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John Cutting

Associate Professor and Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning
Psychology
Office Hours
By appointment
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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

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

Journal Article

Coane, J., McBride, D., Termonen, M., & Cutting, C. Categorical and associative relations increase false memory relative to purely associative relations. Memory & Cognition 44.1 (2016): 37-49.
Bock, J., Butterfield, S., Cutler, A., Cutting, C., Eberhard, K., & Humphreys, K. Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively. Language 82.1 (2006): 64-113.
Eberhard, K., Cutting, C., & Bock, K. Making syntax of sense: Number agreement in sentence production.. Psychological Review 112.3 (2005): 531-559.
Eberhard, K., Cutting, C., & Bock, J. Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs. Psychological Review 112.3 (2005): 531-559.
Bezuidenhout, A., & Cutting, C. Literal meaning, minimal propositions and pragmatic processing. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (2002): 433-456.
Cutting, C., & Ferreira, V. Overlapping phonological and semantic activation in spoken word production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 25 (1999): 318-344.
Cutting, C., & Bock, J. That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic compoenents of experimentally elicited idiomatic blends. Memory and Cognition 25 (1997): 57-71.

Other

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

Textbook, New

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

Textbook, Revised

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

Presentations

Implementing Responsible AI Use: Illinois State University 's Approach. HLC Annual Conference. HLC Higher Learning Commission. (2025)
The role of categorical, associative, and phonetic relations in inducing false memory. 87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2015)
Examining possible perceptual proxies of flow state.. 55rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomics Society. (2014)
Helping students become knowledge-able through assessment.. Illinois State Universtiy Teaching and Learning Symposium. Illinois State University. (2013)
What’s in a name? Deriving DOG from wolf and fox or leash and bone?. 54rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomics Society. (2013)
What’s in a name? Conceptual factors influence spatial perception during stimulus control. 53rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomics Society. (2012)
Who’s on the brakes? Controlling an event with another leads to changes in spatial perception. 84th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2012)