998).
Autobiographical memory: Theoretical and applied perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Thompson, C. P., Herrmann, D. J., Read, J. D., Bruce, D., Payne, D. G., & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (1998).
Eyewitness memory: Theoretical and applied perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Toglia, M. P., Read, J. D., Ross, D. F., & Lindsay, R. C. L. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of eyewitness
psychology: Memory for events (Vol. 1). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Lindsay, R. C. L., Ross, D. F., Read, J. D., & Toglia, M. P. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of eyewitness
psychology: Memory for people (Vol. 2). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Toglia, M. P., Ross, D. F., Pozzulo, J. A., & Pica, E. (2014). The elderly eyewitness in court. London:
Psychology Press.
Schwartz, B., Howe, M. L., Toglia, M. P., & Otgaar, H. (2014). What is adaptive about adaptive
memory? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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b) Chapters:
Shlechter, T. M. & Toglia, M. P. (1985). Ecological directions in the study of cognition. In
T. M. Shlechter & M. P. Toglia (Eds.), New directions in cognitive science (pp. 1-16). Norwood,
NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Ceci, S. J., Ross, D. F., & Toglia, M. P. (1987). Age differences in suggestibility: Narrowing the
uncertainties. In S. J. Ceci, M. P. Toglia, & D. F. Ross (Eds.), Children's eyewitness memory (pp.
79-91). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ross, D. F., Dunning, D., Toglia, M. P., & Ceci, S. J. (1989). Age stereotypes, communication modality
and mock jurors' perceptions of the child witness. In S. J. Ceci, D. F. Ross, & M. P. Toglia (Eds.),
Perspectives on children's testimony (pp. 37-56). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ceci, S. J., Toglia, M. P., & Ross, D. F. (1990). The suggestibility of preschooler's recollections:
Historical perspectives on current problems. In R. Fivush and J. A. Hudson (Eds.), Knowing and
remembering in young children (pp. 285-300). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Toglia, M. P. (1991). Memory impairment: It is more common than you think. In J. Doris (Ed.), The
suggestibility of children's recollections (pp. 40-46). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
Toglia, M. P., Ross, D. F., Ceci, S. J., & Hembrooke, H. (1992). The suggestibility of children's memory:
A social-psychological and cognitive interpretation. In M. L. Howe, C. J. Brainerd, & V. F.
Reyna (Eds.), Development of long-term retention (pp. 217-241). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ross, D. F., Ceci, S. J., Dunning, D., & Toglia, M. P. (1994). Unconscious transference and mistaken
identity in lineup identification: A memory blending approach. In D. F. Ross, J. D. Read & M. P.
Toglia (Eds.), Adult eyewitness testimony: Current trends and developments
(pp. 80-100). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Toglia, M. P., Neuschatz, J. S., Hembrooke, H. A., & Ceci, S. J. (1996). Children's memory following
postevent information: A contextual approach. In D. Herrmann, C. McEvoy, C. Hertzog, P.
Hertel, & M. Johnson. (Eds.). Basic and applied memory research: Practical applications,
Volume 2, (pp. 67-76). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Toglia, M. P. (1996). Repressed memories: Lost and Found? In K. Pezdek and W. P. Banks (Eds.), The
recovered memory/false memory debate (pp. 313-323). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Lampinen, J. M., Odegard, T. N., Blackshear, E., & Toglia, M. P. (2005). Phantom ROC. In F. Columbus
(Ed.), Progress in experimental psychology research. Hauppauge NY: Nova Press.
Neuschatz, J. S., Lampinen, J. M., Toglia, M. P., Payne, D. G., & Preston, E. L. (2007). False memory
research: History, theory, and applied implications. In M. P. Toglia, J. D. Read, D. F. Ross, & R.
C. L. Lindsay. Handbook of eyewitness psychology: Memory for events (Vol.1). Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Toglia, M. P., Goodwin, K. A., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2009). Eyewitnesses: Suggestibility of adults. In A
Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (pp. 1065-1072).
Chichister, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Odegard, T. N., & Toglia, M. P. (2013). Children as eyewitnesses: Historical background, and
factors affecting children’s eyewitness testimony. (pp. 95-118). In R. Holiday and T. Marche
(Eds.). Child Forensic Psychology. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Toglia, M. P., Neuschatz, J. S., & Goodwin, K. A. (2012). Eyewitnesses: Adult’s.vilnerability to \
suggestion. In A Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science.
