James N. Forbes
Associate Professor of Psychology
| E-mail: | james.forbes@angelo.edu |
| Office: | A104D |
| Phone: | (325) 942-2068, Ext. 249 |
| Education: | 1981 - A.A., University of Maryland,
Iraklion, Crete, Greece 1988 - B.A., University of Washington (French) 1988 - B.S., University of Washington (Psychology) 1992 - M.S., University of Florida 1993 - Ph.D., University of Florida |
| At ASU since: | 1996 |
| Courses Taught: | Undergraduate: General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Intermediate
Statistics and Research Methods, History of Psychology, Seminar
in Psychological Research Graduate: Developmental Psychology |
| Research Interests: | Young children's language acquisition Bilingualism How language affects thinking (linguistic relativity) Development of investment literacy |
| Current Grants: | (2002-2004). National Institute of Health Grant.
($116,914) Toddlers’ Use of Actors Intentions to Learn Verbs. |
| Recent Work: | Forbes, J., Kara, M., Calloway, S.M., Goyle, A., & Lamoreaux, L. (Jun, 2006). Framing and Familiarity Influence Stock Investment Decisions. Paper presented at the 2006 Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY. Poulin-Dubois, D., & Forbes, J.N. (2006). Word, Intention, and Action: A two-tiered model of action word learning. In K Hirsh-Pasek & R.M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs. Oxford University Press. Forbes, J.N. & Bromfield, J.M. (Jul, 2004). How toddlers solve the two person event, verb packaging problem. Paper presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. Forbes, J.N., & Kara, M.S. (Jul, 2004). Investment knowledge, self-efficacy, and overconfidence in a university population. Paper presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. Sera, M., Leieff, C., Forbes, J., Clark-Burch, M., Rodriguez, W. & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002). When language affects cognition and when it does not: An analysis of grammatical gender and classification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 131(3), 377-397. |