Timothy D. Ritchie
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Dr. Tim Ritchie collaborates with scholars locally and internationally. He is a peer reviewer for more than 40 journals, grant agencies, and book publishing companies. Tim is a lead author and a coauthor on more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters
In 2014, Dr. Ritchie joined the Psychology Department at SXU as chairperson, and is now in a second term as the department chair. Tim earned tenure here in July of 2017
2009 to 2014: Lecturer (assistant professor, tenured), Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland
2007 to 2009: Research & Teaching Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Self & Identity, University of Southampton, England
2006: Ph.D. in Social and Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Illinois University
2002-2003, Tim facilitated Psychometric Data Analyst needs for the Riverside Publishing Company in Itasca, IL, working on the USA's states' standardized exam scores for grades K-12; he coauthored an article about computerized adaptive testing algorithms; and, contributed to other projects, including updates to the Stanford-Binet version 5 manual
1998 to 2001: Helped build a team of Quality Assurance Analysts for Product Development at IBM SPSS in Chicago, working on the flagship product, SPSS, including syntax, macro, script developments, product localization across languages and operating systems
1999: M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University Chicago
1997: B.S. in Psychology with a Philosophy minor from Loyola University Chicago
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Ethics and Morality
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Finkelstein, L. M., Allen, T. D., Ritchie, T. D., Lynch, J. E., & Montei, M. S. (2011). A dyadic examination of the role of relationship characteristics and age on relationship satisfaction in a formal mentoring programme. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2011.594574
- Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Odyssey's end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original homeric meaning. Emotion, 12, 102-119.
- Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y-F., Hansen, N., Abakoumkin, G., Arikan, G., Cisek, S. Z., Demassosso, D. B., Gebauer, J. E., Gerber, J., Gonzales, R., Kusumu, T., Misra, G., Rusu, M., Ryan, O., Stephan, E., Vingerhoets, A. J. J., & Zhou, X. (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14(4), 733-747. doi: 10.1037/a0036790
- Kingston, J. L., Clarke, S., Ritchie, T. D., & Remington, R. E. (2011). Developing and validating the "Composite Measure of Problem Behaviors." Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67, 736-751.
- Kinsella, E. L., Igou, E. R., & Ritchie, T. D. (2017). Heroism and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0022167817701002
- Kinsella, E. L., Ritchie, T. D., & Igou, E. R. (2017). On the bravery and courage of heroes: Considering gender. Heroism Science, 2, 1-14.
- Kinsella, E. L., Ritchie, T. D., & Igou, E. R. (2015). Zeroing in on heroes: A prototype analysis of hero features. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 114-127. doi: 10.1037/a0038463
- Ritchie, T. D., & Batteson, T. J. (2013). Perceived changes in ordinary autobiographical events’ affect and visual imagery colorfulness. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 461-470.
- Ritchie, T. D., Batteson, T. J., Bohn, A., Crawford, M. T., Ferguson, G. V., Schrauf, R. W., Vogl, R. J., & Walker, W. R. (2014). A pancultural perspective on the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.884138
- Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Skowronski, J. J. (2017). Does a person selectively recall the good or the bad from their personal past? It depends on the recall target and the person's favorability of self views. Memory, 25, 934-944. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1233984
- Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Skowronski, J. J. (2015). Emotions experienced at event recall and the self: Implications for the regulation of self-esteem, self-continuity and meaningfulness. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1031678
- Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Gidron, Y. (2011). Self-concept clarity mediates the relation between stress and subjective well-being. Self and Identity 10, 493-508.
- Ritchie, T. D., & Skowronski, J. J. (2008). Perceived change in the affect associated with dreams: The fading affect bias and its moderators. Dreaming, 18, 27-43.
- Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Hartnett, J. L., Wells, B. M., & Walker, W. R. (2009). The fading affect bias in the context of emotion activation level, mood, and personal theories of emotion change. Memory, 17, 428-444.
- Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Walker, W. R., & Wood, S. E. (2006). Comparing two perceived characteristics of autobiographical memory: Memory detail and accessibility. Memory, 14, 471-485.
- Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Wood, S. E., Walker, W. R., Vogl, R. J., & Gibbons, J. A. (2006). Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Self and Identity, 5, 172-195.
- Ritchie, T. D., Walker, W. R., Marsh, S., & Skowronski, J. J. (2015). Narcissism distorts the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.1002/acp.3082
- Sagarin, B. J., West, S. T., Ratnikov, A., Homan, W. K., Ritchie, T. D., & Hansen, E. J. (2014). Treatment noncompliance in randomized experiments: Statistical approaches and design issues. Psychological Methods, 19(3), 317-333. doi: 10.1037/met0000013
- Skowronski, J. J., Ritchie, T. D., Walker, W. R., Betz, A. L., Sedikides, C., Bethencourt, L. A., & Martin, A. L. (2007). Ordering our world: The quest for traces of temporal organization in autobiographical memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 850-856.
- Walker, W. R., Skowronski, J. J., Gibbons, J. A., Vogl, R. J., & Ritchie, T. D. (2009). Why people rehearse their memories: Frequency of use and relations to the intensity of emotions associated with autobiographical memories. Memory, 17, 760-773.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Analysis I & II (graduate)
- Behavioral Neuroscience (undergraduate)
- Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics (graduate)
- Individual & Group Therapy (undergraduate)
- Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate)
- Psychological Tests and Measures (graduate)
- Research Methods (undergraduate)
- Social Cognition (undergraduate)
- Social Influence & Attitude Chage (graduate)
- Statistics for the Social Sciences and Biostatistics (undergraduate)
- Stress management (undergraduate)
Timothy D. Ritchie
3700 West 103rd St.
Department of Psychology
Saint Xavier University
Chicago, Illinois 60655
United States of America
- Phone: 773-298-3759