JOSEPH MORRISSEY, PhDInstructor of Psychology
Ph.D., Boston University
Area: Cognitive Psychology
E-mail: morrisj@binghamton.edu
Phone: 607-777-6317
Office: Science IV, Room 210
My primary role in the Psychology Department is to teach the core courses (Introductory Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods). In addition, I also teach Experimental courses ranging from Perception to Learning to Drugs and Behavior. Occasionally, I will also teach undergraduate seminars or graduate classes.
My interest is in face recognition. Currently, the work in my lab centers around the ‘other-race effect'-the finding that people are better at recognizing faces of their own race than they are at recognizing faces of other races. I am attempting to discover why this occurs. I am also interested in the effects of distinctiveness and attractiveness on face recognition. I intend to begin work on these phenomena in the near future.
Reinitz, Mark T., Joseph Morrissey, and Jonathan Demb. The Role of Attention in Face Encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1994 Vol 20, no. 1, 161-168.