Chichister, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Toglia, M. P., Ross, D. F., Polozza, J. A., & Pica, E. (2014). New perspectives on the older
witness in the criminal justice system. In M. P. Toglia, D. F. Ross, J. A. Pozzulo, & E. Pica (Eds.),
The elderly eyewitness in court. London: Taylor.& Francis.
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Pittman, A., Toglia, M., Leone, C., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (2014). Testimony by the elderly in the eyes of
the jury: The impact of juror characteristics . In M. P. Toglia, D. F. Ross, J. A. Pozzulo, & E. Pica
(Eds.), The elderly eyewitness in court. London: Taylor & Francis.
Otgaar, H., Howe, M. L., Schwartz, B., & Toglia, M. P. (2014). What is adaptive memory?. In B.
Schwartz, M. L. Howe, M. P. Toglia, & H. Otgaar, H. What is adaptive about adaptive memory?
(pp.1-7). Oxford University Press.
Toglia, M. P., Leedy, A. D., Wilde, A., Baker, C. M., & Beatrice, E. M. (2014). Cognitive and social
aspects of adaptive memory. In B. Schwartz, M. L. Howe, M. P. Toglia, & H. Otgaar, H. What is
adaptive about adaptive memory? (pp. 139-158). Oxford University Press.
Toglia, M. P. & Schmuller, J. (2015). Why should YOU study psychology? In K. Vaidya (Ed.).
Psychology for the curious: Why study psychology? Curious Academic Publishing:
c) Journal Articles:
Daniel, T. C. & Toglia, M. P. (1976). Recognition gradients for random shapes following distinctive or
equivalent verbal association training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning
and Memory, 2, 467-474.
Gehring, R. E., Toglia, M. P., & Kimble, G. A. (1976). Recognition memory for pictures and words at
long and short retention intervals. Memory & Cognition, 4, 256-260.
Toglia, M. P. & Kimble, G. A. (1976). Recall and use of serial position information. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 2, 431-445.
Barclay, C. R., Toglia, M. P., & Chevalier, D. S. (1984). Pragmatic inferences and type of processing.
American Journal of Psychology, 97, 285-296.
Toglia, M. P., Barrett, T. R., & Lovelace, E. A. (1984). Taxonomic organization in immediate and
delayed recognition memory. American Journal of Psychology, 97, 97-107.
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Ceci, S. J., Ross, D. F., & Toglia, M. P. (1987). Suggestibility of children's memory:
Psycho-legal implications. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 116, 38-49.
Ceci, S. J., Toglia, M. P., & Ross, D. F. (1988). On remembering...more or less: A trace strength
interpretation of developmental differences in suggestibility. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 117, 201-203.
Gehring, R. E. & Toglia, M. P. (1988). Relative retention of verbal and audiovisual information in a
national training program. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2, 213-221.
Gehring, R. E. & Toglia, M. P. (1989). Recall of pictorial enactments and verbal descriptions with verbal
and imagery study strategies. Journal of Mental Imagery, 13, 83-98.
Toglia, M. P., Payne, D. F., Nightingale, N., & Ceci, J. J. (1989). Event memory under naturalistically
induced stress. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 405-408.
Ross, D. F., Dunning, D., Toglia, M. P., & Ceci, S. J. (1990). The child in the eyes of the jury: Assessing
mock jurors' perceptions of the child witness. Law and Human Behavior, 14, 5-23.
Shlechter, T. M., Herrmann, D. J., & Toglia, M. P. (1990). An investigation of people's metamemory for
naturally occurring events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 4, 213-217.
Toglia, M. P., Shlechter, T. M., & Chevalier, D. S. (1992). Memory for directly and indirectly
experienced events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 293-306.
Toglia, M. P., Ross, D. F., & Ceci, S. J. (1992). Children's suggestibility: Recent findings and theoretical
developments. International Journal of Psychology, 27: (3-4), 114-115.
Payne, D. G., Toglia, M. P., & Anastasi, J. S. (1994). Recognition performance level and the magnitude
of the misinformation effect in eyewitness memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1, 376382.
Toglia, M. P., Hembrooke, H., Ceci, S. J., & Ross, D. F. (1994). Children's resistance to misleading
postevent information: When does it occur? Current Psychology, 13, 21-26.
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Toglia, M. P., Ross, D. F., Dunning, D., & Ceci, S. J. (1994). Jurors' perceptions of child witnesses: A
reply to Sonner. Prosecutors Perspective, Spring, 11.
