Steve Joordens

UofT Professor of Psychology with a passion for preventive mental health and education

Research Expertise

Memory
Educational Technologies
Developing Transferable Skills
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Education
Developmental Neuroscience
Computer Science Applications
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience
Communication
Sensory Systems
Internal Medicine
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurology
Artificial Intelligence
Management of Technology and Innovation
Marketing
Public Administration
Business and International Management
Community and Home Care
Ophthalmology
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Polymers and Plastics
Catalysis
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

About

Initially trained as a Cognitive Psychologist with expertise on conscious versus unconscious influences on performance, Steve has more recently become a strong proponent of preventative mental health efforts. During the pandemic Steve created a free online course at Coursera.org entitled Understanding and Managing the Anxiety of COVID 19, a course that has over 180,000 registered students. That lead him to then created more specialized courses, one supporting Police Officers and another supporting Health Care Workers, providing each with a better understanding of the stressors associated with their chosen work, and giving them tips and strategies for managing their mental health. Since then Steve has become a common media commentator around preventative mental health, and has begun supporting both not for profits (The GenWell Initiative) and commercial entities (OOt Social) to bring mental health support to corporations, students, and the general public.

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Publications

Selective attention: A reevaluation of the implications of negative priming.
Psychological Review
1998
Parallels between Perception without Attention and Perception without Awareness
Consciousness and Cognition
1997
Long-term semantic priming: A computational account and empirical evidence.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1997
Assessing the effectiveness of a voluntary online discussion forum on improving students’ course performance
Computers & Education
2011
The long and short of semantic priming effects in lexical decision.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1997
Independence or redundancy? Two models of conscious and unconscious influences.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
1993
Measuring the Relative Magnitude of Unconscious Influences
Consciousness and Cognition
1995
Recollection and familiarity through the looking glass: When old does not mirror new.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2000
The eyes know what you are thinking: Eye movements as an objective measure of mind wandering
Consciousness and Cognition
2011
Peering into large lectures: examining peer and expert mark agreement using peerScholar, an online peer assessment tool
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
2008
Conducting Research with Non-clinical Healthy Undergraduates: Does Effort Play a Role in Neuropsychological Test Performance?
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
2012
Turning an advantage into a disadvantage: Ambiguity effects in lexical decision versus reading tasks
Memory & Cognition
2000
False recognition and perception without awareness
Memory & Cognition
1992
Negative priming effects that are bigger than a breadbox: Attention to distractors does not eliminate negative priming, it enhances it
Memory & Cognition
1999
A Clockwork Orange: Compensation opposing momentum in memory for location
Memory & Cognition
2004
The mixed truth about frequency effects on free recall: Effects of study list composition
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2007
It's Alive! Instantiating the Referent Model of Lexical Decision
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2000
Ambiguity in Meaning and Phonology: Effects on Naming
PsycEXTRA Dataset
1992
Selective attention versus selection for action: Negative priming is not the result of distractors being unattended
Perception & Psychophysics
2006
Experiencing failure in the classroom and across the university
International Journal for Academic Development
2020
Modelling and assessing higher education learning outcomes in Germany
Higher Education Learning Outcomes Assessment
Super Memory Bros.: Going from mirror patterns to concordant patterns via similarity enhancements
Memory & Cognition
2008
Transferable Skills
Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education
2019
The Promise of an All-In-One Assessment System for Student Learning Outcomes: Bowling Green State University's Excellence in Assessment Designation (EIA)
Assessment Update
2018
Categorization Based on Familiarity: A Words-Only Lexical Decision Study
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2004
Educational Technologies for Hybrid Learning Contexts: A Grid of 12 Technological Communication Tools
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
2021
Angina Plaut-Vincent
Lexikon der Infektionskrankheiten des Menschen
2009
Let's Riff Off RIFS (Relevant, Interesting, Fun, and Social)
Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education
2019
Designing Effective Online Courses: Exploring the Relationships Amongst Online Teaching Self-efficacy, Professional Development, Online Teaching Experience, and Reported Implementation of Effective Higher Education Online Course Design Practices
The Interactive Journal of Global Leadership and Learning
2021
Everyone's a Critic: Memory Models and Uses for an Artificial Turing Judge
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
2009
Conscious and unconscious influences of memory following superficial encoding
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2001
Not a page-turner, but a very intellectually-challenging book.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
1999
Attention and Consciousness
PsycEXTRA Dataset
1992
False recognition, attention, and perception without awareness
PsycEXTRA Dataset
1991
Interplay of Motivating and Demotivating Factors in an Online English Language Learning Classroom in Light of the Self-Determination Theory Continuum
