Rate My Professor Dawn McBride

Dawn M. McBride is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Illinois State University, where she has served since August 1998. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 1999. McBride's research focuses on human memory, including false memory via the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, prospective memory involving time- and event-based cues and delays, task order decisions such as precrastination in cognitive tasks, and facial recognition with emphasis on emotional expressions and forgetting rates. She directs the Human Memory Lab, exploring applications to real-world contexts like memory errors in aging populations, crimes, and interpersonal arguments. McBride proposed and teaches PSY 368: Human Memory and has mentored numerous students who advanced to faculty positions, including Dr. Jennifer Coane at Colby College, Dr. Chris Wahlheim at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Elizabeth Marsh.

McBride is the author of key textbooks such as The Process of Research in Psychology (Sage Publications, 2023), Psychology (with J. S. Nairne, Sage Publications, 2022), and Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology (with J. C. Cutting and C. Zimmerman, Sage Publications, 2022). Selected publications include "A comparison of conscious and automatic memory processes for picture and word stimuli: A process dissociation analysis" (Consciousness and Cognition, 2002), "False memory in a short-term memory task" (Experimental Psychology, 2007), "The role of test structure in creating false memories" (Memory & Cognition, 2006), "Effects of delay of prospective memory cues in an ongoing task on prospective memory task performance" (Memory & Cognition, 2011), and "Manipulations of list type in the DRM paradigm: A review of how structural and conceptual similarity affect false memory" (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021). She received the Outstanding Faculty Member award from the Department of Psychology Spring Honors Colloquium and a University Teaching Initiative Award in 1998.