Bob Uttl, Mount Royal University

Research

aging encoding retrieval interactions individual differences motivation prospective memory

Latest papers

Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): obsolete norms identify psychopathology in nearly everyone.
PeerJ · 2025 · first author
Comparing incomparables: commentary on "measuring the frequency of inner-experience characteristics".
Frontiers in psychology · 2024 · senior author
Conflict of interest explains the size of student evaluation of teaching and learning correlations in multisection studies: a meta-analysis.
PeerJ · 2019 · first author

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Prospective Memory
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$168,000
Prospective Memory
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$20,000
Prospective Memory
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$135,000

All 3 grants and awards

11 publications.

01

Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): obsolete norms identify psychopathology in nearly everyone.

Uttl B, Sikma K, Tat M

PeerJ2025First author

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.20340 PMID: 41244202

02

Comparing incomparables: commentary on "measuring the frequency of inner-experience characteristics".

Brinthaupt TM, Morin A, Uttl B

Frontiers in psychology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1361110 PMID: 38440248

03

Conflict of interest explains the size of student evaluation of teaching and learning correlations in multisection studies: a meta-analysis.

Uttl B, Cnudde K, White CA

PeerJ2019First author

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7225 PMID: 31304067

04

Meta-analyses of positive psychology interventions: The effects are much smaller than previously reported.

White CA, Uttl B, Holder MD

PloS one2019

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216588 PMID: 31141537

05

Prospective memory, retrospective memory, and individual differences in cognitive abilities, personality, and psychopathology.

Uttl B, White CA, Cnudde K, Grant LM

PloS one2018First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193806 PMID: 29584735

06

Student evaluations of teaching: teaching quantitative courses can be hazardous to one's career.

Uttl B, Smibert D

PeerJ2017First author

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3299 PMID: 28503380

07

The numbers tell it all: students don't like numbers!

Uttl B, White CA, Morin A

PloS one2013First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083443 PMID: 24358284

08

Prospective memory, personality, and individual differences.

Uttl B, White CA, Wong Gonzalez D, McDouall J, Leonard CA

Frontiers in psychology2013First author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00130 PMID: 23525147

09

Transparent meta-analysis: does aging spare prospective memory with focal vs. non-focal cues?

Uttl B

PloS one2011First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016618 PMID: 21304905

10

Ceiling effects make Hughes and Nicholson's data analyses and conclusions inconclusive.

Uttl B, Morin A

Consciousness and cognition2010First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.05.012 PMID: 20541441

Prospective Memory

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Uttl, Bob

Keywords: prospective memory; aging; individual differences; encoding retrieval interactions; motivation

$168,000

Prospective Memory

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Development Grant

Principal investigators: Uttl, Bob

$20,000

Prospective Memory

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Uttl, Bob

$135,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: aging Dear Professor Uttl, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): obsolete norms identify psychopathology in nearly everyone." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Prospective Memory" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]