J Scott Jordan
Professor
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 435
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- About
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Jordan studies the neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of cooperative behavior. He produces the Dark Loops Productions channel on YouTube, and is extremely proud of his international comic-book collection.
Current Courses
PSY 392.003 Senior Seminar
PSY 392.005 Senior Seminar
PSY 290.024 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
Teaching Interests & Areas
Learning and Cognition, Perception, Systems Theory, Senior Seminar (Otherland: A gamified approach to understanding the multi-scale 'othering' essential to being).
Research Interests & Areas
Consciousness, Volition, Action-Planning, Intentionality, Wild Systems Theory, Agency and Popular Culture
Book, Chapter
Excavating the Ruins of Tulsa's Greenwood District
Byron Craig, Steve Rahko, J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2024)
Wild selves: On the deeply historical, contextual emergence of self-sustaining systems
J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2021), 41-54, Psychology and Cognitive Archeology, Routledge
Forms of bias in cognitive science. Moving beyond perception, action, and cognition
J. Scott Jordan, Vincent Cialdella, Daniel Schloesser, Jiuyang S Bai.
(2018), Spatial biases in perception and cognition, Cambridge University Press
Seeing human: When and why do we perceive "human"?
Eric WESSELMANN, J. SCOTT Jordan.
(2018), Sterling
What lies at the center of the maze? Finding your "self" in a world made for suffering
J. Scott Jordan.
(2018), Westworld Psychology: Violent delights, Sterling
Whose mind is it, anyway? Defending conscious will in a Purple Man's world
J. Scott Jordan.
(2018), Daredevil psychology: The devil you know, Sterling
Balancing the warrior and the peace ambassador: Self-concepts and moral complexity.
Eric Wesselmann, Emilio J. C. Lobato, J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2017), Wonder Woman psychology: Lassoing the truth, Sterling
The trek through identity.
Eric Wesselmann, J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2017), Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier, Sterling
Wild heroes: The hard work of being "moral."
Eric Wesselmann, J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2016), 111-123, Captain America vs. Iron Man: Freedom, Security, Psychology, Sterling
The contextually grounded nature of prosocial behavior: A multi-scale, embodied approach to morality.
J Scott Scott Jordan, Eric Wesselmann.
(2015), Oxford handbook of prosocial behavior, Oxford University Press
Exploring the hidden kingdoms of assumption: Interview with Christopher Priest on Black Panther, culture, and the art of changing minds
J. Scott Jordan.
Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms, Sterling
Foregrounding the background: Cognitive science as the study of embodied context
J Scott Scott Jordan.
Sensible objects: Intercorporeality and enactive knowing through things
J Scott Scott Jordan.
Who is the Black Panther? The self as embodied others
J. Scott Jordan, Daniel Jun Kim.
Black Panther Psychology: Hidden Kingdoms, Sterling
Wild meaning: The intercorporeal nature of objects, bodies, and words
J Scott Scott Jordan.
Intercorporeality. Emerging socialities in interaction, Oxford University Press
Book, Edited
Contextuality from physics to psychology
J Scott Scott Jordan.
Conference Proceeding
Contextual events and their role in a two-choice Joint Simon task
Steve Croker, Jerome Scott Jordan, Vince Cialdella, Alex Dayer.
(2016)
The effects of racial similarity and dissimilarity on the joint Simon task
Steve Croker, J. Scott Jordan, Daniel Schloesser, Vincent ` Cialdella.
Cognitive Science Society, 489-494, (2015)
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
Election night live: An extending empathy project event
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rahko, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2022)
It's Hard Work Being No One
J. Scott Jordan.
Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 21, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02632, (2019), 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02632
Journal Article
WIld futures: Anticipating artificial anticipatory consciousness
J Scott Scott Jordan.
Mind and Matter, 19 (2), 137-165, (2021)
Multiscale contingencies in individual and joint action
J. Scott Jordan, Daniel S. Schloesser, Jiuyang S Bai, Drew Abney.
Topics in Cognitive Science, 10 (1), 36-54, (2018)
Consciousness and embodiment: They cycle of Holism
J. Scott Jordan.
Mind & Matter, 16 (1), 7-16, (2017)
Conflicts everywhere! Perceptions, actions, and cognition all entail memory and reflect conflict
Jerome Scott Jordan, David W Vinson.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, (2016), 10.1017/S0140525X15002125
Other
The divide: QAnon part two
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2022)
The Divide: THEM Part One
J Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Steve Hunt.
Dark Loops Podcast, (2021)
The Divide: THEM Part Two
J Scott Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
Dark Loops Podcast, (2021)
The divide: QAnon part one
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2021)
Presentations
Extending empathy and trust: Who to let in, who to keep out?
Stephen K. Hunt, J Scott Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rahko.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Boston, MA, May 31, 2023
Who watches the Watchmen?: Utilizing Twitter as a cultural space for collectively writing history
J Scott Scott Jordan, Nathan Carpenter, Byron Craig, Stephen Hunt.
WaynePop2020, Detroit, MI, September, 2020
Creating Culturally Responsive Academic Departments
Janet Wilson, Diane L Zosky, J Scott Scott Jordan, Tom Buller.
Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference, Normal, IL, October 24, 2017
Ostracism and false memory
Vincent T Cialdella, Eric Wesselmann, J Scott Scott Jordan.
Joint Action Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, July, 2015
The 'self' as embodied others: Implications for the moral aspects of joint action.
J Scott Scott Jordan, Eric Wesselmann.
Joint Action Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, July, 2015
Examining possible perceptual proxies of flow state.
D M Gill, J Scott Scott Jordan, Cooper Cutting.
55rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November, 2014
Motor dynamics in a joint action task
Stephen Frank Croker, Rubina Dhillon, Kaitlyn Vogel, J Scott Scott Jordan.
Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May, 2014
What’s in a name? Conceptual factors influence spatial perception during stimulus control
D M Gill, J Durtschi, Cooper Cutting, J Scott Scott Jordan.
53rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November, 2012
Who’s on the brakes? Controlling an event with another leads to changes in spatial perception
A Kenning, J Scott Scott Jordan, Cooper Cutting, J Clinton, J Durtschi.
84th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA, May, 2012
Searching for Perceptual Effects of the Economy of Action in Virtual Space
Daniel J Raver, J Scott Scott Jordan, Matthew Hesson-McInnis.
The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, October, 2008