Rate My Professor Gabriel Cook

Gabriel I. Cook, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychological Science in the Department of Psychological Science at Claremont McKenna College, where he joined the faculty in 2005. He holds a B.A. from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of Georgia. Cook's areas of expertise are cognition and memory. His research interests include the mechanisms of prospective memory and everyday intentions, decision criteria in source memory, applied aspects of prospective and source memories, metamemory and predictions about memory, and emotional influences on memory. He teaches courses such as Cognitive Psychology, Human Memory, Statistics for Psychology, Decision Making, and Data Science Using R. Additionally, he advises data science capstone projects and summer student research on topics like data visualizations, attention, interpretation, and decision making.

Cook has contributed significantly to the psychological literature through peer-reviewed publications in top journals. Key works include "Toward an understanding of motivational influences on prospective memory using value-added intentions" (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015, with Rummel and Dummel), "The Role of Interruptions and Contextual Associations in Delayed-Execute Prospective Memory" (Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2014, with Meeks, Clark-Foos, Merritt, and Marsh), "Investigating the subjective reports of rejection processes in the word frequency mirror effect" (Consciousness and Cognition, 2014, with Meeks, Knight, Brewer, and Marsh), "An observation on the spontaneous noticing of prospective memory event-based cues" (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011, with Knight, Meeks, Marsh, Brewer, and Hicks), and "Source monitoring is not always enhanced for valenced material" (Memory & Cognition, 2007, with Hicks and Marsh). He has served as principal investigator on grants, including "Shared Remembering in Romantic Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Diary Study of Intention Communication." Cook's research advances understanding of everyday memory functions related to events, goals, prospective memory, and source memory.