Ross, D. F., Ceci, S. J., Dunning, D., & Toglia, M. P. (1994). Unconscious transference and mistaken
identity: When a witness misidentifies a familiar but innocent person. Journal of Applied
Psychology, 79, 918-930.
Toglia, M. P. (1995). Repressed memories: The way we were? Consciousness & Cognition, 4, 111-115.
Toglia, M. P., Hinman, P. J., Dayton, B. S., & Catalano, J. F. (1997). The blocked-random effect in
pictures and words. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 84, 976-978.
Toglia, M. P., Neuschatz, J. S., & Goodwin, K. A. (1999). Recall accuracy and illusory memories: When
more is less. Memory, 7, 233-256.
Lampinen, J. M., Faries, J. M., Neuschatz, J. S., & Toglia, M. P. (2000). Recollections of things
schematic: The influence of scripts on recollective experience. Applied Cognitive Psychology,14,
543-554.
Karpel, M. E., Hoyer, W. J., & Toglia, M. P. (2001). Accuracy and qualities of real and suggested
memories: Non-specific age differences. The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences,
56b, P103-P110.
Neuschatz, J. S., Payne, D. G., Lampinen, J. M., & Toglia, M. P. (2001). Assessing the effectiveness of
warnings and the phenomenological characteristics of false memories. Memory, 9, 53-71. 15
Neuschatz, J. S., Lampinen, J. M., Preston, E. L., Hawkins, E. R., & Toglia, M. P. (2002). The effects of
memory schemata on memory and the phenomenological experience of naturalistic situations.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 687-708.
Toglia, M. P. (2002). Lab Courses for undergrads: An invitation to comment. APS Observer,15(3).
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Soraci, S. A., Carlin, M. T., Toglia, M. P., Chechile, R. A., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2003). Generative
processing and false memories: When there is no cost. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 511-523. (I was interviewed about this for a piece that
appeared on pp. 20-21 in the July/August 2003 issue of the Monitor on Psychology.)
Neuschatz, J. S., Preston, E. L., Toglia, M. P., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2005). Comparison of the efficacy of
two name learning techniques: Expanding rehearsal vs. name-face imagery. American Journal of
Psychology, 118, 79-101.
Neuschatz, J. S., Preston, E. L., Burkett, A. D., Toglia, M. P. & Lampinen, J. M. (2005). The effects of
post-identification feedback and age on retrospective eyewitness memory. Applied Cogntive
Psychology, 19, 435-453.
Odegard, T. N., Lampinen, J. M., & Toglia, M. P. (2005). Meanings moderating effect on recollection
rejection. Journal of Memory and Language,53, 416-429.
Neuschatz, J. S., Neuschatz, J. S., Lawson, D. S., Goodsell, C. A., Fairless, A. H., Toglia, M. P., &
Powers, R. A. (2007). The mitigating effects of suspicion on post-identification feedback and
retrospective eyewitness memory. Law and Human Behavior, 31, 231-247.
Mueller-Johnson, K., Toglia, M. P., Sweeny, C. D., & Ceci, S. J. (2007). The perceived credibility of older
adults as witnesses and its relation to ageism. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 25, 355-375.
Carlin, M. T., Toglia, M. P., Wakeford, Y., Jakway, A., Sullivan, K., & Hasel, L. (2008). Veridical and
false pictorial memory in individuals with and without mental retardation. American Journal of
Mental Retardation,113, 201-213.
Toglia, M. P. (2009) Withstanding the test of time: The 1978 semantic word norms. Behavior Research
Methods, 41, 531-533.
Brainerd, C. J. , Reyna, V. , Holliday, R., Toglia, M. P. & Yang, Y. (2010). Developmental reversals in
false memory: Effects of emotional valence and arousal. Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology,107, 137-154.
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Carlin, M. T., Toglia, M. P., Belmonte, C., & DiMeglio C. (2012). Effects of presentation mode on
veridical and false memory in individuals with intellectual disabilities. American Journal on
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 117,183-193.
Toglia, M. P., & Klemfuss, J. Z. (2013). Memory and law: Informing the law of the laws of memory. A
review of Memory and Law. PsycCRITIQUES.
Prohaska, V., DelValle, D., Toglia, M. P., & Pittman, A. E. (in press). Reported serial positions of true
and illusory memories in the Deese/Roediger/McDermott paradigm. Memory.
Other Publications
Four peer reviewed manuals including the instructors manual for two editions of John Anderson's Learning
and Memory. (I am the first author in all cases, with each involving one co-author.)
Manuscripts Submitted for Publication
Survival processing scenarios and false memory.
