Schwartz, Bennett
- Professor, Psychology , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
Contact Info

Overview
overview
- Bennett L. Schwartz is a Professor of Psychology at Florida International University. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Long Island ( New York), he earned both his Bachelor’s degree (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He then moved to Florida International University in Miami, Florida, where he has been ever since. He does research on metamemory, human memory, and a variety of other interesting topics. He has published close to 100 journal articles, chapters, and books. His textbook, Memory: Foundations and Applications; 4th edition (Sage Publications, 2021) is an accessible textbook on memory science presented in clear and understandable language. His textbook (with John Krantz), Sensation and Perception: 2nd edition (2019) has also been successful. He is past-president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. He is currently editor of New Ideas in Psychology and Associate Editor of Metacognition and Learning and Acta Psychologica. He teaches course in Memory, Cognitive Psychology, and Sensation and Perception.
research interests
- Dr. Schwartz's research areas include metacognition, memory, and the neurological bases of consciousness. In particular, ongoing projects include research on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and metacognition.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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2021The MAPS model of self-regulation: Integrating metacognition, agency, and possible selves. METACOGNITION AND LEARNING.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11409-020-09255-3 Web of Science: 000605127600001
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2020Epistemic curiosity and the region of proximal learning. CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. 35:40-47.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.06.007 Web of Science: 000613916900007
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2020Effect of processing fluency on metamemory for written music in piano players. PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC. 48:693-706.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0305735618817925 Web of Science: 000573524300006
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2018Ease-of-learning judgments are based on both processing fluency and beliefs. MEMORY. 26.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1410849 Web of Science: 000432247400008
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2018The basis of feeling-of-knowing judgments in patients with schizophrenia. METACOGNITION AND LEARNING. 13:91-108.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11409-018-9179-4 Web of Science: 000427403400005
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2017Alcohol Intoxication and Metamemory: Little Evidence that Moderate Intoxication Impairs Metacognitive Monitoring Processes. APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 31:573-585.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.3373 Web of Science: 000414759800001
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2017Deaf hearing: Implicit discrimination of auditory content in a patient with mixed hearing loss. PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 30:21-43.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2016.1268680 Web of Science: 000401152100002
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2017The tip-of-the-tongue state and curiosity. COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s41235-017-0065-4 Web of Science: 000441799900031
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2016Methodological concerns: the feeling-of-knowing task affects resolution. METACOGNITION AND LEARNING. 11:305-316.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11409-015-9152-4 Web of Science: 000387232100003
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2014Contextual information influences the feeling of knowing in episodic memory. CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 29:96-104.
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2014Tip-of-the-Tongue (TOT) States: Mechanisms and Metacognitive Control. TIP-OF-THE-TONGUE STATES AND RELATED PHENOMENA. 15-31.Web of Science: 000339821800002
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2014Why Tip-of-the-Tongue States Are Important. TIP-OF-THE-TONGUE STATES AND RELATED PHENOMENA. 1-14.Web of Science: 000339821800001
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2011The effect of being in a tip-of-the-tongue state on subsequent items. MEMORY & COGNITION. 39:245-250.
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2011Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states: retrieval, behavior, and experience. MEMORY & COGNITION. 39:737-749.
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2010English Speakers Attend More Strongly Than Spanish Speakers to Manner of Motion When Classifying Novel Objects and Events. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL. 139:638-653.
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2008Working memory load differentially affects tip-of-the-tongue states and feeling-of-knowing judgments. MEMORY & COGNITION. 36:9-19.
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2007Dissociation between the cognitive process and the phenomenological experience of TOT: Effect of the anxiolytic drug lorazepam on TOT states. CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 16:360-373.
