Dr. Frank Hassebrock
B.A. in Psychology from University of Illinois
M.A. in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Learning and Cognition) from University of Minnesota
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Biography
Dr. Hassebrock came to Denison in 1983 and teaches courses in Cognitive Psychology, Research in Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Adult Development and Aging, Research in Adult Development and Aging, Research Methods in Psychology, and Introduction to Psychology and seminars on “The Seven Sins of Memory: The Psychology of Remembering and Forgetting,” “Autobiographical Memory and the Remembering Self,” and “Remembering in Natural Contexts: Memory, Culture, and Self.” His recent research projects have explored the cognitive psychology of autobiographical memory including age and gender differences in remembering meaningful personal experiences and significant life events. Previously, Dr. Hassebrock’s research focused on the psychology of expertise; in particular, the memory and problem-solving skills used by physicians in diagnostic reasoning.
Research
My research interests in cognitive psychology include attention, memory, problem solving, and decision making. Over the past several years my research has examined (a) the temporal and narrative organization of autobiographical memories, (b) the role of perceptual cues such as sounds and pictures in the retrieval of autobiographical memories, and (c) the impact of highly emotional stimuli in remembering personal experiences. For example, I have compared memories of young and middle-aged men and women who recalled personal experiences in important life domains such as education, family, work, and friendships. In another study, a large sample of men and women between 30 and 85 years of age recalled autobiographical memories associated with keepsake objects (i.e., souvenirs or mementos). These data are being examined to determine if the recalled experiences fit a "reminiscence bump" for particular decades of the participants' lives. I have also examined the autobiographical memories recalled by pediatric cardiologists who were asked to remember previous patients in their professional practice. Their memories of patients and the patients’ families were quite vivid and rich in contextual and emotional content, and contained many items of specific temporal and event information. In addition, the memories were often presented in a narrative organization where multiple events and encounters were recalled for each patient, sometimes from periods of time that covered 10 to 20 years. Most recently, I have worked with several Denison students on a series of experiments where we systematically varied the emotional content of different types of perceptual cues in order to study the retrieval processes used to recall autobiographical memories and their distinctive phenomenological characteristics.
I am very interested in working with Denison students as research collaborators on these types of experiments in autobiographical memory and cognitive psychology. I also would be quite willing to work with students on research projects in adult development on topics including aging and memory, Alzheimer’s disease, caregiving, stress and coping, and inter-generational family relationships.
Collaborative Research with Denison Students
Hassebrock, F., Goans, C., & Bassett, L. (May, 2009) Perceptual modality and emotional valence of autobiographical memory retrieval cues. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, San Francisco.
Fox, C., & Hassebrock, F. (March, 2009). The effect of positive and negative emotional pictures on the autobiographical memory of younger and older adults. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh.
Goans, C., & Hassebrock, F. (March, 2009). Autobiographical memory retrieval following auditory, pictorial, and word cues. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh.
Nowell, M., & Hassebrock, F. (March, 2009). The effect of emotional auditory cues on autobiographical memory retrieval. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh.
Moellenberg, S., & Hassebrock, F. (May, 2008). Specificity of autobiographical memory for positive and negative academic experiences in college students with learning disabilities. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Saffell, T., & Hassebrock, F. (May, 2007). Misinformation effects produced by life memories and time delay. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Moellenberg, S., & Hassebrock, F. (May, 2006). Perceived stress, political participation, and autobiographical memory in relation to the 2004 presidential election. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Yeager, L., & Hassebrock, F. (May, 2005). The effects of recall mode and cognitive interview mnemonics on eyewitness memory. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
Hassebrock, F., & Shipley, J. (May, 2004). Older adults' memories of keepsake objects. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago.
Hassebrock, F., & Hamel, S. (March, 2003). Reminiscence "bumps" for autobiographical memories of keepsake objects. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore.
Hassebrock, F., & Griffith, S. (June, 2002). Functional directives in the organization of autobiographical memories. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans.
Pfleeger, J., & Hassebrock, F. (May, 2002). Metamemory beliefs and caregiving appraisal in caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Shackelford-Klyop, C., Thios, S. J., & Hassebrock, F. (August, 1997). Relationship between moral development and attitudes toward people with disabilities. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Bono, E., & Hassebrock, F. (April, 1997). Attentional style and competitive anxiety in intercollegiate athletes. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.
Matthews, K., & Hassebrock, F. (August, 1992). Adolescents' autobiographical memory of prosocial and antisocial behaviors. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Shaffer, D., & Hassebrock, F. (August, 1992). Memory for script actions: Effects of context and context reinstatement. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Fedeli, L., Snyder, R., & Hassebrock, F. (August, 1991). Orienting task and relatedness effects on memory for pictorial stimuli. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.Publications and Conference Papers
Hassebrock, F., & Boyle, B. (2009). Memory and narrative: Reading ‘The Things They Carried’ for psyche and persona. Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. Click to download.
Hassebrock, F. (2001). Gender and age differences in autobiographical memory and event clusters. Research poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto.
Hassebrock, F., Hutson-Comeaux, S., & Przybyla, D. P. (2001). Psychology Internet Research Lab. Presented at a poster session of the Eighth Annual American Psychological Society Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, Toronto.
Hassebrock, F., & Snyder, R. (1997). Applications of a computer algebra system for teaching bivariate relationships in statistics courses. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 246-249.
Hassebrock, F. (1995). Memory of patients past: Contextual and temporal characteristics. J. Stewman (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th Florida AI Research Symposium (p. 102-106).
Hassebrock, F. (1995). Tracing the cognitive revolution through a literature search. In M. Ware & D. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in Teaching of Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Hassebrock, F. (1994). Autobiographical memory of gender-related experiences and relationships. Research poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Personal Relationships, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Hassebrock, F., Johnson, P. E., Bullemer, P., Fox, P., & Moller, J. (1993). When less is more: Representation and selective memory in expert problem solving. American Journal of Psychology, 106, 155-189.
Hassebrock, F., Jonas, A. P., & Bauer, L. C. (1993). Metacognitive aspects of medical problem solving. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta.
Hassebrock, F., & Prietula, M. (1992). A protocol-based coding scheme for the analysis of medical reasoning. International Journal of Man/Machine Studies, 37, 613-652.
Jonas, A. P., Hassebrock, F., & Bauer, L. C. (1992). Developmental changes in medical decision making: Cognition, meta-cognition, and education. Paper presented at the Annual Spring Conference of The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, St. Louis.
Hassebrock, F. (1991). Remembering patients: Autobiographical memory and medical problem solving. Paper presented at the 25th Anniversary Reunion/Conference, The Center for Research in Learning, Perception, and Cognition, University of Minnesota.
Hassebrock, F. (1990). Tracing the cognitive revolution through a literature search. Teaching of Psychology, 17, 251-252.