Department of Psychology

About Dr. Pettibone

Jonathan C. Pettibone received his PhD in Experimental Psychology with a cognate in Quantitative Methods from the University of South Carolina in 2000.  He received his B.A. in Psychology from The College of Wooster in 1995. He is currently an Associate Professor in the in the Department of Psychology at SIUE. His teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate statistics and research methods, cognitive psychology, and judgment and decision making. His research interests involve the cognitive processes that determine our preferences for consumer and social stimuli. The majority of this work has focused on the influence of context on the construction of preference. These interests have resulted in publications in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Acta Psychogica, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Basic and Applied Social Psychology. In his spare time, Dr. Pettibone enjoys hiking, road biking, and mountain biking.

Mentoring Expertise

Dr. Pettibone has experience mentoring students with a desire to continue on to a PhD in Experimental, Cognitive, or Quantitative Psychology, as well as students interested in a career in behavioral economics or other behavioral sciences.

Representative Publications

• Hambrick, D.Z., Meinz, E. J., Pink, J. E., Pettibone, J. C., & Oswald, F.L. (2010). Learning outside the laboratory: Ability and non-ability influences on acquiring political knowledge. Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 40-45.
• Segrist, D.J. & Pettibone, J. (2009). Where’s the bar? Perceptions of heavy and problem drinking among college students. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 53, 35-53.
• Hambrick, D. Z., Pink, J. E., Meinz, E. J., Pettibone, J. C., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). The roles of ability, personality, and interests in acquisition of current events knowledge: A longitudinal study. Intelligence, 36, 261-278.
• Pettibone, J. C., & Wedell, D. H. (2007). Of gnomes and leprechauns: The recruitment of recent and categorical contexts in social judgment. Acta Psychologica, 125, 361-389.
• Pettibone, J. C., & Wedell, D. H. (2007). Testing alternative explanations of phantom decoy effects. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 323-341.
• Wedell, D. H., Santoyo, E. M., & Pettibone, J. C. (2005). The thick and the thin of it: Contextual effects in body perception. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27, 213-227.