Steve Mansfield
Department of Psychology, SUNY College at Plattsburgh

Research

My research primarily concerns the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in reading, particularly the dependence of reading performance on print size.

Google Scholar Citations

Publications

Recent conference presentations

Dunham, K., Hanrahan, K., Charette, L., and Mansfield, J. S. (November, 2019). Factor structure of undergraduate psychology students’ interest in school psychology survey. Poster presented at the annual conference of the New England Psychological Association, Manchester, NH, USA.

Mansfield, J. S., West, T. R., Dean, Z., and Carpenter, M. (May, 2019). Can typeface affect the meaning of words? Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, USA.

Hanrahan, K., Charette, L., Dunham, K., & Mansfield, J. S. (October, 2018). Understanding Psychology Students’ Interest in Graduate Training in School Psychology. Presented at the New York Association of School Psychologists Annual Conference, Lake Placid, NY, USA.>

Mansfield, J. S., West, T. R., and Dean, Z. (May, 2018). Is the critical print size for reading linked to letter recognition? Presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA.

West, T. R., Dean, Z., and Mansfield, J. S. (April, 2018). Fonts in movie titles. Can fonts affect the meaning of words? Presented at the Sigma Xi Symposium, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY. USA.

Dean, Z.,West, T. R., and Mansfield, J. S. (April, 2018). Linking letter recognition and the critical print size. Presented at the Sigma Xi Symposium, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY. USA.

Atilgan, N., Mansfield, J. S., & Legge G. E. (July, 2017). Impact of line length on reading performance for normal vision and simulated acuity reduction. Talk session presented at the Vision 2017 Conference, The Hague, Netherlands.

Mansfield, J. S., and West, T. (May, 2017). Can we use lexical knowledge to help identify words when letter recognition is difficult? Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA, USA.

Mansfield, J. S., and Lewis, A. (May, 2017). Computer-generated MNREAD sentences for measuring acuity and reading-speed: A comparison of Times and Courier.Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Atilgan, N., Mansfield, J. S. and Legge, G. E. (May, 2017). Comparing reading with classic versus computer-generated MNREAD sentences. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD, USA.

West, T. and Mansfield, J. S. (April, 2017). Can fonts affect the meanings of words? Presented at the Sigma Xi Symposium, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY. USA.

Gosselin, J., Rolon, V., Chong, E., and Mansfield, J. S. (March, 2015). Finding intuitive abbreviations for common words. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia , PA, USA.

Chong, E., Hanrahan, K., and Mansfield, J. S. (March, 2015). Does sentence context help us read small print? Presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia , PA, USA.

Gamam, S., Calabrese, A., Mansfield, J. S., and Legge, G. E. (September, 2014) Exploring Contrast-Polarity Effects in an iPad 3 Implementation of the MNREAD Acuity Chart. Envision Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Mansfield, J. S., and Hanrahan, K. (May, 2014) Context effects in reading depend on reading speed and print size. Vision Science Society annual meeting.

Calabrese, A., Gamam, S., Mansfield, J. S., and Legge, G. E. (May, 2014). Implementing the MNREAD Reading Acuity Test on an iPad3. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.

Dunham, K. T., and Mansfield, J. S. (October, 2013). I Know It And I’m Gonna Show It!: The Power Of Uncontrolled Intelligence. New England Psychological Association annual meeting.

Mansfield, J. S., Tifft, K., Lee, P N., Crocco, S., Wendling, J. (May, 2013). Using abbreviations to increase reading speed in low vision. Presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, Florida, USA.

Mansfield, J. S., and Creste, I. (March, 2011). Can abbreviations improve reading speed in low vision? Presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Dunham, K. T., and Mansfield, J. S. (October, 2010). Can we ignore our own knowledge? Presented at the Annual Conference of the New England Psychological Association, Burlington, VT, USA.

Mansfield, J. S., Duprey, D., and Barker, S. (May, 2009). The Effect of Context on the Critical Print Size for Reading. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Carpenter, K., Bopp, M., Castine. J., LeFevre, N., Lukowski, S., Mansfield, J. S., Bator, R. (May, 2009). The Immediate Effectiveness of Songs and Study Guides for Learning SAT Vocabulary. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Bator, R., Bopp, M., Carpenter, K., LeFevre, N., Mansfield, J. S. (May, 2009). The Long-term Effectiveness of Songs and Study Guides for Learning SAT Vocabulary. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Lukowski, S., Bopp, M., Carpenter, K., Castine. J., LeFevre, N., Lukowski, S., Bator, R., Mansfield, J. S. (Mau, 2009). Instructions Manipulating Social Norms and Message Framing Do Not Affect Student Plagiarism. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Mansfield, J. S. (May, 2006). Plagiarism Increases During the Semester, and Students Who Write More Copy More. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, USA.

Braje, W. B., Mansfield, J. S., Lent, A., and Pearson, L. (May, 2006). Reading Span for Small Print. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, USA.