Cognitive Technology : Essays on the Transformation of Thought and Society

Preface 1(171) W. Richard Walker and Douglas J. Herrmann 1 The Potential of Cognitive Technology 5(15) Douglas J. Herrmann 2 Training College Students to Use Personal Data Assistants 20(13) W. Richard Walker and Reggie Y. Andrews 3 Remembering What to Do: Using Conventional and Technology-Based Aids to Facilitate Self-Reported and Actual Prospective Memory 33(18) Carol Y. Yoder and Douglas J. Herrmann 4 Why Do Cell Phone Conversations Interfere with Driving? 51(18) David L. Strayer, Frank A. Drews, Dennis J. Crouch, and William A. Johnston 5 Intrusive Technology: Bartering and Stealing Consumer Attention 69(20) Brad J. Sagarin, M. Anne Britt, Jeremy D. Heider, Sarah E. Wood, and Joel E. Lynch 6 Social Identity and the Self: Getting Connected Online 89(22) Katelyn Y.A. McKenna and Gwendolyn Seidman 7 Decision Making and Group Dynamics in the Virtual Office 111(19) Rodney J. Vogl, Chanda Simkin, and Sandra D. Nicks 8 What We Remember from television and Movies: Using Autobiographical Memory to Study Mass Media 130(19) Richard Jackson Harris, Jennifer M. Bonds-Raacke, and Elizabeth T. Cady 9 Minorities as Marginalized Heroes and Prominent Villains in the Mass Media: Music, News, Sports, Television, and Movies 149(23) Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Cheryl Taylor, and Janet Phillips 10 Digital Dangers: Identity Theft and Cyberterrorism 172(13) Stephen Truhon and W. Richard Walker 11 Cognitive Psychologists and Human-Technical Systems: Should We Choose the Red Pill? 185(22) Francis T. Durso and Catherine F. Hall About the Contributors 207(4) Subject Index 211(2) Name Index 213