Associate Professor

Bio

My main interests lie in the field of autobiographical memory with particular emphasis on false memories and how they pertain to family histories.  Through my research in New Zealand I identified a new type of memory error “disputed memories” which is now investigated by other memory researchers around the world.  My aim at Zayed University is to give students a scientific grounding about Psychology and to develop the students into top-class academics.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Joined ZU in 2009

Office

Dubai Academic City, AL2 37

Phone:

+971-4-402 1824

Email:

Teaching Areas

Introduction to Psychology
Social Psychology
Health Psychology

Research and Professional Activities

My research in primarily in the field of Social Psychology including false memories, self-fulfilling prophecies, confirmation bias as it applies to seeing images on the Shroud of Turin and how culture affects what we consider to be attractive in other people.

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:  

British Psychological Society

New Zealand Psychological Society

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Jordan, T. R. & Sheen, M. (Submitted 2016).  A Psychological Perspective on Perceiving Images of Objects on the Shroud of Turin.  Frontiers in Psychology.

Sheen, M., AlJassmi, M., & Jordan, T. R. (2016).  Teaching about Psychological Disorders:  A Case for Using Discussion Boards in the Classroom.  Teaching of Psychology.  34, 5-8

Sheen, M. & Jordan, T. R. (2016).  Believing is Seeing:  The Role of Psychological Processes in Perceiving Objects in the Shroud of Turin.  Archive for the Psychology of Religion.  38 (2) 232-251.

Jordan, T. R. & Sheen, M. (2015).  Seeing Inscriptions on the Shroud of Turin:  The Role of Psychological Influences.   PLoS ONE, 44 (8), 251-288.

Sheen, M. & Jordan, T. R. (2015).  Effects of Contextual Information on Seeing Pareidolic Religious Inscriptions on an Artifact:  Implications for the Shroud of Turin.  Perception, 1, doi: 0301006615607156.

Jordan, T. R., Sheen, M., Abedipour, L., & Patterson, K. B. (2014).  Visual Speech Perception in Foveal and Extra Foveal Vision:  Further Implications for Divisions in Hemispheric Projections. PLoS ONE, 9 (7), e98273.

Jordan, T. R., Sheen, M., & Al Jassmi, M. (2014).  A New Demonstration of the Illusory Letters Phenomenon:  Graphemic Restoration in Arabic Word Perception.  Perception, 44, 215-218.

Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. (2006).  Disputes over ownership.  What memories are disputed?  Genes, brain and behavior, 5 (S1), 9-13.

Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. C. (2004).   Twins dispute memory ownership: Discussions of a new false memory phenomenon.   In B. Robinson-Riegler and G. Robinson-Riegler (Eds.) (Eds.), Readings in cognitive psychology: Applications, connections and individual differences (pp. 120-130). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Kemp, S., Burt, C., & Sheen, M. (2003).  Remembering dreamt and actual experiences.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 577-591.

Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. (2001).  Twins dispute memory ownership: a new false memory phenomenon.  Memory and Cognition, 29 (6), 779-788.

Kemp, S., Sheen, M., & Rubin, D. C. (2004).   Disputed Memories in Twins.  Symposium on the Molecular Genetics of High Mental Functioning.