Ruthanna Gordon, PhD

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Advisor

Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 246A
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Phone: 312.567.3514
Fax: 312.567.3493
Email: gordonr@iit.edu
Web: Dr. Gordon's Lab

Dr. Ruthanna Gordon received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from SUNY Stony Brook in 2003. Her research interests focus on the interaction between memory and decision-making. One line of experimentation examines the ways that desire-based reasoning can lead people to remember the world as they would like it to be, rather than as it is. Another line looks at how people learn to judge the trustworthiness of information sources. Applications include insight into web-surfing behavior, therapeutic resistance, and medical decision-making. She has also done work in the areas of diagnostic error, narrative processing, and bilingual source memory. She is a member of IIT's interdisciplinary nanotechnology discussion group.

Dr. Gordon teaches PSYC 222 (Mind, Brain, and Behavior), PSYC 423 (Learning Theory), and PSYC 503 (Learning, Motivation, and Cognition). As a result, she knows a lot of cute anecdotes about B. F. Skinner.

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Expertise

Education

• Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook 2003

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Selected Publications

Gordon, R. (2009). Learning from fiction: applications in emerging technologies.  Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 29, 470-475.

Barber, S., Gordon, R., & Franklin, N. (2009). Self-relevance and wishful thinking: facilitation and distortion in source monitoring. Memory and Cognition, 37, 434-446.

Gordon, R., Gerrig, R., & Franklin, N. (2009).  Qualitative characteristics of memories for reality, imagination, and fiction.  Discourse Processes, 46, 70-91.

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