Dr. Wagner is on sabbatical leave in Spring 2008

Professor & Department Chair
Department of Psychology
110 Parker Hall

Phone: 718-390-3311

Email: mwagner@wagner.edu

Education

l982 Ph.D. Dartmouth College (Psychology)

l978 B.A. South Dakota State University, Summa Cum Laude (Psychology/Mathematics)

Courses Taught   Experimental Psychology: Sensation and Perception Experimental Psychology: Environment History of Psychology Psychological Testing Introduction to Psychology Philosophy of Psychology Artificial Intelligence/ Computer Applications in Psychology

My Favorite Publications

Wagner, M., Baird, J. C., & Barbaresi, W. (l98l). The locus of environmental attention. Journal of Environmental Psychology, l, l95-206.

Baird, J. C., & Wagner, M. (l982). The moon illusion: I. How high is the sky? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, lll, 296-303.

Baird, J. C., Wagner, M., & Noma, E. (l982). Impossible cognitive spaces. Geographical Analysis, 14, 204-2l6. 

Wagner M. (l985). The metric of visual space. Perception & Psychophysics, 38, 483-495.

Baird, J. C., Wagner, M., & Fuld, K. (1990). A simple but powerful theory of the moon illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 675-678. 

Baird, J. C., & Wagner, M. (1991). Transformation theory of size judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 852-864.

Owens, D. A., & Wagner, M. (1992). Progress in modern psychology: The legacy of American Functionalism. New York: Praeger Press. 

Wagner, M., & Owens, D. A. (1992). Modern psychology and early Functionalism. In D. A. Owens & M. Wagner (Eds.), Progress in modern psychology: The legacy of American Functionalism. (Chapter 1, pp. 2-16). New York: Praeger Press.

Owens, D. A., & Wagner, M. (1995). Not all psychology is Functional psychology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 31, 228-235.

Wagner, M. (2006). The geometries of visual space. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Wagner, M. (2007). Cognition and visuospatial thinking. American Journal of Psychology, 120, 497-503.

Wagner, M. (in press). Is a science of consciousness possible? In The Academy of Consciousness Studies. I. Cutler (ed.). Princeton University Press.

My Favorite Presentations

Modeling the creation of cognitive maps. Invited address: Conference on Spatial Orientation, University of Minnesota, July l980 (with John C. Baird). 

The moon illusion: New perspectives on an old problem. Invited address presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Seattle, WA, May l986.

Dark vergence and size perception. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, May 1986 (with Rick Tyrrell and Fred Owens). 

The perception of length for objects oriented in-depth as a function of distance, judgment method, and instructions. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Stirling, Scotland, July 1988 (with Heather Kartzinel).

Writing tutorial software for psychology education. Invited symposium address presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 1988. 

Reinterpreting the size-distance invariance hypothesis. Invited symposium address presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 1989.

The measurable properties of three-dimensional visual space. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Cassis, France, October 1989 (with Evan Feldman). 

A psychophysical analysis of the development of cognitive maps. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Wurzburg, Germany, August 1990 (with Evan Feldman)

Personality factors as determinants of religious beliefs. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, April 1995 (with Francine Spinowitz). 

The influence of personality on advertisement preferences. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC, April 1997 (with Frances-Ann Sciotto).

Effects of family structure and social support on fear of failure, Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC, 1998 (with Carolyn Oglio).

From spatial perception to cognitive maps: Memory, psychophysics and Weber's law. Paper presented at the International Society for Psychophysics, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 1998.

Cloudy weather increases anxiety and road rage.. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA, June 2002 (with Rena Primiano, Jennifer Genovese, Angela Zicherman, Jeanine Giavanonne & Daniel Schwartz).

Affects of family conflict on self-concept and attitudes toward romantic relationships. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA, May, 2003 (with Gina Ferreri).

Inattentional blindness to non-focal details increases with eccentricity and varies by gender. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, May, 2004 (with Lisa Ginetto, Lindsay Halperin & Melissa Mason).

Affects of weather on anger and anxiety. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA, May 2005 (with Steven Lyman, Ali Akhund, Christine McGrath, & Nichole M. Davis).

A meta-analysis of the effects of context on judgements of size and distance.  Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Traverse City, MI, October, 2005.

Effects of yoga on anxiety, anger, and depression. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, May 2007 (with Kat Pungdumri).

Instructional Software

Wagner, M., Ono, H., & Ono, K. (1995). The classic psychophysical methods (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Ono, H., Wagner, M., & Ono, K. (1995). Accuracy and precision (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Fellowships, Seminars, and Grants

Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship, l978-l979
Dartmouth Fellowship, l979-l982
Post-doctoral Fellowship (NSERCT Grant), l982-l984
NSF Grant No. CSI-8750413 ($33,398) 1987-1989
Princeton Academy of Consciousness, 1994

Reviewer for Areas of Specialization

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Environmental Psychology
Perception and Psychophysics History of Psychology
Acta Psychologica Mathematical Psychology
Psychological Research Perception
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Philosophical Psychology
Human Perception and Performance Psychophysics
New Ideas in Psychology
National Science Foundation
Czech Science Foundation
Israel Science Foundation