Art Markman

 

General Information

  • Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing
  • University of Texas, Department of Psychology

Office: 5.218 Seay Building (SEA)

  • Phone: (512)232-4645
  • Office Hours for Spring, 2011: Wednesday 2-4 or by appointment.

Director of The Similarity and Cognition Lab

  • Location: SEA 5.130
  • Lab Phone: (512)232-5481

FAX: (512)471-6175
Email: markman@psy.utexas.edu

Courses

In the Spring of 2011, I will be teaching the Honors Seminar and a graduate seminar on Knowledge Representation.

In the past, I have taught the lower-division course in cognition, PSY 305, a graduate seminar on Reasoning and Decision Making. I have also taught PSY 418, Statistics and Research Methods. An old syllabus for PSY 418 is available here. I have coordinated PSY 387R, Fundamentals of Cognition. I have also taught an undergraduate seminar on Reasoning and Decision Making, and a graduate seminar on Motivation and Learning.

Research

After getting a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1988, I went on to graduate school in the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois, where I got my PhD in 1992. Then, I spent five years as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Columbia University. My research has focused on four main areas. First, I am interested in the way people see things to be similar, and how they process similarity and analogy comparisons. While the study of similarity is interesting for its own sake, it is also interesting because of what it can tell us about other psychological processes. In order to look at the way that our ability to make comparisons affects our cognitive processing, I also do research on category learning and decision making. I have also gotten interested in the way that motivational factors affect learning, decision making, and cognition more generally. Here is a list of selected publications.

For those of you interested in indirect measures of evaluation, I collaborated with Miguel Brendl and Claude Messner to develop the Evaluative Movement Assessment (EMA) technique. The program for running this technique can be found here.

Cognitive Science

I am currently the executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science. The journal is published by the Cognitive Science Society. For more information about the journal, check out this link. To submit a paper to the journal, go here.

The Departmental Limerick Committee

It pains me to admit that I am a member of the Psychology Department Limerick Committee.

Blog

Since June of 2008, I have been writing a blog for Psychology Today called Ulterior Motives. If you want updates on new blog entries, follow me on Twitter.

Family Corner

Many people wonder what I do when I'm not at work. Here, see for yourself.

Other pages around Texas

Go to the University of Texas home page.

Go to the University of Texas Psychology Department home page.