Bilingual false memory.
.Emotion and valence as factors in false memory.
Jury deliberation as a problem solving process
Manuscripts in Preparation
The influence of age and gender on eyewitness credibility.
Eyewitness identification as a function of crime seriousness.
Alibi witnesses
What kids can tell us: Teaching appropriate interviewing techniques.
Semantic integration and thematic activation processes in sentence memory.
Research Projects in Progress
False memory studies (continuing series involving pictures, lists, stories, etc.).
Working Memory in autistic populations.
Visual search and long-term memory in individuals with mental retardation.
Memory strength and postevent memory distortions in children.
Eyewitness memory and older adults.
The misinformation effect in implicit memory tasks.
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Research Grants
The Reliability of Children's Eyewitness Testimony. Grant funded by the Science Directorate of the
American Psychological Association (matching funds) and the Family Life Development Center
($21,000). Conference held June 2-5, 1989. (Co-recipient)
Susceptibility to Suggestion in Child Witnesses. Grant application approved, but not funded, by NIH.
Consultant for NICHD grant (July 2002-June 2004) entitled: Generative Processing: Reducing False
Memory in Individuals with Mental Retardation.
Received Fulbright grant, April 2010, to serve as a US Senior Specialist at the Universidad Autonoma de
Sinaloa, Mexico. Grant entitled Strategies for Research Development on Human Cognition. Grant trip
conducted in March, 2011.
Served as a consultant on a University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville grant entitled Toward
the Development of a Memory Profile in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Presentations at Professional Conventions
I regularly attend and present papers/posters (over 200) at international conferences (e.g., ICAP,
SARMAC), national conventions (e.g., AP-LS, Psychonomic Society, APS) and regional meetings (e.g.,
SEPA). I actively involve students in my research program, with many of them co-authoring conference
presentations. I also frequently have chaired sessions, organized and chaired several symposia, and
presented a number of invited workshops and colloquia.
Editorial Experience (300+ submissions reviewed)
Finalist in 2007 for the next (2008) Editor of Psychological Bulletin
Member of editorial board for Applied Cognitive Psychology (2006-present)
Member of editorial board and Action Editor for Memory. (1998-2001)
Reviewer of grant proposals for NSF.
Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Ad hoc reviewer for Memory & Cognition.
Ad hoc reviewer for Cognition.
Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Memory and Language.
Ad hoc reviewer for Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Ad hoc reviewer for Psychological Science.
Ad hoc reviewer for Psychological Review.
Ad hoc reviewer for Developmental Psychology.
Ad hoc reviewer for Developmental Review.
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Ad hoc reviewer for Child Development.
Ad hoc reviewer for Applied Developmental Science.
Ad hoc reviewer for Experimental Psychology.
Ad hoc reviewer for the American Journal of Psychology.
Ad hoc reviewer for Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Ad hoc reviewer for Psychology Crime & Law.
Ad hoc reviewer for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Ad hoc reviewer for Law and Human Behavior
Ad hoc reviewer for CUR Quarterly
Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
Ad hoc reviewer for Experimental Aging Research
Consulting and Other Experience
Consultant/expert witness in cases involving suggestibility of children's memory; lineup identification.
Interviewed for a Public Television documentary entitled "What Jennifer Knew" concerning
children's rights in the legal system and children as witnesses.
Co-organized and served as a teaching faculty for a two-week Summer Institute on interviewing children
entitled "What kids can tell us." Convened at Cornell University, Summer 1996. Three-day workshop,
based on the two-week program, on interviewing children was conducted in February 1998.
Served on many occasions (> 10) as an external reviewer in promotion/tenure cases.
Served as external examiner on 17 Ph.D. dissertation committees (e.g., SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany,
Syracuse University, Tufts University, University of New South Wales.)
Research Interests
I am primarily interested in a variety of issues in human cognition. Some of these are approached from a
developmental perspective. Many of my current research projects deal with false memories, eyewitness
identification, and eyewitness testimony/memory, and include children, young adults and older adults.
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References
Stephen J. Ceci, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development
MVR Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-0828
Fax: (607)255-9856
sjc9@cornell.edu
John F. Catalano, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
SUNY-Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
(607) 753-3883
Fax: (607) 753-5738
catalanoj@cortland.edu
David G. Payne, PhD
Associate Vice President
Higher Education Division
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ 08541
(609) 683-2014
Fax: (609) 734-5410
dpayne@ets.org
Robert F. Belli, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-6269
FAX: 402-458-2038
bbelli2@unl.edu