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Tim Ritchie

Title:Coord Educ Quality & Assmnt
Email:ritchie@sxu.edu
Department: Inst. Research & Assessment

Biography

Dr. Ritchie collaborates with scholars locally and internationally, is a peer reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals, and an author on +50 peer-reviewed journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters.


Education

Ph.D. in Social and Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Northern Illinois University

M.A. in Clinical Psychology
Roosevelt University Chicago

B.S. in Psychology
Loyola University Chicago

Areas of Specialization

  • Autobiographical Memory
  • Emotion
  • Social Cognition
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Subjective Well-being

Courses Taught

  • PSYCH 242: Stress Management
  • PSYCH 300: Statistics for the Social Sciences
  • PSYCH 301: Research Methods
  • PSYCH 311: Physiological Psychology
  • PSYCH 325: Individual and Group Therapy
  • PSYCH 391: Directed Research
  • PSYCH 399: Independent Study
  • HONOR 320: Interdisciplinary Seminar: On Heroism
  • HONOR 352/353: Honors Senior Project
  • GERON 395: Capstone Project

Publications

Bunting, S. R., Calabrese, S. K., Spigner, S. T., Goetz, T. G., Morrison, S. D., Zucker, S. M., Ritchie, T. D., Garber, S. S., & Batteson, T. J. (2022). Evaluating medical students’ views of the complexity of sexual minority patients and implications for care. LGBT Health. 9(5):348-358. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2021.0023

Bunting, S. R., Calabrese, S. K., Garber, S. S., Ritchie, T. D., & Batteson, T. J. (2021). Where do health professions students learn about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PeEP) for HIV prevention? Medical Science Educator. doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01265-3

Bunting, S. R., Chirica, M. G., Ritchie, T. D., Garber, S. S., & Batteson, T. J. (2020). A national study of medical students' attitudes toward sexual and gender minority populations: Evaluating the effects of demographics and training. LGBT Health. doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0288

Bunting, S. R., Garber, S. S., Goldstein, R. H., Calabrese, S. K., Ritchie, T. D., & Batteson, T. J. (2020). Health professions students' awareness, knowledge, and confidence regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): Results of a national, multidisciplinary survey. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001263

Bunting, S. R., Garber, S. S., Goldstein, R. H., Ritchie, T. D., Batteson, T. J., & Keyes, T. (2020). Student education about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) varies between regions of the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine. doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05736-y

Ritchie, T. D., Kitsch, K. S., Dromey, M., & Skowronski, J. J. (2018). Individuals who report eating disorder symptoms also exhibit a disrupted fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1502321

Kinsella, E. L., Ritchie, T. D., & Igou, E. R. (2017). On the bravery and courage of heroes: Considering gender. Heroism Science, 2(1), 1-14.

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

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

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.org/10.1037/a0038463

Ritchie, T. D., Walker, W. R., Marsh, S., Hart, C., & Skowronski, J. J. (2015). Narcissism distorts the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 104-114. doi.org/10.1002/acp.3082

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, 733-747. doi: 10.1037/a0036790

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, 23, 278-290. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.884138

Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Cadogan, S., & Sedikides, C. (2014). Affective responses to self-defining autobiographical events. Self and Identity, 13, 513.534. doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2013.863222

Sagarin, B. J., West, S. T., Ratnikov, A., Homan, W. K., Ritchie, T. D., & Hansen, E. J. (2014). Treatment non-compliance in randomized experiments: Statistical approaches and design issues. Psychological Methods, 19, 317-333. doi: 10.1037/met0000013

Ritchie, T. D., & Batteson, T. J. (2013). Perceived changes in ordinary autobiographical events' affect and visual imagery colorfulness. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 461-470. doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.02.001

Ritchie, T. D., & Bryant, F. B. (2012). Positive mindfulness: A multidimensional model of state mindfulness in relation to positive experience. International Journal of Wellbeing, 2(3), 150-181. (open source link to full PDF)

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. doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2010.493066

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. doi.org/10.1080/09658210902791665

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. doi.org/10.1037/1053-0797.18.1.27

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. doi.org/10.1080/15298860600591222