Department of Psychology

About Dr. Meeks

J. Thadeus Meeks received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Georgia in Cognitive Psychology.  He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department here at SIUE.  Dr. Meeks presently teaches Cognitive Psychology, Research Methods and Statistics, and Foundations of Psychology.  His research interests broadly revolve around human learning and memory.  More specifically, he is interested in such topics as how we remember to complete our intentions (prospective memory), how we remember the source of information, and how we experience the different varieties of memory.  His research has been published in such journals as Memory & Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and the Journal of Memory and Language.  Dr. Meeks also enjoys sports, outdoor activities, and cooking.

Representative Publications

• Meeks, J. T., Hicks, J. L., & Marsh, R. L. (2007).  Metacognitive awareness of event-based prospective memory.  Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal. 16(4), 997-1004.
• Marsh, R. L., Meeks, J. T., Hicks, J. L., Cook, G. I. & Clark-Foos, A (2006). Concreteness and item-to-list context associations in the free recall of items differing in context variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 32(6), 1424-1430.
• Cook, G. I., Marsh, R. L., Clark-Foos, A. & Meeks, J. Thadeus (2007). Learning is impaired by activated intentions, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14(1), 101-106.
• Clark-Foos, A.,Brewer, G.A., Marsh, R. L., Meeks, J. T., & Cook, G. I. (2009). The valence of event-based prospective memory cues or the context in which they occur affects their detection, American Journal of Psychology. 122(1), 89-97.