Joel Alexander, Ph.D. is a Professor and the Chair of the Psychology Division at Western Oregon University (WOU). Dr. Alexander is the director of the WOU Neurocognitive Laboratory with a research focus on memory updating and how it is affected by individual differences, cognitive sets, and emotional self-evaluation. His professional experience includes clinical neuropsychological assessment and instructing behavioral disorders classrooms.
Dr. Alexander’s expert consulting background incorporates work in youth courts and the juvenile justice system, the state of Oregon and McGraw Hill Publishers. He is the author of numerous articles related to memory updating recorded via behavioral and brain activity measures related to giftedness, learning disabilities, gender, handedness, sexual orientation, criminality, and metacognition. Dr. Alexander has published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, Developmental Neuropsychology, Cognitive Brain Research, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Cognition, and Psychology, Evolution and Gender.
He received his Doctoral degree from Iowa State University and interned at the Scripps Research Institute’s department of Neuropharmacology. Dr. Alexander is a member of Psychonomics, the Society for Psychophysiological Research, the American Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and Phi Kappa Phi.