School of Psychology
Experimental Psychology Research Labs
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Associate Professor |
Metacognition Lab: The Metacognition Lab is directed by Dr.%20Lin%20Agler%2C and the research focus includes metacognition in reading and math, metacognitive aging, personality traits in learning and cognitive self-assessments, risk self-assessments and risk action, and gender stereotyping. Current Funding: 2022 Coastal Operations Faculty Development Award. Project title: The Role of Scientific Reasoning, Cognitive Reflection, and Probabilistic Risk Estimation in Health-Related Action Assessments: Increasing Health Resilience in Our Coastal Community ($3,000). |
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Associate Professor |
Experimental Health Lab: is directed by Dr. Tammy Greer and focuses on the impact of environmental factors on psychological processes and the relationship between psychological processes and health behaviors with an emphasis on the mitigation of health disparities, especially among minority populations. |
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Professor |
Perception Action Cognition Lab: Dr. Hajnal and the use virtual reality technology to examine the interplay of perception and action in everyday perceptual and motor skills. These skills are referred to as affordances, i.e. possibilities for action that are available to organisms involved in a variety of everyday actions such as walking, stepping, reaching, grasping, jumping, catching, to name a few. State-of-the-art motion tracking equipment is used to capture and record body movements to complement perceptual measurements Current Funding: Current Funding: 2022-2023 Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award ($3,500). Project title: 鈥淭he Affordance Project: Construction of a Database of Objects and Their Uses for Behavioral Researchers 鈥� (co-PI with Dr. Mark Huff) |
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Assistant Professor |
Recognition and Metacognition (RAM) Lab: The RAM lab is directed by Dr. Andrew%20Huebert and focuses on topics related to memory and cognition. We tend to focus on the cognitive processes that precede or occur in the absence of memory for specifics. This includes processes such as familiarity-based recognition, feature matching, feature significance, d茅j脿 vu, tip of the tongue, partial recollection, illusory recollection, illusory prediction, memory search, and curiosity. |
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Associate Professor, Training Director for Experimental Psychology Program |
The Memory, Attentional Control, & Aging Lab: is directed by Dr.%20Mark%20Huff. Research in this lab includes areas such as (1) false memory, especially in the context of eyewitness suggestibility paradigms, (2) distinctiveness encoding and the memorial benefits (and costs) that follow encoding tasks, (3) the role of individuals differences in attention and its relation to memory performance, and (4) the cognitive differences between older and younger adults, with the goal of mitigating age-related declines for older adults. Current Funding: Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment. Project Title: 鈥淓valuating the Contributions of Encoding and Retrieval Processes in False Memory Reduction in Younger and Older Adults鈥� ($4295). |
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Associate Professor |
Culture, Cognition, Values, and Well-being Lab: The is directed by Dr.%20Kenji%20Noguchi and focuses on various social psychological issues such as (1) cultural differences in social cognition and values, (2) psychological well-being especially on meaning in life, mindfulness, and coping styles, and (3) other social issues including political ideology, morality, and cognitive biases. |
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Associate Professor |
Evolutionary Social Psychology Lab: The is directed by Dr. Donald Sacco and focuses on the following research domains: (1) how motivational systems shaped by natural and sexual selection influence perception, attitudes and behavior; (2) the relationship between personality and social perception; and (3) strategies for promoting ethically sound research practices. Current Funding: 2017 鈥� 2018 Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award ($5,000); 鈥淚nterventions to Deter Questionable Research Practices;鈥� Role on Project: Co-Principal Investigator; Agency: Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity; Grant #: 1 ORIIR170035-01-00; Amount Award: $274,201; Period: 9/1/17 鈥� 8/31/19 |
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Associate Professor |
Social Cognition and Behavior Lab: The is directed by Dr. Elena Stepanova and focuses on the following domains: (1) social cognition, specifically (a) conceptualization of social categories and (b) effects of alcohol on social judgments; and (2) cross-cultural work, particularly explicit and implicit ethnic attitudes. |