Education
B.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1988
M.A., University of California, San Diego 1993
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 1997
Current Teaching
Statistics (PSY 360)
Behavioral Neuroscience (PSY 426)
Abnormal Psychology (PSY 436)
Research Interests
Human Memory
Recent Publications
Wixted, J. T. & Stretch, V. (2004). In defense of the signal-detection interpretation of Remember/Know judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11 (4), 616-641.
Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (2000). The case against a criterion-shift account of false memory. Psychological Review, 107, 368-376. (Times cited = 26)
Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). On the difference between strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 24, 1379-1396. (Times cited = 33)
Stretch, V., & Wixted, J. T. (1998). Decision rules for recognition memory confidence judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 24, 1397-1410. (Times cited = 22)
Zhu, S., Stretch, V., Balabanis, M., Rosbrook, B., Sadler, G., & Pierce, J. (1996). Telephone counseling for smoking cessation: Effects of single-session and multiple-session intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 201-211. (Times cited = 80)
Ebbesen, E. B., & Stretch, V. (1995). Survey and Analysis for Change of Venue in: People v. Richard Allen Davis; Sonoma County. Technical Report.
Recent Presentations
Stretch, V., Clifford, R., Cipolla, E., Taylor, A. Headley, V., & Foretich, D. (2004). Encoding Conditions and Personality Effects on a Recognition Task. Poster presentation at the 84th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Phoenix, Arizona.
Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (2003). What does signal detection theory predict about remember/know responses?. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
Wixted, J. T., & Stretch, V. (1996). Strength-based and frequency-based mirror effects in recognition memory. Paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.
