Summary Resume
JOHN H. MUELLER
Professor
Applied Psychology & Psychology
University of Calgary
(1990-2007, retired Dec. 31, 2007)
OFFICE ADDRESS: (avoid) HOME ADDRESS: (preferred)
Applied Psychology 4923 Vanguard Road, NW
330 Education Tower Calgary, Alberta T3A 0R5
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Telephone: 403-288-7342 (home) E-mail: mueller@ucalgary.ca
FORMER POSITIONS:
Professor of Psychology, 1976-1991, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1971-1976, Univ. of Missouri-Col.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1968-1971, Univ. of Missouri-Col.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, 1968, St. Louis University
B.S., Mathematics, 1964, University of Missouri--Columbia.
(Dual American/Canadian citizenship, August 31, 1994.)
Professor Mueller worked for over 35 years in the general area of human memory, especially the role of individual differences in emotional states as factors in learning. He has been or is a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Anxiety, Stress & Coping, J. Experimental Education, Canadian J. Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Research in Personality, Technology and Pedagogy in Education, and the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, and has served as a reviewer for numerous other professional journals, grant agencies, and publishing companies. He has published over 100 articles on human learning and cognition in various professional journals, book chapters, educational software packages, and has presented numerous papers at professional meetings.
His work has addressed test anxiety effects in learning, including interactions of test anxiety and study skills. This work has extended to other emotional processes, such as depression. His work has also examined how personal relevance affects cognitive processing. In addition, he has worked extensively in the area of face perception and face memory. His work has also examined how these aspects of information processing differ in young and elderly adults.
In the past 18 years, he has taught various courses in educational computing at the University of Calgary, specializing in accessing and using the global Internet as an educational resource, including the area of technology and stress. He has worked with various computer platforms since the mid-1960s, and programmed in several languages over the years, including HTML. He has taught courses on the Internet for Continuing Education at the University of Calgary, for the Calgary Freenet, and other organizations. He has been on the Board of Directors for the Calgary Freenet, has chaired the Education/Training Committee, and served as President of the Calgary Freenet Association. He has served as an Internet consultant to various businesses and schools. He has taught several on-line courses, using WebCT, Blackboard, Elluminate, and other distance education tools. Other interests include the history of psychology, and political constraints on scholarship.
(A complete academic curriculum vitae is available on request.)