James E. Cutting
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James Eric Cutting | |
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| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yale University |
| Years active | 1974 - 2024 |
James Eric Cutting is an American cognitive scientist and researcher. He is the Susan Linn Sage Professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Cutting has researched how the physical form and narratives of movies in American cinema have evolved over the years.[1][2] Cutting is also known for his research on the mere exposure effect, on navigation and wayfinding, and biological motion.[3]
Over the last four decades Cutting's research has revolved around various aspects of perception. He has conducted research on the perception of cinema, perception of depth and layout, and art and perception.[4] His research interests also include high and popular culture. He has published over 150 scientific papers and four books. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the editor of the journal Psychological Science.[3]
Cutting graduated with a BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969 and a PhD in psychology from Yale University in 1973. After completing his PhD, he taught at Yale and a year later, he went to Wesleyan University. In 1980, Cutting joined the Cornell faculty as an associate professor in the Psychology department. In 1977–78, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and in 1983-84 a visiting scientist at the Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory.[5]
Later career
While still teaching at Cornell, Cutting was a visiting scholar at University of Arizona, the University of Padova, the CNRS in Paris and the University of Trieste. He was the editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance from 1987 to 1993. In 1993, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. He used the grant to study the perception of depth and subsequently wrote, Perceiving Layout and Knowing Distances: The Interaction, Relative Potency, and Contextual Use of Different Information About Depth, a chapter in the 1995 book Perception of Space and Motion.[6]
Cutting was named the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Psychology in 2013. He served as the chair of the Department of Psychology at Cornell from 2011 to 2016,[5] and retired in 2020.
Cutting is a charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, and a fellow of Society of Experimental Psychologists, where he was also the chair from 2003 to 2004.[5]