J Scott Jordan
Professor
Psychology
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 435
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Research
Biography
Dr. Jordan studies the neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of cooperative behavior. He produces the Dark Loops Productions channel on YouTube, and is extremely proud of his international comic-book collection.
Current Courses
PSY 392.003 Senior Seminar
PSY 392.005 Senior Seminar
PSY 290.024 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
Teaching Interests & Areas
Learning and Cognition, Perception, Systems Theory, Senior Seminar (Otherland: A gamified approach to understanding the multi-scale 'othering' essential to being).
Research Interests & Areas
Consciousness, Volition, Action-Planning, Intentionality, Wild Systems Theory, Agency and Popular Culture
Book, Chapter
Craig, B., Rahko, S., & Jordan, J. Excavating the Ruins of Tulsa's Greenwood District (2024)
Jordan, J. Wild selves: On the deeply historical, contextual emergence of self-sustaining systems. T. Henley, & M. Rossano (EDs), Psychology and Cognitive Archeology. Routledge (2021): 41-54.
Jordan, J., Cialdella, V., Schloesser, D., & Bai, J. Forms of bias in cognitive science. Moving beyond perception, action, and cognition. Spatial biases in perception and cognition. Cambridge University Press (2018)
Jordan, J. What lies at the center of the maze? Finding your "self" in a world made for suffering. Westworld Psychology: Violent delights. Sterling (2018)
Jordan, J. Whose mind is it, anyway? Defending conscious will in a Purple Man's world. Daredevil psychology: The devil you know. Sterling (2018)
WESSELMANN, E., & Jordan, J. Seeing human: When and why do we perceive "human"?. Sterling (2018)
Wesselmann, E., Lobato, E., & Jordan, J. Balancing the warrior and the peace ambassador: Self-concepts and moral complexity.. T. Langley & M. Wood (EDs), Wonder Woman psychology: Lassoing the truth. Sterling (2017)
Wesselmann, E., & Jordan, J. The trek through identity.. T. Langley (EDs), Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier. Sterling (2017)
Wesselmann, E., & Jordan, J. Wild heroes: The hard work of being "moral.". T. Langley (EDs), Captain America vs. Iron Man: Freedom, Security, Psychology. Sterling (2016): 111-123.
Jordan, J., & Wesselmann, E. The contextually grounded nature of prosocial behavior: A multi-scale, embodied approach to morality.. Oxford handbook of prosocial behavior. Oxford University Press (2015)
Jordan, J. Exploring the hidden kingdoms of assumption: Interview with Christopher Priest on Black Panther, culture, and the art of changing minds. Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms. Sterling
Jordan, J. Foregrounding the background: Cognitive science as the study of embodied context
Jordan, J. Sensible objects: Intercorporeality and enactive knowing through things
Jordan, J., & Kim, D. Who is the Black Panther? The self as embodied others. Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms. Sterling
Jordan, J. Wild meaning: The intercorporeal nature of objects, bodies, and words. Intercorporeality. Emerging socialities in interaction. Oxford University Press
Book, Edited
Jordan, J. Contextuality from physics to psychology
Conference Proceeding
Croker, S., Jordan, J., Cialdella, V., & Dayer, A. Contextual events and their role in a two-choice Joint Simon task. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2016)
Croker, S., Jordan, J., Schloesser, D., & Cialdella, V. The effects of racial similarity and dissimilarity on the joint Simon task. D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (EDs), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society (2015): 489-494.
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
Jordan, S., Craig, B., Rahko, S., Carpenter, N., & Hunt, S. Election night live: An extending empathy project event (2022)
Jordan, J. It's Hard Work Being No One. Dr. Jennifer M. Windt (EDs), Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of a Science of Consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 21 (2019): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02632.
Journal Article
Jordan, J. WIld futures: Anticipating artificial anticipatory consciousness. J. S. Jordan & J. Dixon (EDs). Mind and Matter 19.2 (2021): 137-165.
Jordan, J., Schloesser, D., Bai, J., & Abney, D. Multiscale contingencies in individual and joint action. Topics in Cognitive Science 10.1 (2018): 36-54.
Jordan, J. Consciousness and embodiment: They cycle of Holism. H. A. Atmanspacher (EDs). Mind & Matter 16.1 (2017): 7-16.
Jordan, J., & Vinson, D. Conflicts everywhere! Perceptions, actions, and cognition all entail memory and reflect conflict. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016)
Other
Jordan, S., Craig, B., Rhako, S., Carpenter, N., & Hunt, S. The divide: QAnon part two (2022)
Jordan, J., Craig, B., Rhako, S., Carpenter, N., & Hunt, S. The Divide: THEM Part One. Dark Loops Podcast (2021)
Jordan, J., Craig, B., Rhako, S., Carpenter, N., & Hunt, S. The Divide: THEM Part Two. Dark Loops Podcast (2021)
Jordan, S., Craig, B., Rhako, S., Carpenter, N., & Hunt, S. The divide: QAnon part one (2021)
Presentations
Hunt, S.K., Jordan, J. S., Craig, B., Rahko, S. (2023, May). Extending empathy and trust: Who to let in, who to keep out? Presented at the Civic Leaning and Democratic (CLDE) conference, Boston, MA.
Jordan, J. S., Carpenter, N. J., Craig, B., & Hunt, S. K. (2020, September). Who watches the Watchmen?: Utilizing Twitter as a cultural space for collectively writing history. Video presented at the annual WaynePop conference, Detroit, MI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtrSrLibDEs&t=2586s
Creating Culturally Responsive Academic Departments. Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference. (2017)
Cialdella, V. T., Wesselmann, E. D., & Jordan, J. S. (2015, July). Ostracism and false memory. Presentation at the Joint Action Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
Jordan, J. S. & Wesselmann, E. D. (2015, July). The 'self' as embodied others: Implications for the moral aspects of joint action. Presentation at the Joint Action Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
Examining possible perceptual proxies of flow state.. 55rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomics Society. (2014)
Motor dynamics in a joint action task. Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2014)
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)
Searching for Perceptual Effects of the Economy of Action in Virtual Space. The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. The Psychonomic Society. (2008)