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I am associate professor of psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland. I teach courses about perception, cognition, research methods, statistics, writing, and more.
I direct the Perception Action Lab where my research students and I study the behaviors and psychological processes related to music, language, data science, and climate change. See my OSF profile including public datasets and project material.
Learn more about my courses and my research by exploring the rest of the site. If you want to join the lab or ask for a letter of recommendation, please read information for students.
Contact me: jtmantell@smcm.edu
Diversity is our strength
The creation and dissemination of knowledge within a free society depends on our commitment to embrace the immeasurable benefits of personal, cultural, and intellectual diversity. Ideas are developed by people and all persons develop multiple sociocultural identities that influence how they understand the world. I commit to use my power and privilege to minimize systemic oppressive forces within the classroom and our society to promote learning for everyone.
A note about office hours (Fall 2025)
Please visit on Monday, 2:30 – 3:30 pm or Friday, 10:00 – 11:00 am, or whenever my office door is open, to discuss anything you’d like. You may also send me an email to schedule an in-person or virtual meeting. Welcome!
Updates
Updates
9/2025 Welcome to the lab: directed research students Kaylee Holston and Laila Mitchell
5/2025 Congratulations to graduates and lab alumni Elizabeth Poissant and Raven Davis!
2/2025 My federally funded research has been blacklisted by Senator Ted Cruz for shamelessly promoting science education. I adapted an OSF badge to celebrate my radical educator values.
1/2025 Welcome back to the lab: directed research students Elizabeth Poissant, Raven Davis, and Colin VanBronkhorst. They are continuing their research from fall PSYC 396.
11/2024 Carla Wilson (class of 23') and I presented a poster (with sound examples) on our ruffled music paradigm at the Psychonomic Society conference
8/2024 I have been appointed an Aldom-Plansoen Honors College Professorship
1/2024 Welcome to the lab: directed research student Jonathan Parsons
11/2023 Rachel Thompson (class of '19) and I have published a paper in Musicae Scientiae. You can access our data on OSF.
8/2023 I began my appointment as department chair
7/2023 Aileen Bailey and I have been awarded an NSF grant for our project titled Developing Modernized Data Science Instruction in Psychology Curricula
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