Activist, March 2012

Joshua Pritikin's Home Page at University of Virginia

I started graduate school at University of Virginia fall 2011. My area of concentration is quantitative psychology. My advisors are Steven Boker and Karen Schmidt.

I encourage you to visit my political activism page.

Substantiative Research Interests

• Positive & other areas of psychology
• Music Learning Theory

Current Research

I am currently working on a mental silence disposition scale (5 min). I would like to thank the following sites for listing my survey:

• Psychological Research on the Net
• Social Psychology Network
• The Web Experiment List
• In(quisitive) Mind

Degrees

• 2007-2009 University of Oregon, B.S. Psychology (honors)
• 1990-1992 Carnegie Mellon University (incomplete)

Publications

Pritikin, J. N., & Schmidt, K. (2013, March). A self-report measure for familiarity with mental silence. Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF

Pritikin, J. N. (2007). We ought to characterize dyadic prospects. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction: Doctoral Consortium, Lisbon, Portugal. PDF

Teaching Experience

Lab Teaching Assistant

• PSYC 4006 Intro Stats 2 (undergrad), Spring 2013
• PSYC 3006 Intro Stats 2 (undergrad), Fall 2012

Grader

• PSYC 3006 Intro Stats 2 (undergrad), Spring 2012
• PSYC 3005 Intro Stats 1 (undergrad), Fall 2011

Department Presentations

• 2013 Mar 28, A new implementation of Item Factor Analysis: Accuracy, flexibility, and speed (Quantitative Lunch) PDF
• 2012 Nov 01, Navigating the bowels of Marginal Maximum Likelihood: An expectation-maximization Item Response Theory estimation algorithm (Quantitative Lunch) PDF
• 2012 Apr 19, Is there a link between flow and meditation? (Quantitative Lunch) PDF
• 2011 Dec 05, Oscillation around non-stationary equilibria (Quantitative Lunch) PDF

Affiliations

• Gordon Institute for Music Learning (2011 - present)
• The Democracy Foundation (Secretary, 2009 - present)

Awards and Honors

2008-2009 Osher Reentry scholarship $4500

My Schedule

Contact

Office: 1023 Millmont St, Room 209B

Office hours (valid until May 2013):

• Fri 12-2pm @ Gilmer 183
• or by appointment

Mobile: 434-218-2280

E-mail: jpritikin@virginia.edu

Google Talk: jpritikin73@gmail.com

Skype ID: jpritikin

IOCOM: jpritikin@virginia.edu