Lisa Son
Professor of Psychology
Department
First Year Foundation, Psychology
Office
415F Milbank Hall
Contact
212-854-0114
lson@barnard.edu
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Lisa K. Son, Professor of Psychology, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2002. Her research and teaching interests include cognitive psychology, learning, and memory. Her most recent publication was a book written in Korean, on Metacognition (???? ???).
BA, University of Pennsylvania
MA, PhD, Columbia University
Human and animal cognition and memory
Metacognition
Optimal learning
“Metacognitive Control and Optimal Learning,” with L. K. Son and R. Sethi,Cognitive Science(2007).
“Transfer of Metacognitive Skills and Hint Seeking in Monkeys,” with N. Kornell and H. S. Terrace,Psychological Science(2007).
“Judgments of Learning: Evidence for a Two-Stage Model,” with J. Metcalfe,Memory and Cognition(2005).
“Metacognitive control: Children’s short-term versus long-term study strategies,”Journal of General Psychology(2005).
“Spacing one’s study: Evidence for a metacognitive control strategy,”Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and CognitionVol. 30, No. 3 (2004): 601-604.
“Serial expertise of rhesus macaques,” with H. S. Terrace and E. M. Brannon,PsychologicalScienceVol. 14, Issue 1(2003).
“The adaptive control of encoding and retrieval,” with Schwartz, B. L.,Applied Metacognition, B.L. Schwartz and T. Perfect eds. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2002)
“Metacognitive and control strategies in study-time allocation,” with J. Metcalfe,Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition(2002).
In The News
Professor Lisa Son Publishes New Research that Introduces Emoticons into the Prisoner’s Dilemma Experiment to Assess Cultural Differences in Game Play
August 25, 2022
Professor Lisa Son on the Psychology of Activism
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month this month, the professor of psychology discusses her personal tipping point into activism and the journey for the larger Asian American community.
May 17, 2021
Professor Lisa Son Publishes Paper on Hindsight Bias
April 16, 2021
Professors Robert Brotherton and Lisa Son Publish Paper on the Metacognitive Organization of Claims
March 26, 2021
Professor Lisa Son Publishes Paper on the Psychology of Failure
December 4, 2020
Break This Down: Professor Lisa Son on Her New Book, 'Metacognition'
Lisa Son, associate professor of psychology, gets in her own head about her new book and the metacognitive hurdles she jumped to learn how to type it in Korean.
August 27, 2019
Metacognition