Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology
Senior Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
- PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Education & Training
- 11/01/24: LRDC Researchers Ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists List.
- 09/26/22: Jamie Hanson, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Christian Schunn and Tessa Warren collaborated on a new website, 'Teaching in Psych," and were featured in a LRDC brief.
- 09/26/22: Jamie Hanson, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Christian Schunn and Tessa Warren collaborated to create a website for the Psychology Department and the University Center for Teaching & Learning.
- 08/01/21: Brian Galla, Timothy Nokes-Malach, and Melanie Good received an NSF grant for “Investigating the Impact of Mindfulness Training to Mitigate Psychological Threat and Enhance Engagement and Learning in Undergraduate Introductory Physics."
My research examines human learning, problem solving, and motivationwith an aim to understand, predict, and promote knowledge transfer. Specific topics include: 1) identifying the cognitive and metacognitive processes underlying transfer success and failure, 2) exploring the relations between instruction, motivation, cognition, and transfer, 3) examining social and ecological processes that support or inhibit transfer, and 4) investigating the effects of mindfulness meditation on cognition, learning, and transfer. An overarching goal is to develop instructional theories to promote learning and transfer in mathematics and science.
