Roger J. Kreuz

Roger J. Kreuz is an American cognitive psychologist and author. He is the Feinstone Interdisciplinary Rearch Professor and an Associate Dean at the University of Memphis.

Kreuz is known for his work on pragmatics, figurative language, miscommunication, and stylometry. He is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society, the Society for Text and Discourse, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Education Kreuz earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and in Linguistics from the University of Toledo in 1983. He went on to receive a Master of Arts in Cognitive Psychology in 1985, followed by a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1987 from Princeton University.

Career Kreuz worked as a research associate in the Department of Psychology at Duke University from 1987 to 1988. Between 1988 and 1993, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Memphis State University. In 1993, he was promoted to associate professor and became a full professor in 2000. He has held several administrative roles, including program director of the Master of Science in General Psychology from 2004 to 2014 and associate chair of the Department of Psychology from 2011 to 2014. Since 2014, he has worked as associate dean and director of graduate studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis. Moreover, he has also contributed articles to The Conversation and Psychology Today.

Awards and honors 2014 – Fellow, The Psychonomic Society 2020 – Fellow, The Association for Psychological Science 2020 – Fellow, The Society for Text and Discourse

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