Philip Marshall, Ph.D.

Research Interests

My current research interests span two distinct areas. The first is human-animal interaction. This includes basic phenomena of how and under what circumstances we bond with our pets or companion animals, and more specifically, what is the nature of cognitive processing of pet-related information. The second area is the study of the psychology of art, and what cognitive processing is involved in the creation, and appreciation of art.

Previously, I published widely in the areas of human motor performance, and in the broad area of human learning and memory.

   

Recent Publications

• Donet, J. R., Marshall, P. H., & Serra, M. J. (2025). The effect of learning strategies on offloading decisions in response recall. Memory & Cognition. https://doi-org.lib-e2.lib.ttu.edu/10.3758/s13421-025-01750-9
• Guthrie, M. F., & Marshall, P. H. (2024). How do I love thee? The five love attitudes people hold toward their pets. Human-Animal Interactions, 12(1).
• Briones, E. M., & Marshall, P. H. (2022)   The perception and effect of aggressive dog breeds on human social interaction. Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin. 13, 91-110.
• Briones, E. M., Marshall, P.H., & Mangano, S. (2022). Perceived aggressive tendencies of, and aggressive attitudes towards, selected breeds of dogs.Society & Animals. 10.1163/15685306-BJA10073
• Marshall, P. H. (2019) The Hoisington tape: An oral history of E. B. Titchener’s last years at Cornell (1921-1927). American Journal of Psychology, 132(4), 467-474.

Presentations

• Donet, J., Opdenaker, J., Marshall, P., & Scolari, M. (2026, November). Attention offloading is not uniformly beneficial: Evidence from a multi-dimensional discrimination task. Data Blitz talk to be presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Diego, CA.
• Donet, J., Opdenaker, J., Marshall, P., & Scolari, M. (2026, May). Attentional offloading during a multi-dimensional discrimination task. Poster presented at the Vision Science Society Annual Convention, St. Petersburg, FL.
  
• Donet, J. R., Russell, G., & Marshall, P. M. (2026, March). Investigating knowledge conflation with Generative AI as a function of collaboration. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Frisco, TX.
  
• Donet, J. R., Roth, K., & Marshall, P. H. (2026, March). I’ll look it up! Search term and keyword restrictions influence findability judgments. [Conference presentation]. Southwestern Psy
  
• Donet, J. R., & Marshall, P. M. (2026, March). Investigating knowledge conflation with Generative AI as a function of collaboration. Informal presentation at Women in Cognitive Science + Virtual Coffee Hour, Online.
• Donet, J. R., & Marshall, P. H. (2025, November). No problem, I can find it on the Internet!: Confidence in internet search as a function of search term. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society conference, Denver, CO.
• Donet, J. R., Marshall, P. H., & Serra, M. J. (2025, April). Predictors of epistemic metacognitive judgments in internet searches. In H. Martin (Chair), Who we are and what we know. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
  Vaughn, J., & Marshall, P. H. (2024). Perceived aggression is a salient encoding dimension of dog breeds. Poster accepted for presentation at the meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL
• Marshall, P.H., Ireland, M. E., & Dalton, A. (2015). Earliest memories of pets predict adult attitudes: phenomenological, structural, and textual analyses. Human- Animal Interaction Bulletin, 3 (1).
• Guthrie, M.F., Marshall, P. H., Hendrick, S. S., Hendrick, C, & Logue, E. (2018) Human love styles and attitudes toward pets. Anthrozoos. 31, 41-60.
• Briones, E. M., Marshall, P.H., & Mangano, S. (2022). Perceived aggressive tendencies of, and aggressive attitudes towards, selected breeds of dogs. Society & Animals. 10.1163/15685306-BJA10073
• Briones, E. M., & Marshall, P. H. (2022) The perception and effect of aggressive dog breeds on human social interaction. Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin. 13, 91-110.
• Briones, E. & Marshall, P. H. (2017) Perceived aggressive tendencies and functional attitudes towards various breeds of dogs. [Poster presentation] Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio.
• Mangano, S., Marshall, P. H., & Briones, E. (2018) Assessing evaluative responses to aggressive and non-aggressive breeds of dogs. [Poster presentation] Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston.
• Mangano, S., Briones, E.M, & Marshall, P.H. (2018). On the immediacy of evaluative information about aggressive and non-aggressive breeds of dogs from lexical decisions tasks.[Poster presentation] Psychonomic Society, New Orleans
• Marshall, P. H., (2019). Immediate responses to various breeds of dogs can effect human cognitive performance. [Paper presentation] International Symposium on Animal-Assisted Interventions. Republic of Korea Rural Development Administration, Institute for Animal Sciences, Jeunju, ROK.
• Briones, E. M., & Marshall, P. H. (2019). The automatic encoding of dog breed characteristics revealed in free recall. [Poster presentation] Southwestern Psychological Association. Albuquerque.
• Marshall, P.H., & Guthrie, M. (2022) Human-pet love styles predict satisfaction in the human-pet relationship. [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Francisco 
• Vaughn, J., Marshall, P. H. (2022). On the salience of perceived aggression and physical characteristics for various breeds of dogs. [Poster presentation] Psychonomic Society. Boston