Gijsbert Stoet

Province:: Glasgow
Country:: United Kingdom

Street:

St. Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street

City:

Glasgow

Scotland

Title:

First name:

Gijsbert

Last name:

Stoet

I am Director of the MSc programme Psychological Studies [1], which is provided jointly by the School of Education and the School of Psychology at the University of Glasgow; this programme is a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited conversion course. Apart from this, I am carrying out research.

I develop software for use in the cognitive psychological laboratory: psytoolkit.gla.ac.uk [2]. This software is free of use and supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It comes with an online system, which allows you to programme and run psychological experiments in a browser. It comes with lessons and is ideally suited for use in psychology teaching as well (even for the A Levels).

Interests/Expertise:

My research interests are quite broad, and are strongly influenced by my education in Cognitive Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research and subsequent neurobiological research at the Medical School of Washington University in St.Louis. I have used a large variety of different measurement techniques, in particular single neuron recording, neuropharmacology, MRI, and behavioral measurements. My list of publications below illustrates this variety of research methods.

Currently, I combine basic cognitive research with more applied work, with a strong focus on understanding and improving educational achievement.

Most of my past and present research has been funded with grants from the ESRC, NIH, German Science Foundation (DFG), Max-Planck-Society, James S. McDonnell Foundation, British Academy, and Nuffield Foundation, and I would like to thank the funding organisations and collaborators for their support.

Examples of the topics and questions we explore are:

Gender differences in educational achievement. For example: Do boys and girls perform differently in mathematics or reading? To what extent are gender differences in educational achievement related to socio-economic factors?
Multi-tasking: How difficult is it to rapidly switch your attention between multiple tasks? How do people manage to multi-task, and why are some people better at it than others? Are women better multi-taskers than men? When and how do children develop the skill of multi-tasking? Do children with specific developmental disorders have a difficulty with multi-tasking?
Health psychology: How does people's capacity to control themselves (e.g., impulses) help them to live more healthily?

Selected publications:

Stoet, G. [3], and Geary, D.C. (2013) Sex differences in mathematics and reading achievement are inversely related: within- and across-nation assessment of 10 years of PISA data. [4] PLoS ONE [5], 8 (3). e57988. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057988 [6])

Rustichini, A., Mushtaq, F., Stoet, G. [3], Bland, A.R., and Schaefer, A. (2013) Relative Changes from Prior Reward Contingencies Can Constrain Brain Correlates of Outcome Monitoring. [7] PLoS ONE [5], 8 (6). e66350. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066350 [8])

Stoet, G. [3], and Snyder, L.H. (2012) The role of executive control in tool use. [9] Behavioral and Brain Sciences [10], 35 (04). pp. 240-241. ISSN 0140-525X (doi:10.1017/S0140525X1100210X [11])

Stoet, G. [3], and Geary, D.C. (2012) Can stereotype threat explain the gender gap in mathematics performance and achievement? [12] Review of General Psychology [13], 16 (1). pp. 93-102. ISSN 1089-2680 (doi:10.1037/a0026617 [14])

Stoet, G. [3] (2011) Sex differences in search and gathering skills. [15] Evolution and Human Behavior [16], 32 (6). pp. 416-422. ISSN 1090-5138 (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.03.001 [17])

Stoet, G. [3], and López, B. (2011) Task-switching abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder. [18] European Journal of Developmental Psychology [19], 8 (2). pp. 244-260. ISSN 1740-5629 (doi:10.1080/17405629.2010.492000 [20])

Stoet, G. [3] (2010) PsyToolkit: a software package for programming psychological experiments using Linux. [21] Behavior Research Methods [22], 42 (4). pp. 1096-1104. ISSN 1554-351X (doi:10.3758/BRM.42.4.1096 [23])

Stoet, G. [3] (2010) Sex differences in the processing of flankers. [24] Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology [25], 63 (4). pp. 633-638. ISSN 1747-0218 (doi:10.1080/17470210903464253 [26])

Books

Stoet, G. [3], and López, B. (2013) Task-switching skills in children between 9 and 16 years old. [27] In: Kar, B.R. (ed.) Cognition and Brain Development: Converging Evidence From Various Methodologies. American Psychological Association., Washington, D.C., USA. ISBN 9781433812712

Stoet, G. [3], and Snyder, L.H. (2007) Task-switching in human and non-human primates: understanding rule encoding and control from behavior to single neurons. [28] In: Bunge, S.A. and Wallis, J.D. (eds.) Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 227-254. ISBN 9780195314274

Stoet, G. [3], and Hommel, B. (2002) Feature integration between perception and action. [29] In: Prinz, W. and Hommel, B. (eds.) Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action Attention and Performance. Series: Attention and performance, XIX . Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 538-552. ISBN 9780198510697

Strohner, H., and Stoet, G. [3] (1999) Cognitive compositionality: an activation and evaluation hypothesis. [30] In: Hiraga, M.K., Sinha, C. and Wilcox, S. (eds.) Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 195-2029. ISBN 9789027236562