Education: Purdue University (2013) M.S. in Cognitive Psychology Purdue University (2010) B.A. in Psychology B.S. in Genetic Biology B.S. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Research Interests: My research interests include many different areas within cognitive psychology, and are largely directed at interpreting and discovering phenomena from a functional perspective. Currently, I am working on projects that focus on memory and its interaction with agency, animacy, and/or perceived intentionality. Other areas of interest include the survival processing paradigm (see Publications section of website for more information), sexual selection in humans and its effects on cognitive processes, the psychology of the supernatural, and other functional/evolutionary theories of cognition. Office: Lab: PSY 3143 Office: PSY 3198 Email: jvanarsd@psych.purdue.edu

Publications

Nairne, J. S., VanArsdall, J. E., & Cogdill, M. (2017). Remembering the living: Episodic memory is tuned to animacy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 22-27. [PDF]

VanArsdall, J. E., Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Cogdill, M. (2016). A categorical recall strategy does not explain animacy effects in episodic memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1159707 [PDF]

Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N. S., VanArsdall, J. E., & Blunt, J. R. (2015). Source-constrained retrieval and survival processing. Memory & Cognition, 43(1), 1-13. doi:10.3758/s13421-014-0456-4 [PDF]

VanArsdall, J. E., Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Cogdill, M. (2015). Adaptive memory: Animacy effects persist in paired-associate learning. Memory 23(5), 657-663. doi:10.1080/09658211.2014.916304 [PDF]

Nairne, J. S., VanArsdall, J. E., Pandeirada, J. N. S., Cogdill, M., & LeBreton, J. M. (2013). Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of animacy. Psychological Science, 24(10), 2099-105. [PDF]

VanArsdall, J. E., Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N., & Blunt, J. R. (2013). Adaptive Memory: Animacy processing produces mnemonic advantages. Experimental Psychology, 60, 172-178. [PDF]

Nairne, J. S., VanArsdall, J. E., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Blunt, J. R. (2011). Adaptive Memory: Enhanced Location Memory After Survival Processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 38, 495-501. [PDF]

Nairne, J. S., Pandeirada, J. N. S., Gregory, K. J., & ,Van Arsdall, J. E. (2009). Adaptive memory: Fitness-relevance and the hunter-gatherer mind. Psychological Science, 20, 740-746. [PDF]