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Department ofPsychology

Matthew Bell

Matthew Bell

Professor

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Research
  • Stimulus control
  • Aging & remembering
  • Scholarship of teaching & learning in psychology
Courses
  • PSYC 1: General Psychology I
  • PSYC 50: Ways of Knowing
  • PSYC 51: Statistics and Methods 1
  • PSYC 99: Honors in Psychology
  • PSYC 114: Ethics in Psychology
  • PSYC 130: Psychology of Learning
  • PSYC 140: Behavior Analysis
Publications

Recent Work (underlined names indicate undergraduate co-authors)

Bell, M. C., & Baum, W. M. (2021). Resistance to extinction versus extinction as discrimination. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 

Sanabria, F., & Bell, M. C. (2020). Failure to find a distance effect in pigeon choice: Manipulating amount and delay of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 114(3), 276-290. 

Bell, M. C. (2018). Winter is coming to the experimental analysis of behavior. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 18(2), 184-192. doi:10.1037/bar0000130

Bell, M. C., & Baum, W. M. (2017). Concurrent variable‐interval variable‐ratio schedules in a dynamic choice environment. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 108(3), 367-397. doi:10.1002/jeab.286

Maclean, A. C., Bell, M. C., & Simone, P. M. (2017). Interference effects, age, and the spacing benefit. The American Journal of Psychology, 130, 295-302. doi:10.5406/amerjpsyc.130.3.0295

Bell, M. C., & Sanabria, F. (2017). Failure to find a distance effect in pigeon choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 108, 1-16. doi:10.1002/jeab.259

Bercovitz, K. E., Bell, M. C., Simone, P. M., & Wiseheart, M. (2016). Spacing effect in older and younger adults: Does context matter? Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2016.1251552

Bell, M. C., Simone, P. M., & Whitfield, L. C. (2016). Implementation of best practices in online learning: A review and future directions. EDULEARN16 Proceedings. doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2016.0724

Reiss, A. J., & Bell, M. C. (2016). Effect of a single free food presentation on extinction responding in a multiple schedule, Behavioural Processes, 130, 46-52.

Bell, M. C., Simone, P. M., & Whitfield, L. C. (2016). Evaluation of 'out-of- the-box' textbook technology supplements on student learning. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 112-124. doi:10.1037/stl0000057

Bell, M. C., Simone, P. M., & Whitfield, L. C. (2015). Failure of online quizzing to improve performance in introductory psychology courses. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 1, 163-171. doi:10.1037/stl0000020

Zigterman, J.R., Bell, M. C., & Simone, P. M. (2015). Within-session spacing improves delayed recall in children, Memory, 23, 625-632. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.915975