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John Cutting

Associate Professor and Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning
Office Hours
By appointment
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Teaching Interests & Areas

Research Methods
Statistics
Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Human Memory

Research Interests & Areas

Psycholinguistics
Language production
Quantitative methods in psychology
Cognitive psychology

Ph D Cognitive Psychology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

MA Cognitive Psychology

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

BA Psychobiology

University of California, Santa Cruz

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award

College of Arts and Sciences
2014

Jim Johnson Award

Psi Chi and Student Psychology Association
2014

Outstanding Facutly Member of the Year

Psi Chi and Student Psychology Association
2010

Book, Chapter

Lab Manual for Statistical Analysis
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
(2017)

Journal Article

Categorical and associative relations increase false memory relative to purely associative relations
Coane, J., McBride, D., Termonen, M., & Cutting, C.
Memory & Cognition, 44 (1), 37-49, (2016), 10.3758/s13421-015-0543-1
Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively
Bock, J., Butterfield, S., Cutler, A., Cutting, C., Eberhard, K., & Humphreys, K.
Language, 82 (1), 64-113, (2006)
Making syntax of sense: Number agreement in sentence production.
Eberhard, K., Cutting, C., & Bock, K.
Psychological Review, 112 (3), 531-559, (2005)
Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs
Eberhard, K., Cutting, C., & Bock, J.
Psychological Review, 112 (3), 531-559, (2005)
Literal meaning, minimal propositions and pragmatic processing
Bezuidenhout, A., & Cutting, C.
Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 433-456, (2002)
Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production
Cutting, C., & Ferreira, V.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 318-344, (1999)
That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic compoenents of experimentally elicited idiomatic blends
Cutting, C., & Bock, J.
Memory and Cognition, 25, 57-71, (1997)

Other

Lab manual for psychological research.
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
Sage Publications, (3rd edition), (2012)

Textbook, New

Lab manual for research and statistics
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
(2019), Sage

Textbook, Revised

Lab manual for psychological research, 5th edition
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
(2023), Sage Publications
Lab manual for psychological research, 4th edition
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
(2019)
Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology 2nd edition
McBride, D., & Cutting, C.
(2018), Sage Publications
Lab manual for psychological research, Revised 3rd edition
McBride, D., Cutting, C., & .
(2015)

Presentations

Implementing Responsible AI Use: Illinois State University 's Approach
Roy David Magnuson, Cooper Cutting, Kristin Anne Carlson
HLC Annual Conference, Chicago, April, 2025
The role of categorical, associative, and phonetic relations in inducing false memory
Tatsuya Shigeta, Dawn McBride, Jennifer Coane, Cooper Cutting
87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA, May, 2015
Examining possible perceptual proxies of flow state.
D M Gill, J Scott Scott Jordan, Cooper Cutting
55rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November, 2014
What’s in a name? Deriving DOG from wolf and fox or leash and bone?
Jennifer Coane, Dawn McBride, M Termonen, Cooper Cutting
54rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, Canada, November, 2013
Helping students become knowledge-able through assessment.
Derek Herrmann, Cooper Cutting, Nancy Latham, Dan Wilson
Illinois State Universtiy Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, USA, November, 2013
What’s in a name? Conceptual factors influence spatial perception during stimulus control
D M Gill, J Durtschi, Cooper Cutting, J Scott Scott Jordan
53rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November, 2012
Who’s on the brakes? Controlling an event with another leads to changes in spatial perception
A Kenning, J Scott Scott Jordan, Cooper Cutting, J Clinton, J Durtschi
84th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA, May, 2012