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Dr. Scott Hinze
478-471-0652
Associate Professor
| Office Hours: | In person: T/TH, 10:45 -12:00 pm, 2:00-4:00, or remote by appointment |
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| Teaching and Research Interests: | Dr. Hinze is a cognitive psychologist with interests in memory and comprehension. His research focuses on how we apply principles of memory and comprehension to learning complex information. |
| Courses: | Fall 2025: PSYC 3002-Research Methods PSYC 3601-Cognitive Psychology PSYC 4001-Experimental Psychology PSYC 4100-Capstone Psychological Science Spring 2026: PSYC 3002-Research Methods PSYC 3401-Biological Psychology, in-person PSYC 3401-Biological Psychology, online PSYC 3999-Special topics (Human and Artificial Intelligence) |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | Dr. Hinze received his BA in Psychology from Hope College, in Holland MI He received his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| Professional Experience: | Prior to his arrival at MGA in the fall of 2018, he worked as a post-doctoral scholar at Northwestern University, and an assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University. |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | See all publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GMFp2ukAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Recent publications: Shen, S., Wise, A. F., Morris, W., Holmes, L., Hinze, S. R., & Crossley, S. (2026, April). The effects of AI feedback on college students’ reading and writing performance in an intelligent text framework. In LAK26: Proceedings of the 16th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. XX-XX). McCarthy, K. S., & Hinze, S. R. (2025). You've got some explaining to do: Effects of explanation prompts on science text comprehension. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1608-1620. McCarthy, K. S., Dahl, A. C., & Hinze, S. R. (2025). Do Explanatory Prompts Enhance Retrieval Quality of Science Text Content?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 1-13. Salovich, N. A., Donovan, A. M., Hinze, S. R., & Rapp, D. N. (2021). Can confidence help account for and redress the effects of reading inaccurate information?. Memory & Cognition, 49(2), 293-310. McCarthy, K. S. & Hinze, S. R. (2019). Assessment of explanation quality during retrieval practice using natural language processing tools. In Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK’19). Tempe, AZ. |
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