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Adam M. Croom, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist of language, music, and social cognition at UC Berkeley.
He’s teaching introduction to cognitive science (1B) and the cognitive science of language (144) this spring 2023 term and leading a research group that studies language, music, and social cognition.
Adam’s research uses behavioral and physiological measures (facial expressions, galvanic skin response) with mobile EEG (a 32 channel EPOC Flex) to study the experience of flow and chills from music and poetry. He also uses behavioral measures (response time, accuracy) with mobile EEG to study social stereotypes and the syntax and semantics of language and music.
Adam is Associate Editor of Philosophies, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Social Psychology, Guest Associate Editor of the Philosophies Special Issue on the Philosophy and Science of Martial Arts (2023), Guest Associate Editor of the Language Sciences Special Issue on Slurs (2015), and Guest Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Music and the Embodied Mind (2015). Adam is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Language and Discrimination and the Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture. and has peer-reviewed for the following scholarly journals:
- Acta Analytica: International Periodical for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition
- Acta Paediatrica
- Action Research
- Advances in Health Sciences Education
- Anthropology of Consciousness
- Applied Pragmatics
- Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing
- Armed Forces and Society
- Atlantic Journal of Communication
- Axiomathes: Where Science Meets Philosophy
- Basic and Applied Social Psychology
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Biosemiotics
- BJPsych Bulletin
- BMC Psychology
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science
- Cognitive Linguistic Studies
- Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
- Counselling Psychology Quarterly
- Criminal Justice and Behavior
- Current Research in Physiology
- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
- Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy
- Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
- Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy
- Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
- Experimental Aging Research
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
- Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
- Health Psychology Open
- Howard Journal of Communication
- Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
- Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
- Information Design Journal
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations
- International Journal of Multilingualism
- International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
- International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
- International Journal of Strategic Communication
- International Journal of Wellbeing
- International Sociology
- ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
- Journal of Adolescent Research
- Journal of Advanced Academics
- Journal of Applied Social Science
- Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
- Journal of Child Language
- Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
- Journal of Cognition and Culture
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
- Journal of General Psychology
- Journal of Humanistic Psychology
- Journal of Language and Discrimination
- Journal of Moral Education
- Journal of Music and Meaning
- Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Studies
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Journal of the American Philosophical Association
- Journal of Youth and Theology
- Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa
- Mass Communication and Society
- Media, War, and Conflict
- Mental Health, Religion, and Culture
- Military Psychology
- Mind and Language
- Musicae Scientiae: The Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
- Omega: Journal of Death and Dying
- Organon F: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
- Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Philosophical Psychology
- Philosophical Studies
- Political Psychology: Journal of the International Society for Political Psychology
- Pragmatics and Society
- Psychology of Music
- Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches
- SAGE Open
- School Psychology International
- Science and Education
- Society and Animals
- South African Journal of Philosophy
- Southern Journal of Philosophy
- Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
- Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
- Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
- Timing and Time Perception
- Visual Studies
- Western Journal of Communication
A verified record of his scholarly service is available on Web of Science.
Adam’s scholarly awards include two research fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-2012), two Elizabeth F. Flower prizes for best essay in philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (2009-2011), the Positive Studies Prize for best essay in positive psychology from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2013), the Elmaleh Prize for best essay in the social sciences from the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2010-2011), and the Military Veteran’s Scholarship from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans (2006-2012). He also received the Publons Sentinels of Science Award for Outstanding Peer Review (2016) and a Frontiers in Psychology Honoraria for Outstanding Editorial Contribution (2013).
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