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence
2022
Student Personality Characteristics Differ in MOOCs Versus Blended-Learning University Courses
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design
2018
Who Controls Attention?
Unknown Venue
2016
Developing Student Learning Outcomes
Connecting the Dots
2023
Publier en français sur la pédagogie de l’enseignement supérieur : un défi au quotidien pour la qualité
Revue internationale de pédagogie de l’enseignement supérieur
2013
Fast and slow temporal integration in visual word recognition: A demonstration of the Presentation of Parts in Noise (POPiN) paradigm
Journal of Vision
2013
Return to Combat Duty after Concussive Blast Injury
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
2012
Familiarity, but not recollection, supports the between-subject production effect in recognition memory.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
2016
Look at the Choices too: An Examination of Looking Behaviours in a Multiple Choice Test
Journal of Vision
2011
Look at the choices: An examination of looking behaviours in a multiple choice test
Journal of Vision
2010
Expanding Access to the MJE
McGill Journal of Education
2009
Making Sense of Memory.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
2005
A Knowledge Translation Framework for Improving Concussion Education Among Medical Students and Physicians
International Journal of Sport, Exercise and Health Research
2022
Accessibility of Chronic Pain Treatment for Individuals Injured in a Motor Vehicle Accident
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences - Open Journal
2016
Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
The Lancet
2022
Papers and Posters Presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society The Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. November 5–7, 1993
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
1993
Gamification as a Strategy for Student Motivation – A Psychological Perspective
Unknown Venue
2023
False Beliefs
The Psychology of Fake News
2020
The Journal is dependent not only on its Editorial Board members but also on external consultants who generously provide their time to review submitted manuscripts. We express appreciation to all individuals who have served the Journal by providing reviews in the previous year of publication.
Journal of Cardiac Failure
2019
Neuroscience Research in the Classroom: Portable Brain Technologies in Education Research
Educational Researcher
2021
EEG variability: Task-driven or subject-driven signal of interest?
NeuroImage
2022
The Convertible Learning System: A Certainty for Uncertain Times
Journal of Education
2022
Interhemispheric transfer of semantic information facilitates bilateral word recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2020
Is “getting started” an effective way for people to overcome the depletion effect?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration
2015
SWDYT: So What Do You Think? Canadian students’ attitudes about peerScholar, an online peer-assessment tool
Learning Environments Research
2014
The effect of visitor motivation on the success of environmental education at the Toronto Zoo
Environmental Education Research
2013
Intelligence as it relates to conscious and unconscious memory influences.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
2013
Is Looking Older than One’s Actual Age a Sign of Poor Health?
Journal of General Internal Medicine
2010
The similarities (and familiarities) of pseudowords and extremely high-frequency words: Examining a familiarity-based explanation of the pseudoword effect.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2011
Online lecture accessibility and its influence on performance in skills-based courses
Computers & Education
2010
The Pros and Cons of Online Lecture Accessibility in the Context of “Skills-based” Courses
Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal
2010
Turning the process-dissociation procedure inside-out: A new technique for understanding the relation between conscious and unconscious influences
Consciousness and Cognition
2010
Modeling performance at the trial level within a diffusion framework: A simple yet powerful method for increasing efficiency via error detection and correction.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
2009
Utilizing Virtual Reality to Improve the Ecological Validity of Clinical Neuropsychology: An fMRI Case Study Elucidating the Neural Basis of Planning by Comparing the Tower of London with a Three-Dimensional Navigation Task
Applied Neuropsychology
2009
Featuring old/new recognition: The two faces of the pseudoword effect
Journal of Memory and Language
2008
Negative priming and multiple repetition: A reply to Grison and Strayer (2001)
Perception & Psychophysics
2002
When Timing the Mind One Should Also Mind the Timing: Biases in the Measurement of Voluntary Actions
Consciousness and Cognition
2002
Investigation a memory-based account of negative priming: Support for selection-feature mismatch.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
2000
Negative priming without overt prime selection.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
1996
Wrestling with ambiguity—further reflections: Reply to Masson and Borowsky (1995) and Rueckl (1995).
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1995
When banking on meaning is not (yet) money in the bank: Explorations in connectionist modeling.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1994
Priming effects that span an intervening unrelated word: Implications for models of memory representation and retrieval.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
1992

Education

University of Waterloo

Ph.D., Psychology / January, 1994

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Experience

Advisory Board Member for OOt Social

Scientific Advisor Committee Member for The GenWell Initiative

Chief Science Officer and Cofounder of Cogneeto.inc

Advisory Board Member for C21 Canada

Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Creator and Presenter of Online Courses for Coursera.org

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