Faculty Profiles

Andrea O'Rear

Andrea O'Rear

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Spes Unica 321

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Education 

BA, Ohio Northern University
MA, University of Notre Dame
PhD, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests 

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Memory
  • Event Structure
  • Episodic Future Thinking

Courses Recently Taught 

  • PSYC 156: Introduction to Psychology: Culture and Systems
  • PSYC 364: Cognitive Psychology
  • PSYC 325: Research Methods
  • PSYC 493: Quantitative Senior Seminar

Creative and Scholarly Work 

  • O’Rear, A. E., & Radvansky, G. A. (2020). Encoding and referent event influence on retrospective memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1747021820982602
  • O'Rear, A. E., & Radvansky, G. A. (2019). Failure to accept retractions: A contribution to the continued influence effect. Memory & Cognition. Advance online publication. doi:10.3758/s13421-019-00967-9
  • O'Rear, A. E., & Radvansky, G. A. (2019). Location-based prospective memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3), 491-507. doi:10.1177/1747021818758608
  • Bowman, M. A., Cunningham, T. J., Levin-Aspenson, H., O'Rear, A. E., Pauszek, J. R., Ellickson-Larew, S., Martinez, B., & Payne, J. D. (2019). Anxious, but not depressive, symptoms are associated with poorer prospective memory performance in healthy college students: Preliminary evidence using the tripartite model of anxiety and depression. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 41(7), 694-703. doi:10.1080/13803395.2019.1611741
  • Radvansky, G. A., O'Rear, A. E., & Fisher, J. S. (2017). Event models and the fan effect. Memory & Cognition, 45(6), 1028-1044. doi:10.3758/s13421-017-0713-4

Professional Memberships 

  • Psychonomic Society
  • Midwestern Psychological Association