Arien Mack
Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology (CSD)
Email
mackarie@newschool.edu
Office Location
G - 80 Fifth Avenue
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Arien Mack is the Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, where she has edited Social Research since 1970. She established the Social Research conference series in 1988, and she continues to direct it through the Center for Public Scholarship, which she founded and directs. Arien is also the founder and director of the Journal Donation Project, which makes low-cost academic and reserach journals available to libraries and universities in countries where access to those publications has been difficult for political reasons. In 2007, she launched Endangered Scholars Worldwide, dedicated to drawing attention to the plight of scholars, students, and researchers around the world whose lives and livelihoods are under threat due to the nature of their work or political positions. As a research psychologist, her current interests focus on perception, cognition, and attention. She teaches graduate-level psychology courses and oversees a research lab at The New School for Social Research. Her publications include more than 60 articles and the coauthored volume Inattentional Blindness (MIT Press 1998).
Degrees Held
PhD 1966, Yeshiva University
Recent Publications
- "Scene incongruity and attention," Consciousness and Cognition, 2017
- "No Iconic Memory Without Attention," Consciousness and Cognition, 2016
- "Attention is necessary for iconic Memory," Journal of Vision, 2014
- "Iconic memory for the gist of natural scenes," Consciousness and Cognition, 2014
- "Appropriately colored scenes reduce in attentional blindness," Journal of Vision, 2013
- "Gist Perception Requires Attention," Visual Cognition, (Mack, A. and Clarke, J. , 2012)
- "Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing," Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2003
- "Meaning and Attention," Journal of Consciousness Studies (coauthor, 2002)
- "What We See: Inattention and the Capture of Attention by Meaning," Consciousness and Cognition (coauthor), 2002
- Technology and the Rest of Culture, editor, (Ohio University Press, 2001)
- "Is the World a Grand Illusion?" Journal of Consciousness Studies (2001)
- Inattentional Blindness (coauthor, MIT Press 1998)
Research Interests
Concentrations: Visual perception; consciousness and cognition; meaning and attention; experimental psychology.
Current Courses
Independent Study
Independent Study (Spring 2020)
Senior Work Project