CURRICULUM VITAE

• Ph.D., Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, 1969.
• B.A.., Honours Psychology, McGill Univeristy, 1964.

• 1982-present: Director of Liberal Studies Program, half-time position in the College of Arts and Sciences
• 1977-1978: Associate Dean for Curriculum and Advisement, College of Arts and Sciences

• 1998-1999: Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Cape Town.
• 1994-Present: Professor of Psychology, Florida International University.
• 1975-1994: Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida International University (half-time position since 1982).
• Summer, 1986: Tutor at Cambridge University International Summer School.
• 1978-1979: Courtesy Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Florida (on leave from FIU).
• 1972-1975: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida International University.
• 1971-1972: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kansas State University.
• 1969-1971: Lecturer, College of Education, University College of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

• National Science Foundation Grant, (1993-1996) Co-principal investigator. Young Children's Reactions to a Natural Disaster: Memory and Stress.

• Teaching Incentive Plan Award, Florida International University, 1995
• Invited participant to NATO Advanced Study Institute entitled, "Recollections of Trauma: Scientific Research and Clinical Practice, Port Bourgenay, France, June 14-25, 1996.
• Board of Regents Teaching Award, 1998.

• Parker, J.F., Bahrick, L.E., Fivush, R., Johnson, P. (2006). The impact of stress on mothers' memory of a natural disaster. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 142-154.
• Meissner, C., Treboux, C., Parker, J.F., & Maclin, O. (2005). Investigating the phenomenological basis for eyewitness decisions in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory analysis. Memory and Cognition, 33, 783-792.
• Sales, J.M., Fivush, R., Parker, J.F., & Bahrick, L. (2005). Stressing memory: Long-term relations among children's stress, recall, and psychological outcome following Hurricane Andrew. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6. 529-545.
• Schrieber, N., & Parker, J. F. (2004). Inviting witnesses to speculate: Effects of age and interaction on children’s recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
• Fivush, R., Sales, J. M., Goldberg, A., Bahrick, L. & Parker, J. F. (2004). Weathering the storm: Children’s long-term  recall of Hurricane Andrew. Memory, 12(1), 104-118.
• Parker, J.F., & Myers, A. (2001). Attempts to improve children's identifications from sequential-presentation linueups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 796-815.
• McCauley, M., & Parker, J. F. (2001). When will a child be believed? The impact of victim's age, and juror's gender on children's credibility and verdict in a sexual-abuse case. Child Abuse and Neglect, 25, 523-539.
• Parker, J.F., Bahrick, L.E., Lundy, B., Fivush, R., and Levitt, M. (1998). Effects of stress on children's memory for a natural disaster. In C.P. Thompson, D. Hermann, J.D. Read, D. Bruce, D.G. Payne, & M.P. Toglia (Eds.), Eyewitness memory: Theoretical perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Bahrick, L.E., Parker, J.F., Fivush, R., & Levitt, M. (1998).  The effects of stress on young children's memory for a natural disaster. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 4, 308-331.

• Parker, J.F., Bahrick, L., & Soza-Vento, R. (2006, March). The effects of swimming lesson stress on young children's memory for action sequences. Poster session presented at the American Psychology and Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
• Parker, J.F., Bahrick, L. & Fivush, R. (2005, March). The impact of stress on mothers' memory for a natural disaster. Poster session presented at the American Psychology and Law Society, San Diego, CA.
• Schreiber, N., & Parker, J.F. (2004, September). Child witness interviewing: inviting speculation. Invited paper at Young German Researchers in the USA: University and Science Policies in Germany and Europe: Perspectives and Challenges, Boston, MA
• Schreiber, N., & Parker, J.F. (2004, July). Gaining insight into long-term effests of speculation: Does source monitoring help? In C. Roebers (Chair), Developmental changes in meta-cognitive processes involved in false memory and false suggestion. Symposium conducted at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) in Ghent, Belgium.
• Parker, J. F., & Schreiber, N. (March, 2004). Long-term effects of  speculation: Source monitoring of confabulations. Poster presented at the American Psychology and Law Society, Austin, TX.
• Sales, J. M., Fivush, R., Parker, J. F., & Bahrick, L. (2003, July). Stressing memory: Long-term relations among children's stress, recall, and psychological outcome following Hurricane Andrew. In R. Fivush (Chair) Focusing on the internal in memories of trauma. Symposium conducted at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Aberdeen, Scotland.
•  Meissner, C., Parker, J. F., Tredoux, C., & Maclin, O. (2003, July). Evaluating line-up identification procedures within a signal detection paradigm. In R. Malpass (Chair) Simultaneous or sequential line-ups? New data, new perspectives, new looks at old questions and a study space based policy analysis. Symposium conducted at APLS/EAPL Psychology and Law International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
•  Schreiber, N., & Parker, J. F. (July, 2003). Witness confabulations: Long-term effects of inviting speculation on children's recall. Poster presented at APLS/EAPL Psychology and Law International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
•  Schreiber, N., & Parker, J. F. (2003, April). Inviting child witnesses to speculate: The impact of question format. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
• Schreiber, N., & Parker, J. F. (2002, March). Inviting Children to speculate: demand characteristics versus source monitoring.  Paper presented at the American Psychology and Law Society, Austin, TX.
• McDermott, J. A., Goldberg, A. & Parker, J. F.  (2001, April). Children's recall of a stressful event after a six year delay.  Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, MN.
• Parker, J.F., Tredoux, C., & Nunez, D. (March, 2000). Lineup Measures, lineup procedures, and optimality of encoding. Poster presented at the American Psychology and Law Society, New Orleans, LA.

• Identification behavior
• Source monitoring
• Hurricane memory
• Individual differences

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