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2005Tip-of-the-tongue states and aging: Contrasting psycholinguistic and metacognitive perspectives. JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY. 132:377-391.Full Text via DOI: 10.3200/GENP.132.4.377-391 Web of Science: 000232329400006
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2004Event memory and misinformation effects in a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). ANIMAL COGNITION. 7.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0194-7 Web of Science: 000221649900004
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2003Feeling-of-knowing in episodic memory: an event-related fMRI study. NEUROIMAGE. 18.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S1063-8119(03)00014-4 Web of Science: 000182606000002
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2002Single-trial learning of "what" and "who" information in a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): implications for episodic memory. ANIMAL COGNITION. 5.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10071-002-0132-0 Web of Science: 000178728900004
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2001The relation of tip-of-the-tongue states and retrieval time. MEMORY & COGNITION. 29.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/BF03195746 Web of Science: 000167246900012
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2000The phenomenology of real and illusory tip-of-the-tongue states. MEMORY & COGNITION. 28.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/BF03211571 Web of Science: 000085559400003
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1999Sparkling at the end of the tongue: The etiology of tip-of-the-tongue phenomenology. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/BF03210827 Web of Science: 000083078400002
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1998Illusory tip-of-the-tongue states. MEMORY. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/741943371 Web of Science: 000076676500003
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1998The relation of output order and commission errors in free recall and eyewitness accounts. MEMORY. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/741942362 Web of Science: 000073336200002
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1998The mismeasure of memory: When retrieval fluency is misleading as a metamnemonic index. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL. 127.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.127.1.55 Web of Science: 000072246700004
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1997The inferential and experiential bases of metamemory. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.ep10772899 Web of Science: 000072848900004
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1997The retrieval of related information influences tip-of-the-tongue states. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE. 36.Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.2471 Web of Science: A1997WB83400006
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1996Amnesia and metamemory demonstrate the importance of both metaphors. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00042345 Web of Science: A1996VW46700024
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1994SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN METAMEMORY - JUDGMENTS OF LEARNING AND FEELINGS OF KNOWING. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW. 1.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/BF03213977 Web of Science: A1994PM06200011
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Book
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Book Chapter
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2020Epilogue. 325-327.
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Book Review
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2009BRIDGING COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: LEARNING, MEMORY, AND METACOGNITION. Ed. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.1458 Web of Science: 000262021000011
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2008BRIDGING COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: LEARNING, MEMORY, AND METACOGNITION. Ed. 22.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.1493 Web of Science: 000261820800013
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2005A wonderful tide through the world of agnosia. Ed. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.1156 Web of Science: 000233827100009
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2000Trauma and memory.. Ed. 14.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/1099-0720(200011/12)14:6<594::AID-ACP710>3.0.CO;2-R Web of Science: 000165546600008
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Editorial Material
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2014Metacognition Does Not Imply Self- Reflection, but It Does Imply Function. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 150-151.
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2013Episodic-like animals, functional faces, and a defense of accuracy. JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION. 243-245.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.09.004 Web of Science: 000209365600008
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2009What monkeys can tell us about metacognition and mindreading. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES. 150-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09000685 Web of Science: 000269684500015
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2003Implicit metacognition, explicit uncertainty, and the monitoring/control distinction in animal metacognition. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES.Web of Science: 000222579800042
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Proceedings Paper
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2015Processes Underlying The Introspective Ability Of Patients With Schizophrenia Towards Their Memory Accuracy. PLURALISM IN PSYCHIATRY, VOL II.Web of Science: 000367949700011
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Review
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2020Continuous flash suppression: Known and unknowns. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW. 1071-1103.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01771-2 Web of Science: 000548775100003
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2012Metamemory and memory efficiency: Implications for student learning. JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION. 145-151.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.06.002 Web of Science: 000209365100001
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2005Episodic-like memory in a gorilla: A review and new findings. LEARNING AND MOTIVATION. 226-244.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2005.02.012 Web of Science: 000229363900009
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2004Episodic memory in nonhumans: what, and where, is when?. CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.03.006 Web of Science: 000221430600009
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2001Episodic memory in primates. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1041 Web of Science: 000171190500001
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Coffman, Kimberly, Intuition and its component parts in the heuristic processing of deception detection : hunch, evidence, and reliance on intuitive efficacy 2010
- Allen, Melinda R., Mirror self-recognition in a gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla) 2007
- Berg, Richard Allan, Effect of delay of first interview and repetition of interview on accuracy and confidence of recall of a flashbulb-type memory 2000
Research
principal investigator on
- APA Minorities in Psychology. awarded by General Medical Sciences 2004 - 2010
Teaching
teaching overview
- Dr. Schwartz teaches the following courses: Cognitive Processes, Memory and Memory improvement, and Sensation and Perception.
Contact
full name
- Bennett Schwartz
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