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Jeffrey Gibbons is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Christopher Newport University (CNU), College of Arts and Sciences. He has been teaching at CNU for 23 years, following a two-year teaching position at Carthage College. His academic work is rooted in cognitive and experimental psychology with a strong focus on memory processes.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Psychology, Kansas State University
- M.S. in Psychology, Kansas State University
- B.A. in Psychology, Western Michigan University
His research explores how people remember emotional and self-defining life events, particularly focusing on the fading affect bias, autobiographical memory, and encoding specificity. He investigates how factors like age, rehearsal, and media exposure influence memory and emotional retention over time. His work bridges objective memory measures with self-reported experiences, contributing to both theoretical and applied understanding of human memory.
The recent publications show a consistent trend in studying affective dynamics in autobiographical memory across the lifespan, with a special interest in how negative emotions persist and how behaviors like video gaming may disrupt natural emotional fading in memory. His work appears in high-quality journals such as Consciousness and Cognition and Experimental Aging Research.
Scientific Awards:
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Jeffrey Gibbons advises students in psychology research, particularly at the undergraduate level, though no specific graduate students or doctoral advisees are listed. He has not received mention of external grants in the provided content. He teaches core courses including Introductory Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, and advanced seminars in Cognition and Memory.
There is no mention of specific labs, research teams, or collaborative research centers in the available text.
