Dr. Michael Young received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities in 1995. Mike began his career as a computer scientist out of the University of Illinois in 1984 with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. After completing his Ph.D., Mike was at the University of Iowa as a postdoctoral associate and adjunct assistant professor. Dr. Young's primary research program involves the study of causal decision making and event dynamics. He is currently studying the variables that influence the identification of causes in continuously unfolding environments. He continues to integrate his background in computer science with his interest in psychology through the development of computational models of environment-behavior relations.

Michael Young Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology 271F Life Sciences II Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 Phone: (618) 453-3567 Fax: (618) 453-3563 E-mail: meyoung@siu.edu Home Page Research Lab Young Cognition Laboratory Undergraduate Courses PSYC 211: Research Methods in Psychology PSYC 489: Dog Behavior PSYC 471/528: Judgment and Decision Making PSYC 489: Predicting the Future: Mind or Mathematics? Graduate Courses PSYC 575: Computational Modeling Collaborators Ed Wasserman Aaron Blaisdell Olga Lazareva Josh Beckmann Olga Falmier Roberto Limongi

Young, M.E. (invited).  Contemporary thought on the environmental cues that determine causal decisions.  To appear in T.R. Zentall & E.A. Wasserman (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Cognition. 

Young, M.E., & Sutherland, S. (in press). The spatiotemporal distinctiveness of direct causation.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Beckmann, J.S., & Young, M.E. (in press).  The effects of stimulus dynamics on temporal discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Wasserman, E.A., & Young, M.E. (in press).  Same-different discrimination: The keel and backbone of thought and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Young, M.E., & Nguyen, N. (2009).  The problem of delayed causation in a video game: Constant, varied, and filled delays.  Learning and Motivation, 40, 298-312.

Young, M.E., Clark, M.H, Goffus, A., Hoane, M.R. (2009). Mixed effects modeling of Morris water maze data: Advantages and cautionary notes. Learning and Motivation, 40, 160-177.

Young, M.E., & Racey, D. (2009).  Judgments of creativity as a function of visual stimulus variability. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 27, 91-109.

Young, M.E. (2008).  Nonlinear judgment analysis: Comparing policy use by those who draft and those who coach. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9, 760-774.

Lazareva, O.F., Miner, M., Wasserman, E.A., and Young, M.E. (2008).  Multiple-pair training enhances transposition in pigeons.  Learning and Behavior, 36, 174-187.

Falmier, O., & Young, M.E. (2008).  The impact of perceived animacy on causal judgments. American Journal of Psychology, 121, 473-500.

Young, M.E., & Falmier, O. (2008).  Launching at a distance: The effect of spatial markers.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1356-1370.

Young, M.E., & Falmier, O. (2008).  Color change as a causal agent: Revisited.  American Journal of Psychology, 121, 129-157.

Young, M.E., Wasserman, E.A., & Ellefson, M.R. (2007).  A theory of variability discrimination: Finding differences.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 805-822.

Beckmann, J.S., & Young, M.E. (2007).  The feature positive effect in the face of variability:  Novelty as a feature. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 72-77.