Dr. John Marazita came to Ohio Dominican University in 1995 following a visiting professorship
at Muskingum College.
In graduate school, Dr. Marazita studied experimental psychology with a specialization
in cognitive development. His research addresses the development of metacognition
and its contribution to language acquisition. He has given conference presentations
and published several coauthored book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles
on these topics. His latest project, developed with support from a grant from the
Association for Psychological Science and the Siemer Family Foundation, promotes the
public understanding of psychological science through the Psychological Detective
Activity Box.
Dr. Marazita holds membership in the Society for Research in Child Development and
the Association for Psychological Science. He has served as chair of the Ohio Psychological
Association’s Science Committee.
At ODU, Dr. Marazita supervises undergraduate research in psychology and has taught
courses in the areas of human development, psychological testing and cognitive psychology.
He has served as the director of ODU’s Core Curriculum, the Honors Program, Chair
of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
Dr. Marazita is currently ODU's Provost and Chief Academic Officer.
Marazita, J. M. (2023, September/October). APS Teaching Fund Showcase: Psychological
Detective Activity Boxes. Observer, Association for Psychological Science. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/psychological-detective-activity-boxes
Matthews, V., Stough-Hunter, A., & Marazita, J. M. (2021). Attitudes towards social
distancing in response to COVID-19. Public Health Nursing, 38,1019-1029. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12954
Marazita, J. M., & Merriman, W. E. (2011). Verifying one’s knowledge of a name without
retrieving it: A U-shaped relation to vocabulary size in early childhood. Language
Learning and Development, 7, 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2010.496099
Marazita, J. M., & Merriman, W. E. (2004). Young children’s judgment of whether they
know names for objects: The metalinguistic ability it reflects and the processes it
involves. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 458-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2004.06.008
Merriman, W. E., & Marazita, J. M. (2004). Young children's awareness of their own
lexical ignorance: Relations to word mapping, memory processes, and beliefs about
change detection. In D. T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition
in adults and children. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
